Shady Oaks Mobile Home Park in St. Cloud, Minnesota will close in August, 2016, and Le Sauk Township will enlist the assistance of Wilson Development Services to help with relocation efforts for the residents, according to sctimes. The state requires communities that are closing to give residents a nine-month notice, …
Minnesota MH Community Closing, Consultant Helping with Relocation Read More
MHProNews posted a story May 25, 2016 regarding the Waples Mobile Home Park in Fairfax, VA being charged with violation of federal and state fair housing laws for evicting residents who do not have Social Security cards, which a legal aid group says is discriminatory because it disproportionately affects Latinos. …
Lawsuit Charges Eviction from MH Community is Discriminatory Read More
From naplesnews, MHProNews has learned Fort Myers, Fla.-based Murex Properties won the 2016 Community of the Year award, Western Region for its Dolce Vita manufactured home community (MHC) east of Phoenix. The annual honor was bestowed upon Murex at the Manufactured Housing Institute’s National Congress and Expo for Manufactured and …
Following a story MHProNews last posted May 5, 2016 regarding the planned closing of Lowry Grove manufactured home community (MHC) in suburban Minneapolis, theuptake reports the 96-home site community residents, mostly people of color, are attempting to raise $6 million to counter the offer of Continental Property Group (CPG)—but they …
MH Community Closing, Residents trying to Stave off Displacement Read More
Four Latino families have alleged that Waples Mobile Home Community and its management company, A. J. Dwoskin & Associates in Fairfax, Virginia, violated the Fair Housing Act, the Virginia Fair Housing Law and the Manufactured Home Lot Rental Agreement. They claim the community owners refused to renew the leases of …
VA MH Community Charged with Violating the Fair Housing Law Read More
Presented at the 2016 Venice Architecture Bienalle, and set to launch this summer in the Netherlands, this new self-reliant concept involves waste recycling, energy generation and food production to attain sustainable living. Based on a study from Stanford University, each village combines homes, greenhouses and public buildings, interconnecting vertical farming …
Self-sustaining Community Features Vertical Gardens Read More
Everett and Regina Saunders, the owners of the Amberlite Mobile Home Park in Bloomingburg, New York, about 80 miles northwest of New York City, have sent a letter dated March 29 to the residents that the community will be sold July 29 for $960,000 to Amberlite LLC, and the new …
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What’s New in public focused Manufactured HomeLivingNews.com Illinois Professional Couple Discover their Getaway Home near Florida’s top Beaches What’s New in Manufactured Housing Industry Professional News MH Community adding 46 homes. Malibu manufactured home goes for $3.5 million. Oregon MHC sets new record. Oklahoma City has first modular hotel. Americans …
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The Roaring Fork Valley Regional Planning Commission has approved a proposal for El Jebel Mobile Home Park in Eagle County, Colorado to add 46 modular homes to the 298 existing units in the community. A worker enclave for five decades, the Crawford family has contributed affordable housing to the area …
Forty-six Homes to be Added to El Jebel Mobile Home Park in Colorado Read More
Setting the new high watermark for manufactured home community (MHC) sales in the Northwest, a multifamily advisory team from Colliers International Portland sold Summer Oaks MHC in Eugene, Oregon for $10.4 million, which translates to $102,000 per home site for the 102-site community. Last year, Colliers also engineered the sale …
While the original Oak Forest manufactured home community in Egg Harbor Townhship, in southern New Jersey had 158 home sites, current owner/developer Ralph Clayton received a use variance from the zoning board in 2007, and site preparation is now in progress for an additional 92 MH sites. The 54.62 acre …
The Yellowstone County Commission in Montana unanimously voted against a zone change request from residential tracts to residential manufactured homes (MH) on some 30 acres of vacant land outside Laurel, just south of Billings, but within the city’s zoning jurisdiction following neighborhood complaints against the proposal. Remonstrators allege the development …
County Commissioners deny Request to Rezone Land for Manufactured Home Community Read More
MHProNews has learned from thecourier that the city council of Fostoria, Ohio approved legislation establishing new standards for manufactured homes (MH) sited in residential neighborhoods, outside of manufactured home communities. Under the new law, MH must resemble site-built homes, including being set on a foundation and with similar siding materials …
Ohio City Sets New Standards for Manufactured Homes Outside MH Communities Read More
In March, the Laramie (WY) City Council lifted the ban on the sale or transfer of mobile homes built prior to standards of the Department of Housing and Urban Development in 1976, as laramieboomerang informs MHProNews. In Dec. 2015 at issue was an ordinance restricting recreational vehicles (RVs) to no …
City Council to Consider Checkerboarding of Manufactured Homes and RVs Read More
What’s New in public focused Manufactured HomeLivingNews.com Illinois Professional Couple Discover their Getaway Home near Florida’s top Beaches What’s New in Manufactured Housing Industry Professional News Rent control judgment favors manufactured home community owner. CFPB may tighten screws excessively on short-term lenders. NAR calls for more starter homes to ease …
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Rick Cantu, of Emerald Acres Cooperative, one of 119 resident-owned manufactured home communities in New Hampshire, was honored by ROC-NH’s (resident-owned communities-New Hampshire) Co-ops Celebrating Community for his outstanding volunteer work in his community, receiving the Above and Beyond award. He was nominated by his neighbors, one of whom wrote: …
Manufactured Housing Co-operative Member Honored for Outstanding Community Service Read More
Following a story MHProNews posted May 11, 2016 regarding manufactured home community (MHC) owner NorthStar Realty Finance Corp., costar reports NorthStar is selling its portfolio of 135 manufactured home communities to a fund managed by Brookfield Asset Management Inc. for $2.04 billion, 33,010 home sites, the equivalent of $61,800 per …
NorthStar Selling Manufactured Home Community Portfolio for $2.04B Read More
A United States District Court jury awarded the owner of Colony Cove manufactured home community (MHC) $3.3 million in damages against the city of Carson, California for violating his constitutional rights by repeatedly rejecting his proposed rent increases going back to 2006. According to dailybreeze, owner James Goldstein, the largest …
Excessive Rent Control Results in $3.3M Judgment for Colony Cove MHC Read More
MHProNews has learned that Colony Capital Inc., a Los Angeles-based international investment and asset management firm, is negotiating to acquire NorthStar Asset Management Group, Inc. which split off from NorthStar Realty nearly two years ago, resulting in the decline of both stocks. NorthStar Realty is a real estate investment trust …
NorthStar Spinning off Manufactured Home Community Portfolio Read More
In the wake of UMH Properties, Inc. solid first quarter, the company plans to add 700-800 rental homes in fiscal year 2016, saying, “Our strong Q1 results represent an excellent start to 2016 that we intend to build upon going forward,” according to thefly. As MHProNews reported May 9, 2016, …
