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Program Purpose

The purposes of the Factory-built Housing Program are to ensure the health and safety of persons using or purchasing factory-built homes (FBH) or FBH building components, and to provide California residents with reduced housing costs through mass production techniques resulting from a factory production environment. In order to achieve these purposes, the following activities are conducted by the Department pursuant to the Health and Safety Code, commencing with Section 19960:

• Promulgation of regulations.
• Plan-check of FBH designs through Department-approved Design Approval Agencies.
• In-plant inspections of FBH through Department-approved Quality Assurance Agencies.
• Insignia of Approval issuance and record-keeping.
• Application review for eligibility to act as a Design Approval Agency and perform plan checking on behalf of Department.
• Application review for eligibility to act as the Quality Assurance Agency or Quality Assurance Inspector and perform in-plant inspection on behalf of the Department.
• Monitoring of Design Approval and Quality Assurance Agencies, Quality Assurance Inspectors and local building departments.
• Complaint handling and investigations.