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Manufactured Home Project Draws Ire of Legislators, Constituents

By / November 24, 2015 / Advocacy, Communities, Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, People

Responding to a letter sent by Santa Barbara (Calif.) Mayor Helene Schneider regarding the Punta Gorda manufactured housing (MH) project, State Senator Hannah Beth-Jackson (D-Santa Barbara) and Assemblymember Das Williams (D-Carpinteria) released a statement indicating some displeasure with the project, according to noozhawk. Sen. Jackson, noting the importance of community …

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Modular Home Builders Try to Stimulate the Industry

By / November 23, 2015 / Advocacy, Business, Factory-Built Homes, home buyers, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Modular, Trends

In lieu of the drop in single-family modular home construction, modularhomecoach tells MHProNews a sizable gathering of factory owners and top management will meet for a Round Table in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania Dec. 3 to plan steps for reversing the downhill trend and improve public perception of modular homes. Modular homes …

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Sunday Morning Recap-Manufactured Housing Industry News Nov. 15-Nov. 22, 2015

By / November 21, 2015 / Advocacy, Business, Communities, Company News, Economy, Factory-Built Homes, Finance, home buyers, Legal, Legislation, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, Modular, RV, Stocks, Trends

What’s New in public focused Manufactured HomeLivingNews.com HUD Secretary Julian Castro praises Quality, Safe and Affordable Manufactured Homes From Condo to Upscale Manufactured Home Living – John & Joyce Walter, Oshtemo, MI – Inside MH Road Show Vide What’s New in Manufactured Housing Industry Professional News HUD Secretary Castro Lauds …

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Palo Alto Levying Millions on Manufactured Home Community for Closing

By / November 23, 2015 / Advocacy, Business, Communities, Company News, Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, mobile home, People

MHProNews published a story on October 18, 2013 reporting that the owners of California’s Buena Vista Mobile Home Park, the Jissers, were interested in selling the community of 104 homes for possibly over $30 million if their plan is approved by the city of Palo Alto, where the median home …

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HUD Secretary Castro Praises Manufactured Home Industry

By / November 23, 2015 / Advocacy, Economy, home buyers, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, People, Trade Shows

In a video address to the Manufactured Housing Institute’s (MHI) National Communities Council (NCC) Fall Leadership Forum, Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Julian Castro, calling HUD “The Department of Opportunity,” praised the manufactured home industry for “giving more families access to quality, safe and affordable housing.” The …

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CA County Issues Ordinance to Ban Manufactured Home Community Closure

By / January 16, 2016 / Advocacy, Business, Communities, Company News, Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, regulation, RV

The San Mateo County Board of Supervisors in California adopted an temporary urgency ordinance to prevent eight manufactured home communities (MHCs) from closing or converting for the next 45 days in an attempt to keep affordable housing available in the Bay Area. The Bay Area is one of the most …

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County may Amend Restrictive MH Siting Ordinance

By / November 16, 2015 / Advocacy, Business, Communities, home buyers, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, regulation, Zoning

Following a story MHProNews posted Nov. 13, 2015 regarding a new ordinance in Mojave County, Arizona that restricts siting of manufactured homes (MH) to no older than seven years, kdminer tells MHProNews the County Board of Supervisors will weigh a request from the Manufactured Housing Industry of Arizona to delay …

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Sunday Morning Recap-Manufactured Housing Industry News Nov. 1-Nov. 8, 2015

By / November 8, 2015 / Advocacy, Business, Communities, Company News, Factory-Built Homes, Finance, home buyers, Legal, Legislation, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, Modular, People, regulation, RV, Stocks, Trends

What’s New in public focused Manufactured HomeLivingNews.com From Condo to Upscale Manufactured Home Living – John & Joyce Walter, Oshtemo, MI – Inside MH Road Show Vide Olga Pecanac, Olga’s Place Pizza & Euro Restaurant, Westville, IN – U.S. Destination – Pure Fun! Reinventing HUD’s role in Quality Affordable Housing, …

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Modular Housing Offers Flexibility, Quick Housing

By / November 7, 2015 / Advocacy, Factory-Built Homes, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Modular, Trends

While the Housing and Planning Bill now working through Parliament in the United Kingdom has the intent of increasing the housing stock, the rising demand for housing calls for more radical activity to meet the need. As huffingtonpost.uk reports, the architectural firm of Rogers, Stirk, Harbour + Partners, which is …

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Re-Asserting HUD’s Affordable Housing Mission

By / November 6, 2015 / Advocacy, Business, Communities, Economy, home buyers, Legal, Legislation, Manufactured and Modular Housing News

