Following a story MHProNews last posted May 11, 2016 regarding the sudden end of operations for Innovative Building Systems (IBS) and the fall out that closed Excel Homes, and Mod-U-Kraf Homes in Rocky Mount, VA, roanoke reports the Franklin Center in Rocky Mount held a support and job-seeking gathering for …
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A team of designers and engineers from Daytona State College (DSC) and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU) in Florida–known as Team Daytona Beach–is building a solar-powered home as one of 14 international teams chosen to compete in the 2017 U. S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon. The competition requires students to …
Modular Home on Tap as Students Partner to Prepare for Solar Decathlon 2017 Read More
Mark Duran, executive director of the New Mexico Manufactured Housing Association, stated the resurgence in appeal of the manufactured home (MH) stems from the desire of home ownership, built-in amenities and lower cost, and today’s buyers range from the starter home set to the well-being who have often cashed out …
In an attempt to revitalize Minneapolis’ North Side which is plagued with crime, high unemployment and boarded-up housing, the largest black-owned business in Minnesota is moving its headquarters to the area. It intends to establish a new company that will sell and site modular homes as infill for some of …
Minority-owned Builder Plans Modular Homes as Infill in Minneapolis Read More
What’s New in public focused Manufactured HomeLivingNews.com NeighborWorks, Clayton Homes Partner with Next Step Homes in Waco, Texas How a Professional Couple saved $100,000 on a New Home in Tennessee What’s New in Manufactured Housing Industry Professional News MH Communities closing in Minnesota, New York. Cavco stock closes above $100. …
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The one-time site of a manufactured home community in Caversham, United Kingdom will soon see 28 modular homes for homeless families, as MHProNews has learned from getreading.co.uk. The goal of the Reading Borough Council is to address the chronic lack of temporary housing in the borough and reduce the use …
Former MH Community Property will Host Modular Homes for Homeless Read More
Harking back to a post MHProNews published Feb. 23, 2016 regarding Wyoming Homes owner David Valenti pleading guilty to 19 counts of theft for not delivering modular homes for which he had been paid, he has now pleaded guilty to 21 counts of theft, alleging he stole over $240,000 from …
Modular Home Dealer Ordered to Jail on 21 Theft Charges Read More
MHProNews has learned from globenewswire that manufactured and modular home producer Cavco Industries, Inc. will release its financials for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2016 on Thurs., May 26, 2016, after the close of the market. On Fri., May 27, 2016, at 1 PM eastern daylight time, senior management …
Cavco Industries Releasing Quarterly Numbers May 26 Read More
At the 2016 National Congress & Expo for Manufactured and Modular Housing held in Las Vegas, 700 manufactured housing (MH) professionals heard a panel of industry leaders state that, with the onset of seniors downsizing, single-parent households and Millennials becoming the largest consumer group, the time is ripe for MH …
MH Industry Leaders Pursue New Marketing Strategies Read More
Noting that one third of the people in Ireland need some form of state support to buy or rent a home, Housing Minister Simon Coveney, speaking to the Housing Agency’s annual conference, said, “Affordability is the real challenge facing housing in Ireland.” Facing a deadline at the end of July …
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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
Dutch architect Jurrian Knijtijzer has developed a stackable and addable, modular building system for homes, offices, clinics or schools that is also 95 percent recyclable. Made of sustainable lumber from a tree farm—his company, Finch Buildings, plants a tree for every one they cut down–builds the 13 ft. X 33 …
“The Tesla of Housing” Claims Dutch Architect Knijtijzer Read More
The fallout continues from the bankruptcy of Innovative Building Systems, as MHProNews last reported May 7, 2016, closing Keiser Homes, leaving the developers of 82 High Street in Farmington, ME, a nonprofit affordable housing complex, to find a replacement builder. The complex’s board of directors will review proposals from three …
Modular Apartment Builder Seeks Replacement for Keiser 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 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
Hotel development and management firm Newcrestimage is partnering with Guerdon Modular Buildings to construct a 142-room AC Hotel Bricktown in Oklahoma City, reports modularhomecoach to MHProNews. The first floor of the building will be conventional construction, followed by four floors of 81 modules built by Guerdon at their plant in …
After four years of research and development, the Amsterdam collective Fiction Factory has developed a modular house made primarily of treated cardboard that is said to last 50 years, according to huhmagazine.co.uk. Designed for either homes or offices, the Wikkelhouse (roughly, ‘wrap house’) comes in tubular sections of about 43 …
MHProNews has learned the seven story modular housing complex made from old shipping containers rising in downtown Vancouver, British Columbia is headed up by the non-profit Atira Women’s Resource Center, which already has a 12 unit modular building providing housing for women in town. This 21-unit housing project is for …
Modular Container Housing to House At Risk Women and Families in Vancouver Read More
MHProNews has learned manufactured and modular housing builder Skyline Corp. will open a new factory in Elkhart, Indiana to produce affordable housing for markets in Indiana, Michigan and Illinois. “The opening of the Elkhart facility is in response to growing demand for our existing community partners,” said Skyline President and …
Skyline Corp. adding Manufacturing Plant in Elkhart, IN Read More
News continues arriving to MHProNews in the wake of modular builder Innovative Building Systems’ (IBS) sudden Chapter 7 bankruptcy, which we last covered May 16, 2016, as dailyitem reports 280 people at the Excel Homes plant in Liverpool, PA have lost their jobs, effective May 13. Begun in 1984, other …
