A list of manufactured home industry attendees at the recent Fannie Mae Duty to Serve (DTS) meeting in Washington, D.C. included the name of Tom Heinemann. As regular MHProNews readers know, Heinemann and Lois Starkey both quietly left the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI). ‘Quietly,’ that is, in terms of MHI’s […]
“The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.” [George Orwell, per Goodreads] “Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even
Remarks from legal professional and zoning expert Daniel R. Mandelker, J.D., help frame the more detail insights that follow from Harry J. Abramson. MHProNews and MHLivingNews previously reported remarks by pro-manufactured housing zoning law expert and land use professor Mandelker who said: ‘Statutes Should Prohibit Restrictive Zoning Standards for Manufactured Homes’
If something is worth saying it is worth saying multiple times. MHProNews previously reported what ought to be a rallying cry for independent HUD Code manufactured home producers when Frank Rolfe said: “in fact, most of the mobile home [sic] sales in the U.S. are from park owners who will
“A combination of limited land, home building regulations, international and out-of-state demand, and its remote location makes Hawaii the most expensive state to buy a home in. It is the only state with a house price-to-income ratio above 10 and the only state with a median home price higher than
‘Sherry Chris Joins National Association of REALTORS® as Independent Consultant and Special Advisor to CEO Nykia Wright.’ In case you missed it (ICYMI), it is now a new year. How will 2025 differ from 2024? Time will tell, but here in MHVille – the diminished version of the once far
The federal preemption and CrossMods related parts of the headline with respect to Champion Homes are addressed in Part II. But first up is the switch in leadership at Champion (SKY) from Mark Yost to Timothy Larson. According to WallMine on April 2, 2024 — “Mark Yost is 47, he’s been
The Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) has issued a significant update to their “Major and Continuing MHARR Accomplishments for the HUD Code Manufactured Housing Industry and Consumers of Affordable Housing” website page. That update is found in Part I of this article. Part II of this article includes
“Rachel Siegel, who works on housing policy at the Pew Charitable Trusts,” said: “People think about the old dilapidated mobile home of yore, and as a result, manufactured housing has been zoned out. It’s relegated to the outskirts—parks and communities that are sometimes in flood zones or undesirable parts of
The initial manufactured housing state association list below is per the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) (manufacturedhousing.org, mfghome.org). It will be followed by state associations that MHI failed to list. These are presented in the context of the quiet- to stormy-debate over the need for a new national trade association. That
