One thing we never lost was culture, we are seeing a massive renaissance in our communities across the entire Greater Cleveland Area.Yes, we have amazing infrastructure stretching from anchor facilities such as major medical systems with integrated learning and university elements, public transportation, family friendly, arts, sciences, manufacturing, easy highway access, coastal neighborhoods, new modernized port facilities, mining, fortune 500 companies and much much more.  

George Allen can help direct you to new home manufacturers that specialize is what is called "Community Series Homes" and has other knowledge and expertise for community owners.

Then I moved on to manufactured homes. 

I´m not familiar with any service that tells you the proportion of multi-families vs single families vs townhomes vs manufactured homes in a particular area - that just comes down to local knowledge.I´m based overseas so do most of my research remotely as well, but as @Michael Haynes alluded to above, you really need boots on the ground to be successful.

Tread lightly on assuming the the legislative bodies, MH manufacturers, MH dealership networks, et.al. will sit around idly waiting for someone to come along and try to replace MH's in MHC's with anything other than MH's.

The modular manufacturer if you can find one to build what you want probably won't care.

Intel is a great example, who is building the largest chip manufacturing plant in the US right here, and it will be a $20 billion dollar investment that brings a few new thousand jobs.https://www.dispatch.com/story/business/2022/01/21/intel-ohio-building-computer-chip-factories-licking-county-jersey-township/9173472002/ Another example of economic growth is the upcoming Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center Inpatient Hospital which is a 1.9million square foot hospital that will bring over 800 new beds and a thousand new jobs. https://abc6onyourside.com/news/local/new-osu-hospital-expected-to-transform-health-careHere are a few more recent investments https://www.10tv.com/article/money/business/hydrogen-power-company-hyperion-bringing-700-jobs-to-columbus/530-25907aab-5517-4661-a9f3-d2ed2d5be6b0 https://news.wosu.org/news/2022-02-08/rumpke-to-build-50-million-recycling-facility-in-columbus Check out The Complete Guide to the Columbus, Ohio Real Estate Market which goes through the Columbus, Ohio market in depth and will give you a better scope of where the highest levels of growth are taking place and where to look to invest.

I know there has been some consolidation in the industry so you have some various brands made by fewer manufacturers.

Will you have issues with the manufactured home certificates?  

Cleveland, Toledo, Dayton, Cincinnati and Columbus all have affordable real estate markets that are largely driven by local economic conditions and the health of the city's manufacturing industry.