The Mansion is Dead – Long Live the Mobile Home

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CBS gets it.

Another unbiased report from a well known media giant makes the case for mobile homes. The mobile home stereotype is slowly fading!

The Mobile Home Stereotype

The mobile home stereotype is unfair and unjust. You know it and I know it – now it’s time for the rest of the world to catch on. Judging people based on the type of home they live in is childish and those that hang on to stereotypes are ignorant of the facts.  As the report proves even millionaires live in factory built homes and in mobile home parks – proving that we aren’t all poor, uneducated hillbillies.

A big thanks to CBS for representing our homes in a positive manner.  I’m thankful the reporter saw through the mobile home stereotype and was able to see the structures for what they truly are – home to millions of people. Just home.

 

 

PS The only ‘error’ that I found in this report is the use of the term mobile home (and trailer) instead of manufactured home but that’s really a ‘made up’ or rather a make believe error. Technically, mobile home is used to describe a factory built home manufactured before July 1, 1976 and manufactured home is a structure built after that date. The industry decided it would use the new laws mandated by Congress to help reinvent itself. Personally, I think it was a big mistake and they have been focusing on a losing war. Our homes will always be referred to as mobile homes – it’s a term ingrained into society and it’s not going to go away. If the industry would stop trying to reinvent itself every decade and embrace its history (mistakes and all) the fight against the stereotype and biased media would be much easier. You can’t expect people to stop using a well-established word just because you want to shed your own poor image. Instead of refusing to associate with the term ‘mobile home’ how about we embrace it, be proud of it and stand up for it?

As always, thank you for reading Mobile and Manufactured Home Living!