Sales of manufactured housing have risen 34 percent this year in Ohio, says Tim Williams, Executive Director of the Ohio Manufactured Homes Association. According to what mydaytondailynews tells MHProNews, last year’s sales of manufactured homes homes increased by the greatest number in 22 years, rising 28 percent. In 2009 sales bottomed out at 596 homes, down from a high of 8,017 in 1998. Census data reveal four percent of the housing in Ohio is manufactured homes. Williams says a lot of the new sales are being reported in the Utica Shale area in eastern Ohio where energy companies are drilling for oil and gas, as we reported here July 11, 2012.

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