Industry News
Inductees
2022 RV/MH Hall of Fame
MANUFACTURED HOUSING INDUCTEES
David J. Carter Sr. - Supplier, Florida
Harry Karsten - Manufacturer, California
Dave Carter in 1986 sold a lumber yard and an
Harry Karsten built The Karsten Co. and Karsten
electrical supply business to concentrate on Dave
Homes into a West Coast powerhouse. It was
Carter & Associates, supplying the electrical and
founded in 1995 and built its workforce to more
building product needs of the manufactured
than 700 people, including a couple hundred at
housing industry. In three years he took DCA from
the homebuilding facility at its plant near Mather
a regional provider to a national supplier with a
Airport in Sacramento. The company expanded
dozen distribution centers. In 1993 the business
from California to other homebuilding sites in Al-
added plumbing products, diversified into RV
buquerque, N.M., Stayton, Ore., and Breckinridge,
in 2008, and helped rebuild the manufactured
Texas. At the time it was purchased by Clayton in
housing industry during its 15+ year recent era of
2005, the facilities were putting out better than
growth. DCA was named MHI Supplier of the Year
1,700 homes a year in 14 states in the West and
in 2011, and Dave Carter continues to advocate
central United States.
for affordable housing on the local, regional, and national levels. 14 | JANUARY / FEBRUARY 2022 EDITION