Responding to House Financial Service Chairman Rep. Jeb Hensarling’s (R-TX) request for ideas on addressing poverty and home affordability, MHProNews and ManufacturedHomeLIvingNews publisher L. A. “Tony” Kovach documents HUD’s failure to promote manufactured housing as affordable housing. In Re-inventing HUD’s Role in Quality Affordable Housing, Kovach points out the percentage …

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Sprinkler Mandate in Maryland Dampening Home Building

By / February 17, 2016 / Advocacy, Business, Factory-Built Homes, home buyers, Legal, Legislation, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Modular, regulation

Updating a continuing story MHProNews last posted Oct. 9, 2015 regarding mandated sprinklers in new home construction in Maryland, modularhomecoach reports the legislation may have formed a rallying cry for on-site and off-site builders to join forces, and attempt to have the law rescinded. The regulation will cover manufactured homes …

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Fire Safety in the Modern Manufactured Home

By / November 2, 2015 / Advocacy, Business, Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, regulation

A report by the National Fire Prevention Association’s (NFPA) John R. Hall, Jr., entitled Manufactured Home Fires documents that manufactured homes (MH), built after 1976 when MH production fell under the dictates of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), are more fire-resistant than comparable site-built homes. The study …

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Sunday Morning Recap-Manufactured Housing Industry News Oct. 25-Nov. 1, 2015

By / October 31, 2015 / Advocacy, Business, Communities, Company News, Economy, Factory-Built Homes, home buyers, Legal, Legislation, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, Modular, People, Stocks

What’s New in public focused Manufactured HomeLivingNews.com Keeping the Home Fires from Burning: Fire Safety and the Modern Manufactured Home Robert Gann, Chet Murphree, Deer Valley Homebuilders, Guin AL – Inside MH Video Tours What’s New in Manufactured Housing Industry Professional News Quarter financials spike Cavco’s stock. MHARR, MHI respond …

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MHI Responds to Rep. Hensarling’s Request

By / November 5, 2015 / Advocacy, Economy, home buyers, Legal, Legislation, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes

In response to a request from House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling for ideas to address housing affordability and poverty, the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) offered constructive suggestions on improving regulations and programs that affect the manufactured home industry. In addition to shepherding H. R. 650, the Preserving Access …

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MH Industry Perturbed by NY State Administrative Agency Position

By / October 29, 2015 / Advocacy, Business, home buyers, Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, People

Prior to the opening of the NY Housing Association’s 65th annual meeting, manufactured housing industry circles took a bit of umbrage at the remarks of George Moorehouse, a NY Code Enforcement Official who allegedly said “In ten years there will be no more new manufactured housing placed in the state …

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Deadline for Comments on HUD Program Rapidly Approaching

By / October 28, 2015 / Advocacy, Legal, Legislation, Manufactured and Modular Housing News

In noting the 50th anniversary of former President Lyndon Johnson’s legislation creating the Department of Housing and Urban Development as a means to provide housing assistance in a growing urban population, Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) has issued a challenge to the public for assistance in solving the …

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MHARR White Paper to Jeb Hensarling on HUD

By / November 5, 2015 / Advocacy, home buyers, Legal, Legislation, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes

Washington, D.C., October 27, 2015 – MHARR informs MHProNews that in response to an invitation by House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) to “bring new ideas to the table on how best to fight the problems of poverty and housing affordability” on the 50th anniversary of the legislation …

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Health Insurance Firm Funds MHC Cooperatives

By / October 27, 2015 / Advocacy, Communities, home buyers, Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes

As a ROC USA™ Certified Technical Assistance Provider, the Northcountry Cooperative Foundation provides education, technical assistance, encouragement and services to cooperative organizations. According to publicnewsservce, there are roughly 1,000 manufactured home communities in Minnesota with a population just under 200,000 people, about six percent of the state’s populace. Warren Kramer, …

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Sunday Morning Recap-Manufactured Housing Industry News Oct. 18-Oct. 25, 2015

By / October 24, 2015 / Advocacy, Business, Communities, Company News, Economy, Factory-Built Homes, Finance, home buyers, Legal, Legislation, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, Modular, People, regulation, RV, Stocks

What’s New in public focused Manufactured HomeLivingNews.com Retired Realtor ® and Conventional Housing Pro on Why they Bought a Manufactured Home Comparing Quality to Quality – Conventional On-Site Building vs. Manufactured Homes What’s New in Manufactured Housing Industry Professional News “Duty to Serve” Rule Planned by FHFA, as cost of …

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Ohio MHA Succeeds in Removing Objectionable Legislative Language

By / October 20, 2015 / Advocacy, Business, Communities, Legal, Legislation, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, People, regulation

On May 14, 2015 MHProNews reported Tim Williams, Executive Director of the Ohio Manufactured Homes Association (OMHA), testified against objectionable EPA language in the Ohio state senate’s budget legislation that would require a manufactured home community owner to escrow 15 percent of the cost to update a water system if …

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