I was told the following by a guy in central California who built his own little subdivision and put a bunch of double wide manufactured homes on 1 acre plots.

I was told the following by a guy in central California who built his own little subdivision and put a bunch of double wide manufactured homes on 1 acre plots. This was a pretty rural area. He said that he effectively couldn't find the labor to build even a semi high quality home in that rural of an area. He said anything they'd stick build in that area would be of lesser quality than a decent manufactured home due to lack of good contractor availability. He also said, and my understanding agrees, that once you bolt it to a foundation, all done per code, there isn't really a clean way to say it's anything other than a house. If the while thing is made to code, meets the national and local building codes, is mounted to a code meeting foundation and utilities, it's a house. This applies to manufactured homes built as such, not things like travel trailers or destination trailers which people often conflate with true manufactured homes. Rvs amd destination trailers, things that never go off their wheels and often have lattice or other wood skirting around their base to hide the wheels and frame are regulated by RVIA amd meet their codes, not the national building codes. True manufactured homes meet the national and local building codes, it's just the assembly location is different.