The Exeter Times-Advocate, 1975-06-26, Page 103 A
Side entrance to model mobile home
Aged under 35 years occupy
majority of mobile homes
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Times-Advocate, June 26, 1975
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Surveys in the United States
have indicated that in 50 percent
of the families occupying mobile
homes the head of the household
is under 35 years of age, while 20
percent are over 50 years of age,
Available demographic data
indicates that until 1981 at least,
the percentage growth of these
age groups will be considerable.
They represent respectively the
post war baby boom and a
growing number of retired
people,
As those born in the period 1946-
1961 become old enough to
require separate housing they
will effect a considerable in-
crease in the demand for ac-
commodation during the period
1966-1981. As a result, the
number of households with a
head aged 15-34 will amost double
between 1966 and 1981 while those
with a family head of over 65 will
increase by close to 50 percent. It
was estimated in 1966 that a total
of 210,000 housing units must be
produced annually in Canada
until 1981 in order to meet in-
creased demand, to make up for
demolitions and cope with a
reduction in, the doubling up of
households.
The production for 1967 and
1968 was 149,242 and 170,993 units
respectively. The total number of
housing starts in 1969 was 210,000
units, although a reduction is
expected for 1970.
Factory built homes of a
traditional nature, modular
systems built units or renewed
activity by conventional
developers may eventually
respond to this demand as
market conditions change. New
forms of tenure, financing, a
greater availability of money at
lower interest rates, may be
reflected by renewed con-
struction activity and lower
costs.
Some people seeking ac-
commodation have incomes too
low for them to compete suc-
cessfully in the conventional
housing market and earn more
than families who have access to
subsidized accommodation, and
for this reason may consider the
purchase of a mobile home.
Howeverstatistics from the U,
S. and ob-servations of Canadian
trends would indicate that those
buying mobile homes today
choose them for their positive
qualities and are not driven to
this form of shelter as a final
resort, Even though single family
houses, doubles or town houses
are boyond their means, most
mobile home owners could have
rented an apartment.
Given the choice between an
apartment and a mobile home,
they have selected the latter,
'which is normally fully fur-
nished, compact, easy to
maintain and in spite of a
relatively high down payment
and monthly costs for seven to
ten years, hold out the promise of
low cost shelter once they are
paid for.
These characteristics appear
to appeal to young families and to
people who have retired, both of
whom may not wish to enter into
long term financing, and to
families whose older children
have left home and who con-
sequently desire a smaller home.
These factors should
favourably influence the growth
of the mobile home industry
within the next ten years. It could
also be enhanced by an increased
use of the mobile home as a
second home or cottage, and as
interim housing in areas subject
to (population shifts or rapid
economic development.
The industry's apparent
capacity for a rapid increase in
the rate of production of mobile
homes on a large scale has not
been fully utilized, due to thg
restriction on demand caused by
a lack of sites for the develop-
ment of mobile home parks in
those areas where they are most
urgently required. At present
there is a .widespread reluctance
on the part of municipalities to
release or zone land for mobile
home park development, par-
ticularly in the inner
municipalities of urban areas.
If there is no improved supply
of sites the park developers may
face an uncertain 'future and
expansion-will likely be slow. At
the moment many parks are
filled and park operators must
maintain waiting lists or turn
away prospective tenants who
consequently are forced to
postpone the purchase of a
mobile home.
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Mobile Home Express
Whatever happened to the old
trailer parks — the ones with no play-
grounds, landscaping or other amen-
ities? They're not completely gone, but
they're definitely going, and it's all
because the mobile home has come
of age in Canada.
In fact, the word "mobile" is a bit
of a misnomer, one the industry wishes
'it could quietly bury. The operative
word should be "home." Because the
housing now coming from Canada's
mobile home manufacturer is mobile
only in the sense that it is towed to
the site by a tractor-trailer. There it is
positioned onto a generally perma-
nent foundation, and moved only when
the family moves. And that, according
to a study done for the Canadian Mo-
bile Home and Travel Trailer As-
sociation, is no more frequently than
every five years on the average.
Today's mobile homes are an
entirely new category of housing—and
the "parks" designed to receive them
are, if anything, better designed than
traditional subdivisions spawned by
years of pent-up housing demand fol-
lowing World War II. And there is
beginning to occur an explosion ,of
interest in mobile housing, backed
again by pent-up demand for low-cost
housing, and government interest In
providing it, The product is "ready."
Only a few days ago, in announcing
the government's first-ever financial
support for a mobile home park (Sandy-
cove Acres, a Prestigious but inex-
pensive new development 40 miles
northwest of Toronto) Robert Andras,
Minister Responsible for Housing,
indicated the extent of changed Cana-
dian official thinking about the once
lowly mobiles.
"I am happy to be able to confirm
the federal government's willingness
to underwrite this endeavor," said Mr.
Andras.
"I recognize, as I am sure many
others do, the widespread interest
in Canada in the mobile home. Accep-
tance of this life-style has gained
rapidly in recent years. At the same
time, the vehicular concept of the
mobile home has changed so that
today, in ever increasing number, units
are being permanently located on land
as inexpensive single-family houses.
"As we interpret it, the mobile
home has evolved from a vehicle to a
form of systems building representing
a manufactured unit. When properly lo-
cated on an appropriate site in a suit-
able subdivision, the product provides
a satisfactory form of permanent
housing," said Mr. Andras,
That mobile homes are now ac-
cepted as a life-style could well be an
understatement. A recent magazine
article called them the "first style of
architecture indiginous to North Amer-
ica." However that may be, CMHTTA
statistics show that nearly a fifth of all
mobile homes now owned were built
within the last two years, and some 34
per cent were bought within the same
time period.
New mobile home parks are now
under way or planned in nearly every
province in Canada — especially in the
'big market areas of Ontario and
Quebec. Ottawa's Fringewood Village
(above right) is just one already ex-
isting example. All give ample evidence
of careful design and layout by plan-
ners, developers and landscape ar-
chitects, The $7,000,000 Sandycove
Acres, four years in the making, shows
how serious developers are becoming.
With increased municipal and provincial
understanding of the fact that mobile
home parks need not be synonymous
with instant trouble, the way could
be open for a massive increase in mo-
bile housing projects, and a comple-
tely new style of virtually maintenance-
free housing.
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