With zoning restrictions being lifted in many areas of the country, allowing alternative housing options to fill in vacant lots, ADUs, container homes, and even tiny homes are beginning to show up to fill the affordable housing gap.
One type of home that only recently began to show up is Cross Mod manufactured homes.
A Clayton CrossMod® home on display at the RV/MH Hall of Fame is now open to visitors. The home represents a modern housing solution for individuals and families amid the ever-growing affordable housing crisis. Clayton, a national home builder, offers beautiful, attainable homes, like the one on display, that feature a variety of unique styles and energy-saving home options.
The Clayton CrossMod home, along with two other off-site built houses, are part of a new 21,000-square-foot Manufactured Home Museum expansion. The new wing is dedicated to showcasing the industry’s history and the innovations yet to come. It features interactive displays and the opportunity to tour three off-site built homes.
“CrossMod homes are built off-site like manufactured homes and are an affordable, sustainable solution to today’s housing crisis and can be built more efficiently than traditional site-built homes,” said Kevin Clayton, CEO. “More consumers, lenders, appraisers, and zoning officials are realizing the benefits of building a home indoors – and when visitors walk through this CrossMod home, they will see just how indistinguishable it is from any other beautiful, modern house.”
The Cross Mod home on display is the Hawthorne floor plan. CrossMod homes blend off-site construction methods with on-site features and design to produce an affordable home on a permanent foundation that looks and performs like a site-built house.
In addition, Cross Mod homes can be financed like site-built homes and appraised using site-built comps. These new homes can help expand zoning opportunities, where manufactured housing has not been previously allowed as a housing solution, mostly due to outdated stigmas. They are an example of how the industry continues innovating the building process to help even more individuals and families achieve the dream of homeownership.
