Matthew Silver

Following a 25-year career operating a custom hardwood furnishing business and occasional writing, Matthew Silver has been writing professionally for over a dozen years, six of those for the factory-built housing industry. Otherwise, he may be found performing folk music in the Indianapolis area.

Islanders not Interested in Connecticut, says Official

As we reported here Fri. Nov. 23, the Stephen Siller Tunnel to Tower Foundation is purchasing up to 30 modular homes to be sited on land owned by Faith Church in New Milford, Connecticut to house refugees of Hurricane Sandy from Staten Island (SI) because of the foundation’s ties to …

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Drew Gains, Patrick Stumbles, most Housing Stocks Move Little

U.S. stocks closed mixed today as investors watched reports from the beginning of the holiday buying season amid concerns abut the fiscal cliff and the Eurozone debt crisis. CNNMoney reports the Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped -0.33 percent, -42.31 points, ending the day at just under the 13k mark at …

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Modular Homes Housing the most Vulnerable

Under a program to combat poverty and hunger in rural areas, AllAfrica reports the provincial governor of Kwanza Sul, Eusebio de Brito Teixeirain, of Angola, has dedicated the first 12 of 50 modular homes to impoverished residents of Kassongue district. Beneficiaries of the new homes were identified with the help …

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New MH Development Proposed

GooseCreekPatch reports from Berkeley County, South Carolina just north of Charleston, the Berkeley County Commission will hear a request to rezone property from Planned Development Mixed Use to R-2, Manufactured Residential District. The property is in Summerville, SC. As MHProNews knows, South Carolina has one of the highest percentages of …

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Outstanding Tax Bill at Issue

According to myfoxpointnow, Milwaukee, Wis.-based MHC owner Asset Development Group’s value was assessed nearly seven times more in 2008 and 2009 than in the following two years due to failure to file a statement of personal property for the earlier years. While the firm has paid its taxes for 2010 …

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MH Homeowners Denied Right to Form Association

A group of ten residents of Westview Village Mobile Home Park in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada, frustrated that management was not enforcing maintenance rules on some of the properties, attempted to form a neighborhood association. Kelownacapnews informs MHProNews a group calling itself Westview Village Concerned Homeowners sent a letter to …

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Mortgage Apps Fall

HousingWire tells MHProNews mortgage applications fell 2.2 percent for the week ending Nov. 16, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA). Meanwhile, the refinance index dropped three percent from the previous week as refinancing activity comprised 81 percent of all loan applications, the same number as the previous week. The …

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Dow Back Above 13k; Housing Stocks Mostly Move Little

The three major indexes all finished above one percent for the shortened trading day, spurred on by investors’ anticipation of Black Friday consumer sales, drove the Dow back above thirteen thousand. CNNMoney reports the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained +1.35 percent, +172.79 points, ending the day at 13,009. 68.The Nasdaq …

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Snakes Alive! Modular Homes Sitting Empty

After Spring 2011 flooding forced 1,000 Lake St Martin First Nation residents from their homes in central Manitoba, Canada, the provincial government set up 60 furnished modular homes on a former radar base near Gypsumville. According to WinnipegFreePress, nine months later only 13 families have taken up the offer, others …

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Foundation Offers Homes to Islanders

A Connecticut foundation with roots in Staten Island (SI) is offering 20-30 fully furnished modular homes to SI residents displaced by Hurricane Sandy sited on four acres of land the Faith Church owns in New Milford, Conn. Frank Siller, of the Stephen Siller Tunnel to Tower Foundation, John Hodge, director …

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Three Week Move-in After Order?

Gizmag tells us a Spanish partnership of CSO Arquitectura and prefab home builder Torsan has developed a modular home that can be move-in ready three weeks afer it is ordered. It takes a week to produce the detailed drawings, the frame and paneling are completed over three days, and a …

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World’s Tallest Building will be Modular

As follow up to an article we posted June 19, 2012 about Broad Sustainable Building Corp. constructing the world’s largest skyscraper in 90 days from modular units, the project is about to get underway. TIME says the 2,749-foot, 220-story tower in China’s Hunan Province will contain apartments for 30,000, a …

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Former MH Plant to Reopen as Modular Facility

TheAlmaTimes tells MHProNews the former Fleetwood manufactured home plant in Alma, Georgia that began production in 1993 and closed July 2009 as the result of bankruptcy will reopen as a modular commercial manufacturing facility. Titan Modular Systems plans to hire 100 workers. (Photo credit: TheAlmaTimes)

Sun Clinches Deal, Builds Portfolio

As we reported Oct. 9, 2012, Southfield, Mich.-based Sun Communities, Inc. (SUI) announced it was purchasing four manufactured home communities in eastern Mich., with 1,996 homesites for $70.8 million, and providing mezzanine financing for two other MHCs that it will manage, with 1,598 homesites, all being acquired from entities of …

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Modular Housing Meets Stiff Resistance

RidgefieldPatch reports a proposed affordable modular housing project in Ridgefield, Connecticut has met with stiff opposition from neighbors as well as a planning and zoning commission member. The four, 3.5-story buildings on .41 of an acre would have 11 units, 30 percent of which would be affordable housing to help …

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Deregulation would Spur the Economy

Forbes reports that if the Democrats truly want to restore the economy to the prosperity enjoyed during the Clinton years and avoid the “fiscal cliff,” the administration needs to enact policies that mimic those years, which include repealing ObamaCare and reducing federal regulation. In addition, federal spending was much smaller …

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Three Indexes, Most Housing Stocks Register Gains

The government’s strong report on jobless claims and positive housing news trumped concerns over Greece’s economic woes as the three indexes all advanced, although slightly. CNNMoney reports the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 0.33 percent, +41.83 points, ending the day at 12,830.34. The Nasdaq advanced +0.34 percent, +9.87 points to …

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