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Frontier Housing, www.frontierhousing.org, is exploring the launch of a new business as a nonprofit distributor of manufactured homes to other housing nonprofits across the nation.

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Please complete this survey by September 25, 2009.
Help us gauge interest in Manufactured Housing Done Right!™ and ask the questions you may have about it. Your answers will be used to improve our business planning and will be shared with our social venture partners.

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Why would your nonprofit benefit from participation?
Partnering with Frontier will minimize your manufactured housing learning curve; focusing your nonprofit on how to access high quality building technology. It will simplify your housing development process. It will improve customer satisfaction and shorten the timeline to get people into their new homes.

At Frontier, we believe that when the right steps are taken to ensure quality homes and fair financing, factory-built housing is a good, viable, marketable, energy efficient and affordable housing solution. We have homes that appeal to working families* and more modest homes that are accessible to some of the lowest income families* in our service area. Thirty five families already live in homes built with our quality standards. They agree; their homes are Manufactured Housing Done Right!™.

Frontier is distributing high-quality manufactured homes to nonprofits nationwide to serve their local customers.

Frontier will train and assist housing nonprofits so the manufactured homes purchased by their customers appreciate in value and build financial security. The new venture will serve as an aggregator between local nonprofits and Clayton Homes to secure volume discounts and ensure the homes meet the broadest federal and state funder requirements for down payment assistance, grants and mortgages.

Frontier Housing has teamed up with Clayton Homes to create an innovative and special line of homes to meet the specific requirements of nonprofit housing providers and the customers they serve. Through this strategic alliance, Clayton, the leading home manufacturer in the nation, and Frontier will build the first ever national distribution channel of nonprofit manufactured home builders. Frontier’s special line of Clayton Homes is ENERGY STAR rated, meets the requirements of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and USDA Rural Development and also meets the Design Standards of Kentucky Housing Corporation’s Universal and Minimum Design.

Manufactured Housing Done Right!™
This system for doing business includes:

• Prepared and supported homebuyers through quality certified homebuyer programs.
• Quality made and set homes on FHA Title II Permanent Foundations.
• Transparent and total pricing to the nonprofit and ultimately to the customer.
• Sustainable financing, mortgages with fair terms that enable families to earn wealth or preserve assets.
• “A Home is a Home” policy commitment advocating that owners of manufactured homes have the same rights as owners of site-built homes.
• An ENERGY STAR solution that benefits everyone in your community by eliminating the worst energy violators on the grid.
• Training your local construction crews in a new building methodology, adding to their long term viability in the job market.

Frontier Housing, www.frontierhousing.org, an affordable housing nonprofit for 35 years in Eastern Kentucky, builds and develops single and multi-family housing. Frontier, an Exemplary Organization in the NeighborWorks® Network, has become the largest residential builder in their service area and the largest nonprofit builder in Kentucky. Further, we have a track record of ensuring sustainable homeownership with a low foreclosure rate of less than 1%. Frontier has proven that when quality products are coupled with responsible lending, low-income families can be successful homeowners. Frontier trains and provides technical assistance to other nonprofits so they may effectively use Frontier’s delivery system for providing quality manufactured housing to homebuyers.

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