Its a city with some pretty major crime issues, a decaying manufacturing base etc.in 1970 Stl, Had 622K people, it is at 319K in 2010, and hearing it might drop below 300 in the next census.I just don't think its a place I would want to be investing without being experienced in the city.

Check with a local manufactured home dealer that does land home packages-they will know, as will the local building inspector!

An electrical surge once in 2014 caused major damage at a previous employer's manufacturing plant when a single plugged in phone in the shop caused a fire.

These mostly revolve around manufacture of controlled substances or manufacture or sale while in, or from, public housing. 

Manufactured / modular green homes are affordable and commonplace in Joshua tree.

Just raw land for example drops by about 10X from property on/near lakes like Torch and in tourist towns, to a few miles down the road, or the next town over..Houses IN my town for example, including property, are worth less than it would cost to build one, or even put a decent manufactured house.. 

The manufacturer makes the product and sells to a wholesaler at a certain price , the wholesaler sells it to retail outlets at a markup and the retail outlet marks it up even further.  

All that being said, we now have manufacturing jobs in this high cost living SFBA.

Yet just because we look for the value, we eat healthier than most everyone we know, at a cost lower than most people who buy manufactured crap!

And if one states that drug distribution, manufacturing, arson type offences are not acceptable it would be easy to show that that type of activity could destroy property.