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You can buy a piece of land and put a trailer on it -- cheaper than a camper/RV if you don't plan to move it.
But it's got some drawbacks.
My sister did that for a while, but if you don't have a house on a foundation, at least where she was, you also didn't have a postal address, so you can't get mail or packages. IIRC also couldn't get an electrical hookup to the grid (though if you're far enough out in the boonies, that point may be moot anyway).
The bigger problem is, at least in the US, not the price of land. Land is cheap. The problem is land near desirable jobs.
If I were going to live somewhere and wanted to minimize housing costs and I had no location constraints, I'd probably choose a city or town which has seen population outflow, which lowers housing prices. Then you still get municipal water, sewer, access to the electrical grid, maybe natural gas service, stuff like snow clearance from roads, high-speed Internet service, nearby stores and amenities, etc. Lot of stuff that one takes for granted if living in a developed area.
I used downtown Huntington, WV, as an example in a previous comment:
https://www.zillow.com/huntington-wv/?searchQueryState=%7B%22pagination%22%3A%7B%7D%2C%22isMapVisible%22%3Atrue%2C%22isListVisible%22%3Afalse%2C%22mapBounds%22%3A%7B%22west%22%3A-82.460912051591%2C%22east%22%3A-82.39087420979412%2C%22south%22%3A38.37258334248018%2C%22north%22%3A38.45369011178824%7D%2C%22usersSearchTerm%22%3A%22Huntington%2C%20WV%22%2C%22regionSelection%22%3A%5B%7B%22regionId%22%3A12012%2C%22regionType%22%3A6%7D%5D%2C%22filterState%22%3A%7B%22sort%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3A%22globalrelevanceex%22%7D%2C%22ah%22%3A%7B%22value%22%3Atrue%7D%7D%2C%22mapZoom%22%3A13%7D
holy telemetry, that's a long link.
Maybe this is state dependent? I have visited many trailer parks that have natural gas and electricity.