Residents of a Weslaco, Texas manufactured home and RV community are dealing with code violation notices from city officials. According to KRGV, Hidalgo County health officials have flagged more than half of the homes and RVs at the Weslaco Trailer Park property in the last week. They said violators are making …
Residents Try to Keep Up With Repairs, Code Violations Read More
President-elect Donald Trump has put forward a number of aggressive initiatives to spur or grow the U.S. economy. On the subject of taxes, questions about the ramifications from changes abound. And, the opportunities for the manufactured housing industry come clearly into focus. According to National Mortgage News, proposed corporate tax …
Proposed Trump Tax Reform, Does it Change Affordable Housing Finance? Read More
As “baby boomers” eye retirement in large numbers, builders believe that they could jumpstart an affordable housing boom. Per FOX Business, a report by the Harvard Joint Center for Housing finds that by 2035, more than one in five people in the U.S. will be aged 65 and older and one in …
Harvard Study, Baby Boomers to Spark Affordable Housing Boom Read More
Things are heating up in Arkansas between the manufactured housing industry and Governor Asa Hutchinson’s office. According to KATV, the issue stems from a proposal that is designed to stop military retirement benefit pay from being taxed. Proponents of the proposal say that it would bring more military to live …
Manufactured Housing Industry Speaks Out Against Tax Levy Read More
With confirmation hearings underway for Dr. Ben Carson as Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary, the voice of opposition is speaking loud and clear. “Although you have many accomplishments in the medical field, there is relatively little in the public record that reveals how you would further HUD’s …
Former HUD Secretaries Endorse Ben Carson for Post Read More
A new year, a new month, and a new set of featured articles are found on the MHProNews.com home page. Our theme for this month is: Jiu Jitsu January in Manufactured Homeland, USA. To see the line-up of over 3-dozen featured articles for this month, along with the headline commentary, …
Confirmation hearings in the Senate are already under way for some of President-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet picks. These include headliners such as Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions, and former Exxon Mobile CEO Rex Tillerson. Of great interest to manufactured houisng professionals will be the hearings for Department of Housing and Urban …
As Confirmation Hearings Begin, Differing Views on Dr. Ben Carson for HUD Secretary Read More
For many among the member of the “First Nations” in Canada, quality affordable housing is a persistent challenge. The Yale First Nation in British Columbia knows this all too well, having to work to provide housing that meets the challenge of standing up to cold weather without being too expensive. …
Modular Building Helps Native American First Nations Solve Housing Challenges Read More
Washington, D.C – The Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR), tells MHProNews that it has now formally called on Congress to review and reject the panned final regulation adopted by DOE under the Congressional Review Act (CRA). In a January 6, 2017 communication to the Chairmen of the Senate …
MHARR Calls for Congressional Review, Rejection of DOE Rule Read More
The Daily Business News has provided in-depth coverage of the reaction to the National Public Radio (NPR) broadcast and story Mobile Home Park Owners Can Spoil An Affordable American Dream, and the attack on investor owned communities by MHAction. The ongoing response from the industry’s professionals is to keep pointing …
NPR, MHAction memo, Cities Raise Fees, Close Manufactured Home Communities too Read More
The so-called “tiny home” movement has received quite a bit of coverage, both good and bad. Some call them sustainable and affordable, while others say that they are an impractical, illegal and an ineffective solution. Nevertheless, the media tends to love tiny houses. In Palm Springs, California, realtor Paul Kaplan …
Beginning of the Smaller Manufactured Home Revolution? Read More
A new year, a new month, and a new set of featured articles are found on the MHProNews.com home page. Our theme for will be posted on the Masthead blog Tuesday. More Featured Articles will be posted Tuesday, including addtional ones that are upcoming trade show related. To see the …
A Montana and Idaho nonprofit agency has launched a program to help people who live in what they called “mobile homes” to make repairs and improvements without having to resort to taking out high interest loans. Missoula based Montana and Idaho Community Development Corp. (MICDC) is rolling out the new …
Agency Offers “Mobile Home Improvement Loans” for Communities and Homes Read More
Small-to-large manufactured home community (MHC) operations are no strangers to the ire of anti-investor activists. MHAction is one such group. They’re seeking to grow their influence with MHC residents, media, policy advocates, regulatory and legislative bodies. Part of their strategy is to use the news media to attack higher-profile MH …
Anti Community MHAction Targets Frank Rolfe, RV Horizons and ELS Read More
AOL Small Business, and the Washington Post are two of several mainstream media sites reporting an anticipated surge of millennials into the housing market. “The millennial generation is now the nation’s largest age group, according to the U.S. Census Bureau,” Arkansas State University said in a marketing report. “These young …
2017 Millennial Housing Revolution. What About Manufactured Housing? Read More
The Digital Journal, International Business Times and dozens of other mainstream media outlets have picked up the following MHLivingNews press release that refutes the slanted claims made in a recent “All Things Considered” radio broadcast and related articles. The Inside MH Road Show and Manufactured Home Living News have featured experts and professionals, but homeowners …
“Jail Him!” NPR’s “Mobile Home Park Owners Can Spoil An Affordable American Dream” Refuted Read More
Ed Shukle is the City Administrator of the City of Landfall, in Oakdale Township, near the Twin Cities. With an eye to history and the future, Shukle has weaved an account that points-the-way that affordable housing was created and preserved, first with pre-HUD Code mobile homes, and later with post-code …
Movie Stars & Quality Affordable Homes – How a Park became a Community and “City” Read More
A flurry of comments follows the controversial, and many would say, flawed story by National Public Radio’s (NPR) correspondent, Daniel Zwerdling. Broadcast on NPR’s All Things Considered, one professional suggested that the taxpayer-sponsored program ought to be renamed, Only Progressive Viewpoints Considered. Tim Williams, M. Mark Weiss and community owner/investor …
In a story that the Daily Business News originally covered in September, residents at the Lowry Grove Mobile Home Park in St. Anthony, Minnesota have received news that the deadline for closing the community has been pushed from March 15 to June 30, 2017, the end of the school year. …
“The government estimates there are more than 8 million manufactured houses in America,” said Daniel Zwerdling, on National Public Radio’s (NPR) All Things Considered. “They’re a major source of low-income housing. But Syringa shows that the legal and financial ways that mobile home communities are set up often turn the …
