MHProNews has learned from cnjonline that residents in eastern New Mexico are being warned about improperly installed gas furnaces in manufactured homes that can emit carbon monoxide and possibly lead to an explosion. The Construction Industries and Manufactured Housing Division (CID/MHD) of the Regulation and Licensing Department of New Mexico …
Noting the Department of Energy’s new proposal is critical to the manufactured home industry because “it is genuinely draconian and will have a drastically negative impact,” the Manufactured Housing for Regulatory Reform’s (MHARR) Mark Weiss, says its final adoption can be stopped with enough pushback. Commenting on a meeting at …
MHARR Issues a Call to Arms to Defeat the Enactment of DOE’s New Proposal Read More
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and Director Richard Cordray dodged a legal bullet when U. S. District Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle in Washington ruled a challenge to Cordray’s authority by Big Springs National Bank of Big Spring, Texas did not have merit. The bank filed the suit in 2012, claiming …
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While many on both sides of the aisle recognize the importance of reforming the secondary housing finance system, 32 Congressional Democrats sent a letter to Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Director Mel Watt saying the government-sponsored enterprises’ (GSEs) capital base, which is set to expire in 2018, sends out a …
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Social Housing Minister Paula Bennett of New Zealand says the government is moving ahead with plans to build modular social (low income) housing as part of a comprehensive plan to increase the housing supply in Auckland and provide housing for the more vulnerable. Most of the homes will be one …
New Zealand Government Providing Modular Affordable Housing Read More
The Freeland (Penn.) Borough Council along with the Freeland Business and Development Authority voted in favor of a redevelopment project on Ridge St., which will involve demolishing three blighted properties and placing two $100,000 modular homes on the property. Town Solicitor Donald Karpowich, noting the desire to expand the tax …
The U. S. House of Representatives passed the $21.7 billion Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 239-185, in a party line vote, that would bring the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) under Congressional appropriations oversight. The measure would also replace the single director with a five-member bipatrisan commission, a …
House Passed Appropriations Measure would Alter Funding and Leadership of CFPB Read More
What’s New in public focused Manufactured HomeLivingNews.com Educator, Builder Compare Conventional House to Residential Style Manufactured Home Living & Quality Double-Digit Manufactured Home Sales Growth, MHARR July 7 Report What’s New in Manufactured Housing Industry Professional News House defeats two amendments that would cripple proposed MH financing. Ohio county pursuing …
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Lawrence County, Ohio on the Ohio River bordering Kentucky is collecting the second half of the year’s property taxes, according to what irontontribune tells MHProNews. Noting that collections are on track to match last year’s second half collections, Lawrence County Treasurer Stephen Burcham said there is a mortgage company to …
Lawrence County Targets Delinquent Manufactured Home Taxes Read More
The Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) and the Indiana MH Association informs MHProNews that in the U. S. House of Representatives, two amendments to the Fiscal Year 2017 Financial Services Appropriations bill were defeated that would have stripped language from the bill that make necessary changes to the Dodd-Frank Act in …
House Reaffirms Support for MH by Defeating two Potentially Crippling Amendments Read More
The Foremost Homes modular home factory near Mercersburg, Pennsylvania is at the middle of a custody dispute between the former and current owner, which modularhomebuilder says may be prompting the auction of equipment on July 13, 2016. Foremost is comprised of two factories, the modular home plant and the panel-making …
Ownership of PA’s Modular Builder Foremost Homes in Court Read More
The city of Portland, Oregon has over 400 vacant homes on its eastside, “zombie homes”as portlandtribune calls them, some of which are nuisance-creating, others are just nuisances. Mayor Charlie Hales just returned from the conference of mayors in Indianapolis, and commentator John Schrag suggests the mayor take a page from …
Opinion: Non-profits to Buy Vulnerable MH Communities to Preserve Affordable Housing Read More
Updating a story MHProNews has been following out of the Lowry Grove manufactured home community (MH) in St. Anthony, MN outside Minneapolis, where residents were trying to stop the sale of their community, and are now trying to reverse the sale in court, the nearly 100 families have been given …
Lawsuit Attempts to Block Sale of Manufactured Home Community Read More
The manufactured home community (MHC) that has been the setting for TLC’s Myrtle Manor TV reality show in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina is in fact Patrick’s Mobile Home Park, according to myrtlebeachonline. Owner Cecil Patrick currently sells souvenirs relating to the show but has to apply for a “special event” …
In insider trading, Todd Cleveland, CEO of Patrick Industries, Inc. (NASDAQ:PATK), a component supplier to the manufactured home and recreational vehicle industries, sold 20,000 shares of Patrick common stock at an average price of $59.50 per share for a net transaction of $1,190,715. Currently, Mr. Cleveland owns 405,481 shares of …
Insiders Making News at Patrick Ind. and Sun Communities Read More
All U. S. stock exchanges are closed for the fourth of July holiday.They will reopen tomorrow at 9 AM. Happy Birthday America!! (Photo credit: Wikipedia–New York Stock Exchange) Article submitted by Matthew J Silver and posted to Daily Business News-MHProNews.
Despite the slowdown in the oilfield economy around Odessa, Texas, the population is still growing, especially in the area around West Odessa in Ector County. Local officials estimate based on the number of applications for installing septic systems, which are typically for single-family residences. The 2010 census determined there were …
Manufactured Home Growth Still Alive in West Texas Read More
What’s New in public focused Manufactured HomeLivingNews.com St. Petersburg, FL – Misjudging Mobile Homes – Tale of Two Cities What’s New in Manufactured Housing Industry Professional News House committee requesting documentation from CFPB. Modular apartments replacing old apartment buildings. Zeman plans MH build in Florida. Maine city gets community development …
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MHProNews stated in a post June 14, 2016, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has spent nearly double in advertising this year than for all of 2015, spending 2.5 percent of its budget on ads to reach consumers. As MHProNews noted then, “during the past three years, only the National …
House Committee Pressing CFPB for Advertising Documentation Read More
Following up on a story abut the closing of Odd’s Mobile Home Park in Minot, North Dakota and the subsequent moving of the 31 homes, as MHProNews posted June 3, 2016, minotdailynews reports that problems arose in the moving and re-siting of some of the homes. The city, which bought …
Manufactured Homes Damaged in Moving to other Sites Read More
