Yes, it’s building permits. It’s not that they’re too complex, it’s that they vary not just by state but municipally within states. The modern incarnation of a

Yes, it’s building permits. It’s not that they’re too complex, it’s that they vary not just by state but municipally within states. The modern incarnation of a low end manufactured home is a mobile home. They’re regulated like motor vehicles on a federal level. That’s why mobile home parks are zoned out of existence, to keep the poor out, same as maximum number of unrelated occupants or minimum lot sizes with maximum square footage making building anything but a luxurious single family home illegal.