The Berkeley Gazette from Berkeley, California • 25

Real Estate The INDEPENDENT GAZETTE Sun Feb 1 Law opens neighborhoods to manufactured housing Aesthetics have been improved with use of the same quality designs and construction materials employed for traditional housing Interiors frequently contain attractive paneling beamed ceilings and upgraded appliances and furnishings Exteriors are often clad with wood fiber Masonite brand sidings which permit wide varieties of colors textures and architectural themes Local governments are amenable to site-place manufactured homes because they can be taxed as real property This can provide millions of dollars of additional income to cities and townships Snyder also noted that old stereotypes are being erased The metal boxes and trailer-hitch images of yesterdays mobile homes are giving way to manufactured housing with first-lme residential appeal Another change is recognition of price appreciation with a recent Wall Street Journal story reporting 6 to 12 annual resale price increases for this market A landmark California law will open neighborhoods to manufactured homes and heighten their role as a viable housing alternative Effective July 1 1981 the new legislation allows permanent placement of manufactured homes any neighborhood provided they are compatible with local architecture construction and building codes This development is expected to spur public acceptance of factory-built housing according to Howard Snyder president of the Western Manufactured Housing Institute It will broaden awareness of manufactured housings advantages namely affordability and aesthetics to the consumer and tax benefits to the community he said The lower sales price comes from controlled all-weather factory construction Homes are built on production lines to tight government quality control standards Termed affordable homes they offer buyers a real alternative to expensive stick-built housing This 2500-square-foot $88000 manufactured home from LCS Homes Inc features Cape Cod theme 2 bedrooms and library The down payment is sweat in this area project 11 Financing Open Saturdays and Sundays 11-5 Oak View est income Oakland families have found that sweat and muscle can salvage the American dream The 14 families are building their own homes cooperatively by committing 40 hours a week of their labor per family to the year-long construction process It amounts to a sweat-equity from the City of Oakland Comparable homes in the surrounding neat working class community of Elmhurst are valued at $79000 to $89000 The Oakland project could serve as a model for other communities The average price of a new single family home 1990 will be about $170000 and only one in 10 potential first-time By MARIA TAYLOR Pacific News Service OAKLAND It may no longer seem possible in todays inflated housing market to buy a three-bedroom home for $45000 especially in a high-price housing market like the San Francisco Bay Area But Bari and Mary Jane Howard and 13 other mod It hasnt been an easy task Both partners of each family work full-time at regular jobs and none have had previous construction experience Nevetheless since last August the families working under skilled supervision have halfway completed a row of three-bedroom single family homes on surplus land bought at bargain rates Homes Unique contemporary architecture enveloped by warm cedar Elegant interiors highlighted by hardwood floors tiles rich carpeting oak cabinets antique brass and masonry fireplaces Matchless details including wet bars greenhouse windows master bedroom fireplaces and professionally landscaped yards with graceful 20 foot Oak trees Distinctive three and four bedroom floor plans in split level and two story designs have been planned for luxury living Oak View homes provide the individuality prized by those who know the difference First 2 yrs based on a 30 year loan Intersection of flppian Way Kister Circle El Sobrante Call Mr Cattarusa or Mr Tfcuss 724-6330 buyers will be able to buy a home according to Robert Bannister senior vice president of the National Association of Home Builders When the American dream can only be attained by 10 percent of the firsttime buyers you have the seeds of a social problem" he told a recent convention A variety of possible solutions including shared equity mortgages cluster homes townhouses and outright shared home-ownership are surfacing to meet the situation Owner-built housing says Lonnie Dillard chair man of the Elmhurst District Community Advisory Board may not make a major dent on the housing demand but its important psychologically because it shows that ordinary people can pitch in together and help themselves The housing crisis is no longer a problem just for low-income' people Ban and Mary Jane Howard for instance have a combined income of $25000 But with the average price of a single family home the Bay Area hovering around the $100000 mark the Howards had been priced out of the new home market In a recent interview in the couples cramped one-bedroom central Oakland apartment Howard 31 recalled a year of frustration as the couple realized that lack of a downpayment would keep even a $40000 older home out of their reach Even looking for a fixer upper proved futile Housing prices Oakland are more line with the rest of the country compared with many parts of the affluent California market GRAND OPENING! fWmP t0f Disction Just 35 Minutes fillip'6 From San Francisco lake Highway 17 to Tennyson and exit east Turn left on Whitman and proceed to the models on the left For more information call 582-2700 Two homes also offer two-car garages cedar shake roofs and full fencing On The Carquinez Strait in Crockett Builder will pay all closing costs! 1 1 $78950 Enjoy maintenance free living in a luxurious condominium home surrounded by beautifully landscaped grounds in a perfect location Each home is quality constructed and has a wood burning fireplace ceramic tile entry kitchen garden window dishwasher ceramic tile counter top 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