mobile homes

Dwellings on wheels

Mobile homes are prefabricated housing units built in factories and transported to sites, typically on permanent chassis with wheels.

Despite the name, most mobile homes are placed on a lot and never moved again.

The term often carries class associations—mobile home park, trailer park—though manufactured housing has improved considerably.

Many jurisdictions now prefer "manufactured home" as the official term.

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permanence/foundation type

mobile homestraditional houses

Culturally rooted residential structures

brick houses · stone houses

housing status/prestige

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Large, stately houses

estates · luxury homes · McMansions · stately homes · manor houses

density and housing type

mobile homeshigh-rise apartments

Multi-story residential buildings

skyscrapers · apartment buildings · condominiums · tenements · housing projects

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Known to kids · Mostly American · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G