On Martha’s Vineyard, style and price are par for the course. For builder Bill Potter, he saw opportunity to deliver both, with modular, at the right time at the right price. According to MV Times, when the markets crashed back in 2008, Potter and his wife Terry started asking themselves …
In Colorado, House Bill 17-1354 is music to the ears of manufactured home owners and residents throughout the state. According to the Reporter Herald, the bill would help prevent residents from losing their homes over delinquent tax bills they didn’t know were unpaid, and is one step closer to becoming law. …
Movement by the House Financial Services Committee, led by Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-TX), could spell the end for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as we know it. According to ACA International, the committee debated the future of the Financial CHOICE Act during a hearing yesterday. Originally introduced by Hensarling in …
Throughout Canada, many First Nations native tribes are struggling with the dual challenge of quality, and affordable, housing. Mold and other natural elements, when combined with overcrowding, present issues tribal members call a “sad reality.” The solution, they believe, lies in modular housing. According to the CBC, the Yale First …
The ongoing battle between the Ohio Manufactured Housing Association (OMHA) and Ohio Governor John Kasich over the status of the Ohio Manufactured Housing Commission (OMHC) has been taken to a whole new level, with what informed sources are calling “fake news.” According to a story from WOSU, Gov. Kasich wants to …
In an update to the story that the Daily Business News originally covered here, residents at the Thetis Lake Campground community in View Royal, British Columbia, Canada, are facing an imminent threat. According to Western Investor, assessments on the community are threatening the viability of the most affordable housing option in …
UPDATE: MHC Future in Doubt, the Other Side of Rent Control Read More
In an effort to tackle the affordable housing challenges in New York City, two designers have looked up, but not to build skyscrapers. According to Dezeen, Instant City: Living Air-Right, a plan created by designers Beomki Lee and Chang Kyu Lee, calls for using vacant airspace over existing New York …
Modular Housing Visions are Looking Up in New York’s Big Apple Read More
In Australia, manufactured home builder and community owner Gateway Lifestyle Group has seen significant growth since the Daily Business News reported a potential deal with Hometown America last August to purchase National Lifestyle Villages (NLV), Western Australia’s largest operator of manufactured home communities. At the time, the proposed deal would …
Acquisition, and Rumors of a Billion Dollar Acquisition, for Hometown America Read More
In what is quickly becoming known as the “tweet heard ‘round the manufactured housing world,” former ESPN and MSNBC host Keith Olbermann’s reference to President Donald Trump supporters — former Presidential candidate Sarah Palin and musicians Ted Nugent and Kid Rock during their White House visit — as “trailer park …
In Massachusetts, residents of the Chelmsford Commons manufactured home community have reportedly reached a six-figure settlement in a class action lawsuit against community owner, Michigan based RHP Properties. According to the Lowell Sun, the suit alleges that RHP improperly raised rents on residents over the last five years. As a …
Manufactured Home Community Residents Reach Settlement In Legal Action Read More
In the U.S., millions are still working, hoping and praying for the original American Dream: home ownership. More than a half a century since the “War on Poverty” began, not much has changed – and the nation is in the midst of an affordable housing crisis, where preservation, and creation, …
Trump, Carson, Creating Jobs by Supplying the American Dream Read More
In the U.K., modular housing continues to gain steam as a practical solution to the nation’s growing housing crisis. But in Wembley, just north of London it’s being taken to a whole new level. According to Construction News UK, Tide Construction and Vision Modular Systems have put the final piece …
In California, the San Francisco Bay Area remains one of the most expensive places to live in the U.S., with some one-bedroom apartments running well over $3,000 per month. In the city of Pleasanton, an affluent enclave, the Vineyard Estates 55 and over manufactured home community remains one of the …
Respect Demanded: MHC Residents, Families, Speak Out Read More
Our theme for this month is: Manufactured Housing Industry Politics – Complicated Cross Currents, or April Fools? and our featured articles are now live on the MHProNews.com home page. To see the line-up of over 3-dozen featured articles for this month, along with the headline commentary, please click the link above. Manufactured, …
Just outside of St. Louis, Missouri, a developer is dealing with the reality that sometimes, trying to do the right thing isn’t always enough. In a story the Daily Business News originally covered here, the city of Chesterfield’s only manufactured home community, Chesterfield Mobile Home Park, had rumors swirling about …
A long, and often confusing rollercoaster ride for residents at the East End Mobile Home Park in Manassas, Virginia may be coming to an end. But, as has been the case for the community, it won’t come without clearing a few hurdles. Per InsideNova, James Turner, an Alexandria lawyer and …
Rollercoaster Ride may be Ending for Manufactured Home Community? Read More
While the value proposition for manufactured housing is well known to industry professionals, showing or explaining that value to the mainstream can be a challenge. According to recent information from NAREIT, that appears to be changing. New data shows that manufactured housing REITs now occupy an enviable place in real …
In Belfast, Maine, members of the city’s planning board are reviewing plans to expand a manufactured home community. According to Village Soup, the community is owned by Connecticut Property Management and sits on 22 total acres. The community currently has 21 homes, and the proposed expansion would create 31 additional …
Planning Board Reviews Manufactured Home Community Expansion Read More
In the ongoing saga of Laconia, New Hampshire – based Briarcrest Estates, both the tempers, and stakes, are higher than ever. According to the Laconia Daily Sun, Briarcrest co-op board members Joe McCarthy, Don Vachon and John Drouin have resigned from the six-member board, after they came under fire over …
Drama, Take Three – MHC Infighting Over Potential Sale Read More
New data in from the National Association of Homebuilders (NAHB) shows that homebuilding in the U.S. fell in the month of March, recording its biggest decline in three years. According to the St. Louis Dispatch, housing starts declined 6.8 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.22 million units. …
