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The article features the prototypical Desert House, a prefabricated house designed by Ron Radziner and Leo Marmol to launch their newly developed prefab and manufacturing business called Marmol Radziner Prefab. The house is located atop a sparse hill in Desert Hot Springs, a resort and retirement community near Palm Springs, California. The shell construction of the prefabricated home takes just three months in the factory while the site is being prepared.

This article focuses on a model home in Santa Monica, California which makes a case for prefabricated housing. Prefabricated housing has been around for a century Mail-order kits were sold for decades through Maddin and Sears, Roebuck, and modular homes remain the cornerstone of trailer parks everywhere. Almost from the beginning, avant-garde architects have been intrigued by prefabricated's design and cost-saving potential. INSET: GREEN PIECES.

The article reports on the opening of the Colony, a mobile-home park in Palm Springs, California, in October 1973. The 40 acres park can accommodate about 220 mobile homes each occupying a one fifth of an acre space. It charges a fee of 265 to 350 U.S. dollars a month. It is owned by real estate operator Arthur W. Carlsberg and the brainchild of California film producer Lewis Kerner. The private empire of Carlsberg will eventually control 350 million U.S. dollars in real estate. Some features of the park are provided.

The article presents a court case which granted the City of Los Angeles to require mobile home park owners, applying for conversion from tenant occupancy to resident ownership, to acquire permits under the California Coastal Act and Mello Act, in addition to complying with the Subdivision Map Act. The Supreme Court of California, affirming a previous decision of the Court of Appeal, decided that the latter map act does not repeal the requirements of the other two housing statutes.

Shares an experience living at a single-wide mobile home in California.

The article offers information on the recreational facilities offered by Campland, a camping area in Southern California. Campland is a 42-acre area capable of accommodating around 800 assorted trailers, mobile homes and just plain tents. It mentions that Campland provides television, Jacuzzi and a boutique to its campers. It further mentions that with a rent of 4-6 dollar, Campland does not provide any animal related activities but the main highlight is climbing the 88 feet observation tower.

The article presents a report on the impact of wildfires in Californa from catastrophe modelling firm AIR Worldwide in 2017. According to AIR Worldwide, insured losses from wildfires in California are probably to hit between $2 billion and $3 billion. In addition, losses from the Sulphur, Redwood, Atlas, Nuns, Pocket and Tubbs fires will be prevailed by residential claims as the fires destroyed mobile and residential homes, and destroyed automobiles and businesses.

The article reports on the thriving business of mobile homes in San Diego, California. Mobile homes are considered affordable according to real estate experts compared to traditional housing which is becoming a slow market. It is considered a strong alternative from traditional housing because of the expensive housing market in the area.

The article that Jeffrey Prang, an assessor in Los Angeles, County, California, has testified in support of a bill that could close a loophole in property assessment that allows structures built upon a mobile home chassis to be classified as a vehicle to avoid property taxes.

Reports on the San Diego County, California's Board of Supervisors' adoption of an ordinance which serves as a compromise in the debate over mobile home rent control. Presentation of ordinance details in last part of 1993; County's action as model for other jurisdictions considering rent control; Homeowner Bill of Rights as basis of ordinance.

The article focuses on the career of Lewis Kerner, a partner of Jules Dessin in the production of "Never on Sunday" and was Sam Goldwyn's executive talent director for years. It discusses how Kerner got his job with Goldwyn. Kerner's current business is building The Colony Park, a modular mobile-home club and the first trailer park for the affluent in Palm Springs, California.

The article presents tips from Andreas Stavropoulos, a nomad landscape architect based in Berkeley, California who lives in an Airstream trailer, on managing mobile spaces. It is noted that he only needs a chair for computer use due to the small space of the trailer. It states that the designer clips his plans to perforated steel siding when he is working. It adds that Stavropoulos found a long counter-top that makes a good drafting table, instead of purchasing a desk at an office-supply store.

The article focuses on actor Matthew McConaughey and his girlfriend Camilla Alves have moved to a beachfront mobile home in Malibu, California. The couple were living in McConaughey's Airstream trailer. McConaughey and Alves have decided to temporarily move in together, according to a mutual friend.

Reports on the role of manufactured homes in solving the housing crisis in California. Options according to the California Manufactured Housing Institute.

Reports that residents of the mobile-home park at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California have nowhere to go after an eviction notice was issued in 1998. Deadline of the eviction; Reasons for the decision to close the mobile-home park; Policy of the Air Force on mobile-homes.

Reports on news and developments in North County, California. Includes the defeat of the Proposition F which requires annual rents and cost-of-living increases for mobile home park owners; Gascard Inc.'s signing of a new contract with Sinclair Oil Corp. to provide fleet-fuel management for the latter; Inauguration of Tim T.L. Dong as the new president of MiraCosta College.

The article discusses the transporting of homes from the location where it was constructed to its place of dwelling, with a particular focus on the home owner Harry Mercer transporting of his house from Arcata, California to Eureka, California, through using a tugboat and a scow schooner. The relationship between the economic conditions of Humboldt County, California residents during the late 19th century and their house sizes is discussed.

The article features 62-year old jockey Mel Lewis of Pleasanton, California. Lewis, one of the few active athletes to have spanned six decades of competition, began his career in 1931 at Agua Caliente in Tijuana in Baja California as an apprentice. Aside from the Alameda County Fair in Pleasanton, Lewis also rides at Golden Gate Fields and at other Bay Area tracks. Lewis can be found in his mobile home on the fair grounds of Pleasanton playing with his grandchildren when he is not playing.

The article offers information on the Duppa Villa Mobile Home Sales established by Ron Wright in Madera, California in 1958. It notes that affordability has become the major reason of mobile homes' popularity in the 1960s. In addition, Wright has been consistent in improving his products and services along with his excellent customer care services.

The article focuses on the proposed regulation from the California Air Resources Board (CARB) to reduce the allowable levels of urea-formaldehyde emissions from composite wood products in California. The only exemption of the proposed rule is for products applied in mobile homes that are regulated by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. According to Jim Aguila, manager of CARB's substance evaluation section, the regulation is being developed under outdoor air authority. CARB is promulgating the regulation based on the positive effects for ambient air quality.

This article reports on the plan of the company Barclay Butera to give away its customized Airstream trailer in a raffle at a party in Los Angeles, California, on October 25, 2007. The trailer is being given away to benefit the Children's Action Network. It was originally designed as a green room for the Sundance Film Festival.

Reports on the purchase of a safety house trailer for fire safety education by the Alameda County firefighters in California. Expenditure of Fireman's Fund insurance company grant; Development of a fire weather database notification system to measure wind patterns, temperature and humidity in the East Bay hills area; Solicitation of donation from San Francisco Fire Department's Neighborhood Emergency Response.

Presents an article about producing a photograph to illustrate a story about a vote on a police-sponsored initiative making illegal to camp overnight in vehicles in Santa Monica, California. Identity of the subject used in the illustration; Impact of the illustration on the issue.