Courtesy of Jess Carpenter
- Mobile homes — a type of manufactured house — are a more affordable option for many.
- Jess Carpenter and her family are living in and renovating their mobile home in Sarasota, Florida.
- Housing advocates want to get rid of many regulations that bar manufactured homes from communities.
Jess Carpenter and her husband had never considered living in a mobile home when they moved to Florida from Baltimore, Maryland in April 2022. But after spending most of a year in a $3,000-per-month rental apartment in Sarasota while struggling to find an affordable house to buy in the area, they reconsidered their quest for traditional homeownership.