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May 2017 HUD Code Manufactured Housing Production Report

By / / Association, Business, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Housing Industry, Trends

Washington, D.C. – The Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) tells MHProNews that according to official statistics compiled on behalf of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), year-over-year manufactured housing industry production experienced double-digit growth once again during May 2017. “Just-released statistics indicate that HUD Code manufacturers […]

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Abandoned Manufactured Home Law Passed

By / / Legal, Legislation, Manufactured Home Communities, regulation

The Ohio Manufactured Home Association (OMHA) tells MHProNews that they’ve successfully passed their desired change to state law regarding abandoned manufactured homes. “While several changes have been made to the verification of value, the most important change will be to homes with deceased titleholders,” OMHA said. “Prior law gave us

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Two More Community Deals Closed by NHCLoan Fund

By / / loans, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Home Communities, Manufactured Home Community Commercial Financing, People

Two more manufactured home communities loans in Enfield and Canaan, NH were closed, converting the properties into resident owned communities, Steve Varnum told MHProNews.com. Varnum is with the NH Community Loan Fund (NHCLF), which he says was Established in 1983, and closed on their first resident owned cooperative in 1984. Mascoma Parks,

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Guru Frateschi – MH Stock Poised for BIG Gain, Plus Market Updates

By / / Business, Company News, Economy, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Home Communities, Manufactured Housing Industry, Stocks, Trends

The evolving Daily Business Newsmarket report sets the industry’s stocks in the broader context of the overall market stocks.  By spotlighting the headlines – from both sides of the left-right media divide – this report also helps readers see what are the trends and topics that may be moving the

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Lies, Fables and MH Impact – A Rose by Any Other Name…

By / / Affordable Housing, Analysis and Commentary, Business, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Housing Industry, media bias, media ignorance, mobile home, Modular and PreFab Housing Industry, People, Prefabricated housing, regulation

Several recent industry events have highlighted just how significant the incorrect use of jargon – terminology – is for manufactured housing retailers, communities, producers and others who serve, supply, and support the industry. For instance, the Ohio Manufactured Home Association (OMHA) and their state’s resident group struggle to keep their

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“Multiple Fatal Defects,” Association Calls HUD Secretary Carson to Enforce Trump’s Executive Order, re: HUD IB

By / / Association, Business, Manufactured Home Communities, Manufactured Housing Industry, People, regulation

The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) manufactured housing program administrator, Pamela Beck Danner, JD, or another person there authorized the issue of an Interpretive Bulletin (IB) concerning “frost-free” and frost-protected manufactured housing foundations in freezing climates. The HUD IB was issued on June 23, 2017, states the Manufactured

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Sooner or Later, It’s Moved by Truck

By / / Analysis and Commentary, Business, Economy, Energy Saving, Manufactured Housing Industry, Politics, regulation, Trends

While lumber costs have risen for all of housing – including factory builders – fuel prices are falling. In fact, CNN Money reports that prices are the lowest they’ve been in about 12 years. NBC News in the video below echoes that reality, stating that prices are expected to stay

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Economic Freedom, Millennial Considers Founders Through Lens of Ron Paul, Walter Williams, Milton Freidman

By / / Analysis and Commentary, Economy, Events, housing, People, Politics, regulation

“A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.” – Thomas Jefferson, Rights of British America, 1774 (1) “A people… who are possessed of the spirit of commerce, who see and who will pursue their advantages may

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Latest Manufacturing Report from ISM, with NAM, Other Industry Insights

By / / Association, Business, Economy, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Housing Industry, Trends

Manufacturing employs some 12.3 million workers in the United States.  That represents about 9 percent of the workforce, says the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM). The Institute for Supply Management (ISM) tells MHProNews that American factories powered up in June, 2017.  Production centers are at their fastest pace in nearly

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Technical Institute Looking to Modular Student Housing

By / / Affordable Housing, Announcements, Business, Modular and PreFab Housing Industry

Cost-effective housing today is a growing problem for employers and educational institutions alike. Google recently announced their plans to turn to modular construction to help ease their employee housing crunch. Now, Western Dakota Technical Institute (WDTI) is turning to modular building for on-campus living for the first time. WDTI is

