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.

Manufactured Home can Provide Temporary Health Care

Minnesota’s temporary family health care housing law will allow a modular or manufactured home or recreational vehicle to be sited on the property of a relative, legal guardian or caregiver for up to one year, as MHProNews has learned from abcnewspapers. The law would allow a structure of up to …

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FEMA Grants California Control over Distribution of Emergency Manufactured Homes

Updating a story MHProNews last posted Aug. 1, 2016 regarding the use of the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) manufactured homes for people whose homes were destroyed in the Erskine Fire in California, the Kern County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to pursue a county-state partnership for recovery from the …

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Kashechewan First Nation getting Modular Homes following Major Flood

In May of 2014 spring melt flooding on the Albany River drove 450 Kashechewan First Nation residents living in Northern Ontario, Canada out of their homes and into temporary quarters in Kapuskasing, according to what cbc.ca tells MHProNews, at a cost to the government of $350,000 monthly. Earlier this spring, …

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Modular Apartment Building Rises in Three Day Weekend

A new modular apartment building has risen at the corner of Washington and 12th St. in Philadelphia, as philly.curbed informs MHProNews, assembled in one three-day weekend. The luxury apartment building that replaced the old heating and air conditioning store is five stories tall and will have a combination of 50 …

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Senior Single-family Market Remains on the Upside

For the ninth consecutive quarter, builder confidence in the single family 55+ senior housing market has remained in positive territory, reports the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) to MHProNews. “Builders and developers for the 55+ housing sector continue to report steady demand,” said Jim Chapman, chairman of NAHB’s 55+ …

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Housing Platforms: Dems say Up the Ante; GOP says Shut Federal Spigot, Throttle Regulators

Both the Democratic and Republican campaigns this year are devoting considerable energy to housing, the cornerstone of the “American Dream,” but both have different approaches to the topic, as dispatch tells MHProNews. Platforms serve more as rallying cries than actual policy initiative, and typically, the Republicans will call for less …

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Three Delaware Residents of Manufactured Homes Receive Scholarships

The First State Manufactured Housing Association (FSMHA) in Delaware has chosen three finalists to receive the $3,000 in scholarship funds they donate each year to students who live in manufactured homes, according to what delawareonline tells MHProNews. Eric Nielsen, a 2016 graduate of Milford Senior High School, will major in …

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Unemployment Rate Tells One Story; Labor Participation Rate Determines Revenue, Federal Debt

Each first Friday of the month the Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics issues its jobs report for the previous month—commonly called the U-3 number–an abundance of employment-related data, each of which has a story about the employment scene. While the official unemployment rate held steady at 4.9 percent—called the …

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Maine Manufactured Home Community Plans to Expand

Connecticut Property Management LLC has applied with the Belfast, Maine Planning Board to expand the Penobscot Mobile Home Park in Belfast by adding 34 home sites to the existing 21, according to waldo.villagesoup. The city ordinance requires new lots to be a minimum of 6,500 sq ft with at least …

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Media in North Coastal Oregon Advocates Manufactured Homes

Noting that housing is the number one issue for civic leaders and house seekers in communities around the mouth of the Columbia River, dailyastorian informs MHProNews as the real estate market is regaining strength, consideration should be given to establishing new manufactured home communities (MHC) as a means of providing …

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Sunday Morning Recap-Manufactured Housing Industry News Aug 1-Aug. 7, 2016

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Modular Container Homes Rising in Edmonton, Alberta

Changes to Edmonton, Alberta, Canada’s by-laws have led to a mini-boom in modular container homes, called laneway housing locally, small homes added to property that may already contain a regular size family home. Honomobo co-founder Daniel Engelman, who has teamed up with Devon Siebenga, president of BigSteelBox Structures in Kelowna, …

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Minn. Attorney General Files Brief to Halt Sale of Community to Developer

Updating a story MHProNews last posted July 5, 2016 regarding attempts by residents of the Lowry Grove manufactured home community (MHC) in north Minneapolis to forestall the sale of their community because the owner did not offer them first right of refusal before selling it to a developer, the Minnesota …

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Class of 2016 Inducted into RV/MH Hall of Fame

In a gala ceremony before 300 friends, family and colleagues, the Class of 2016 was inducted into the RV/MH Hall of Fame (Hall) Aug. 1, at the Hall in Elkhart, Indiana. Prior to the induction ceremonies, Hall President Darryl Searer said after four years, with support from individuals and companies, …

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Dow Comes Back Strong; MHCV Outgained the Dow, +1.79 percent

In the news from CNNMoney: Seniors are getting locked out of Social Security. Subway has a new ‘fresh’ logo. American Airlines agrees to double-digit pay raises. Nazi leader Nermann Göring’s gold plated Walther PPK handgun up for auction. U. S. economy hired 255,000 new workers in July, it’s second straight …

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Bill to Use Section 8 Vouchers to Buy Manufactured Home Signed by President Obama

Following up on the recent Senate passage of a bill that passed in the House in February – The Housing Opportunity through Modernization Act (HOTMA), posted on MHLivingNews and picked up hundreds of mainstream media outlets and advocacy sites – President Obama signed that bill it into law, as expected.  The bill willl allow …

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Redevelopment of MH Community in North Carolina Approved

The Hendersonville (North Carolina) City Council approved a special use permit and four variances to redevelop the Whiteside’s Green Acre Mobile Home Park into the Claystone Manufactured Home Park, an age-restricted 55 and older community with 31 home sites, front porches and carports. Whiteside currently has 31 sites but only …

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RHP Acquires two MHCs in Connecticut

MHProNews has learned from rebusinessonline that Farmington Hills, Mich-based RHP Properties has acquired two manufactured home communities (MHC) in East Hartford, Conn. Both the 263-home site Rivermead Manufactured Home Community and the 199-home site Colonial Manufactured Home Community are all age communities but with a focus on seniors. RHP now …

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Drew Reports Net Sales 22% Above Last Year’s Comparable Quarter

Elkhart, Indiana-based Drew Industries, Inc. reported consolidated net sales for the second quarter of 2016 increased to $441 million, 22 percent higher than the same period in 2015. “Our operating profit in the second quarter of 2016 improved to more than $59 million, compared to nearly $34 million in the …

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Modular, Manufactured Homes Coming to Ute Mountain Indians

A modular apartment building with 11 single bedroom apartments for Ute Mountain Indian tribal members will result from an $871,000 grant to Colorado’s Department of Local Affairs (DOLA) Division of Housing, as cortezjournal informs MHProNews. The apartment units in Towaoc will specifically target homeless, those at risk of becoming homeless …

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