MHProNews has been informed by redrocknews that the city of Sedona, Arizona, will receive $309,000 in federal Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds for a citywide housing rehabilitation program. The funds are aimed at helping moderate-to-low-income homeowners make needed health and safety upgrades to their homes. Manufactured homes are included …
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What’s New in public focused Manufactured HomeLivingNews.com Reality Check – Living Better When Quality Living Costs Less Outside the Box: Inventing New Looks for Manufactured Homes What’s New in Manufactured Housing Industry Professional News Manufactured Housing Administrator Danner speaks at Louisville. What could slow retail sales mean for manufactured housing. …
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Pamela Beck Danner, Administrator for the Office of Manufactured Housing at the Department of Housing and Urban Development, addressed attendees at the Louisville Manufactured Housing Show. Danner previous experience includes service as an attorney with the Office of HUD’s General Counsel. In 1982 she was appointed Director of the Office of …
HUD’s Manufactured Housing Head Danner Speaks in Louisville Read More
For the second time in two years, owners of the Bon Ayre manufactured home community (MHC) in Smyrna, Delaware have violated the state’s Rent Justification Act by raising rents beyond the federal consumer price index, without giving a valid reason for the above average increase. Kent County Superior Court Judge …
Manufactured Home Community Owner Challenges Rent Control Read More
Columbia Wanger Asset Management LLC reduced its holdings in factory-built home producer Cavco Industries, Inc. by -27.41 percent, or 702,685 shares, reports fdanewsalert. According to the most recent Security and Exchange Commission filing, 84 investors own Cavco, accounting for 9,213,425 shares. Ten investors opened new Cavco stakes while 29 existing …
Derry, New Hampshire’s Councilors unanimously approved Frost Residents Cooperative application for a Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) of up to $500,000 to connect the 30 home site community to city water and sewer. Built in the 1960s, the community is on private water and septic systems. ”They are failing, and …
Council Approves Block Grant app for Resident-owned Community Read More
The TOPGUN (Tenants of Pine Gardens Uniting Neighbors) Association of Pine Gardens Mobile Home Park in Belmont, New Hampshire will meet at the Belknap County Complex in Laconia, NH, Sat., Jan 30. According to what citizen tells MHProNews. Lois Parris, the president of Manufactured Home Owners and Tenants Association of …
Residents of Pine Gardens Manufactured Home Community to Meet Read More
Retail sales on the year fell to their lowest pace since 2009, climbing only 2.1 percent for the year, the smallest gain since the Great Recession ended, raising concerns about consumer spending going into 2016. As bloomberg informs MHProNews the 0.1 percent drop in Dec., 2015 followed a gain of …
What does collapsing Walmart, other retail sales mean for Manufactured Housing? Read More
Continuing to follow the saga of the Dublin, Ireland, City Council’s attempts to site 500 modular homes to house homeless families in several different areas of the city, as MHProNews last reported Jan. 11, 2016, residents of Belcamp, Coolock are opposing plans to site 38 of the units in their …
Another Irish Neighborhood Leery of Modular Homes for the Homeless Read More
The agenda for the Buncombe County Board of Commissioner’s (North Carolina) retreat scheduled for Tue., Jan 19 includes planning this year’s goals and reviewing progress made on goals from last year reports mountainx. Held in the county building in Asheville, increasing affordable housing was on the agenda last year and …
Allowing Manufactured Homes in all parts of County being Considered Read More
Following a story MHProNews posted Sat., Jan 16 regarding the investment in the manufactured home community (MHC) Pacific Skies Estates in Pacifica, Calif., by the Carlyle Group and subsequent upgrading, smdailyjournal reports the owners and the California Coastal Commission are at odds over whether the work requires a Coastal Development …
Coastal Commission, City of Pacifica Disagree about Permit Read More
What’s New in public focused Manufactured HomeLivingNews.com Bad and Good – Two Sides – Manufactured Home Living and News Reporting What’s New in Manufactured Housing Industry Professional News Ishbel Dickens refuses debate with Carla Burr over PBS NewsHour report. Part of MHC to close. Jurisdiction ready to impose master meter …
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MHProNews published a story Sept. 22, 2015 regarding private equity firm The Carlyle Group’s collaboration with Pacific Skies Estates, a 93 site manufactured home community (MHC) on the Pacific, and investing $42 million to upgrade the community with new, high-end MH that will be rented. The plan includes building a …
Carlyle Group is one Resident Away from Updating Coastal MHC in CA Read More
For over a year Madison Township officials have wanted to put Hidden River South manufactured home community (MHC) in Adrian, Michigan on one master water/sewer meter, but because the management has not been responsive, township officials are considering a condemnation order to install the meter. When the community was built …
Township Set to Impose Master Meter System on Manufactured Home Community Read More
Eight investor-owned utilities in Southern California participating in a program to upgrade old and defective gas pipelines and electric power lines in manufactured homes will pass on the costs to their ratepayers to cover the program. Many of the systems have not been upgraded in decades. Part of the impetus …
Cost of Extensive Utility Upgrades to MHCs will be Borne by all Ratepayers Read More
Amid the pressing need for affordable housing in this country, as rents rise and incomes remain static, a federal tax law enacted last month may lead to the increased production of affordable rental housing, although the rise may be minimal, according to what housing experts tell nationalmortgagenews. A part of …
New Tax Law will only Increase Affordable Housing Units Tepidly Read More
After receiving what he said were threats following a CBS7 report that his son was allegedly taking advantage of customers in his manufactured home business, Odessa, TX businessman Angel Nabarette said of his son’s business, “If anything needs to be reported, it’s that Five Star Manufactured Homes is ripping people …
Manufactured Home Retailer Allegedly Absconds with Customers’ Funds Read More
Opening with an analysis about the dynamics behind mainstream media coverage, MHLivingNews publisher L. A. ‘Tony’ Kovach used that to focus attention on the recent PBS NewsHour report that featured Carla Burr, titled Bad and Good – Two Sides – Manufactured Home Living and News Reporting. Kovach reminds us of the rule of …
Mortgage lenders are reluctant to finance unusual residences because they are difficult to appraise, and if they should fall into foreclosure, they are tough to sell, according to themoretgagereports. The article includes a manufactured home with a couple of barns on ten acres as an unusual asset to evaluate, and …
According to the bemidjipioneer, a public hearing will be held Tue., Jan 19 to consider the closure of the western half of the Westwood Acres Mobile Home Park in Bemidji, Minnesota. Although no reason was given for the closing, the hearing is to discuss the impact of the closing of …