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Warren Buffett’s Latest Push

By / / Analysis and Commentary, Business, Manufactured Housing Industry, People, Politics, regulation

Because Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway has such big chunks of the manufactured housing industry’s production, lending, suppliers, and more – the “Oracle of Omaha’s” thoughts are carefully followed by the industry’s professionals. In a recent video interview with Judy Woodruff on PBS, the discussion included a look at what should

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Spotlight=UFPI vs. Deltic – Patrick Gainer, Cavco Leads Decliners, MHCV Slides

By / / Business, Canada, Company News, Economy, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Home Community Commercial Financing, Manufactured Housing Industry, Stocks, Trends

The evolving Daily Business Newsmarket report sets the industry’s stocks in the broader context of the overall market stocks.  By spotlighting the headlines – from both sides of the left-right media divide – this report also helps readers see what are the trends and topics that may be moving the

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USA Snapshot, the Need for Affordable Housing, by the Numbers

By / / Affordable Housing, Analysis and Commentary, Announcements, Business, Economy, Manufactured Home Communities, Manufactured Housing Industry, People, research, Trends

With 1 out of 9 Americans moving every year in search of housing, that represents well over ten million potential opportunities for housing professionals annually. The U.S. Census Bureau says that in 2016, there were 324,118,787 Americans.  With 2.64 people per household, that yields some 122,772,267. So, when one out

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Meet Donald Tye, The Flashback Fast-Forward Face of Factory-Built Homes?!

By / / Advocacy, Affordable Housing, Analysis and Commentary, Business, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Housing Industry, Modular and PreFab Housing Industry, Politics, regulation

“Affordable home ownership is Human Capital Investing as opposed to warehousing humans like cattle in a corral,” said Donald Tye, Jr. He made that and other potent comments as part of an in-depth upcoming video interview and related conversations with a man who understands factory-built housing after decades of first

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Americans On the Move – How Often? What are the MH Opportunities?

By / / Analysis and Commentary, home buyers, housing, Manufactured Home Communities, Manufactured Housing Industry, People, research, Trends

Manufactured home professionals may not always realize how many people are ‘on the move’ in their market. Not every mover in an area may not represent an opportunity to sell a home, or fill a leased site/home in a community.  But many – once they’re properly exposed to the realities

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Sunday Morning Weekly Recap Manufactured Housing Industry News June 25 to July 2, 2017

By / / Headlines - Week In Review for Manufactured, Manufactured and Modular Housing News

As vacation season rolls on, we’ll try something just a little bit different again today for our weekly recap of .  Reader feedback, always encouraged and appreciated.  Matthew and his work are missed, but we hope his trip to the mountains will be a good one! What’s New on MHLivingNews.com

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Flashback Report – Urban Factory-Home Building Project, What It Could Mean Today

By / / Affordable Housing, Announcements, Business, Factory-Built Homes

It was the early 1970s.  Then – as now – affordable housing was an issue.  Then as now, quality, affordable homes were needed in urban settings — not just in land-lease communities.  Nor limited to scattered, rural homesites. The home in the featured photo above was reportedly produced in Elkhart,

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HUD Secretary Ben Carson Exclusive Video – ‘Absolutely!’ ‘We Need Crusaders’

By / / Affordable Housing, Analysis and Commentary, Factory-Built Homes, housing, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Housing Industry, Modular and PreFab Housing Industry, People, Politics

As June 2017 winds to a close – a time which President Donald J. Trump proclaimed to be Home Ownership month – Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Dr. Ben Carson hosted a video broadcast via Facebook, which MHLivingNews captured, enhanced from the original and provided to the Daily Business

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Insider Trades at Tricon, Spotlight – Check Moves at Cavco, Skyline, More

By / / Affordable Housing, Business, Canada, Company News, Economy, Finance, Manufactured Home Communities, Manufactured Housing Industry, Stocks, Trends

The evolving Daily Business News market report sets the industry’s stocks in the broader context of the overall market stocks. By spotlighting the headlines – from both sides of the left-right media divide – this report also helps readers see what are the trends and topics that may be moving

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