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Nov 9 2015November 9, 2015

Kentucky Judge Refuses to Dismiss Lawsuit against Land Lease Community Owner

By Matthew Silver / November 9, 2015 November 9, 2015 / Business, Communities, Company News, Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes

MHProNews has learned from nkytribune a Jefferson County, Kentucky judge has refused to dismiss a lawsuit brought by a former resident of a manufactured home community (MHC) against the community owner, Erlanger, KY-based SSK Communities. Virginia Chappell, who lived in Autumn Lake Pointe MHC (MHC) in southwest Jefferson County, KY, …

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Nov 8 2015November 8, 2015

Sunday Morning Recap-Manufactured Housing Industry News Nov. 1-Nov. 8, 2015

By Matthew Silver / November 8, 2015 November 8, 2015 / Advocacy, Business, Communities, Company News, Factory-Built Homes, Finance, home buyers, Legal, Legislation, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, Modular, People, regulation, RV, Stocks, Trends

What’s New in public focused Manufactured HomeLivingNews.com From Condo to Upscale Manufactured Home Living – John & Joyce Walter, Oshtemo, MI – Inside MH Road Show Vide Olga Pecanac, Olga’s Place Pizza & Euro Restaurant, Westville, IN – U.S. Destination – Pure Fun! Reinventing HUD’s role in Quality Affordable Housing, …

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Nov 6 2015

Re-Asserting HUD’s Affordable Housing Mission

By Matthew Silver / November 6, 2015 November 6, 2015 / Advocacy, Business, Communities, Economy, home buyers, Legal, Legislation, Manufactured and Modular Housing News

Responding to House Financial Service Chairman Rep. Jeb Hensarling’s (R-TX) request for ideas on addressing poverty and home affordability, MHProNews and ManufacturedHomeLIvingNews publisher L. A. “Tony” Kovach documents HUD’s failure to promote manufactured housing as affordable housing. In Re-inventing HUD’s Role in Quality Affordable Housing, Kovach points out the percentage …

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Nov 6 2015November 5, 2015

Three New Senior Land Lease Communities Rising in New Jersey

By Matthew Silver / November 6, 2015 November 5, 2015 / Business, Communities, Company News, Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, Zoning

Residents questioned the Upper Township Planning Board in Upper Township, New Jersey about two manufactured home communities (MHC) for seniors, one with 110 home sites in Seaville and another one that is proposed in Palermo. Ground was broken last month for the community in Seaville, planned by Ocean City developer …

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Nov 5 2015November 5, 2015

Manufactured Home Tax Bill rises from $6 to over $400

By Matthew Silver / November 5, 2015 November 5, 2015 / Business, Communities, Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes

MHProNews has learned from koin-tv in Hillsboro, Oregon that manufactured homes in a community may increase in value without any improvement being made to the home. Alice Siller’s MH was built in the 1980s, and has been valued at $12,000 for tax purposes, which cost her $6 a year. Then …

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Nov 5 2015February 17, 2016

Sprinkler Mandate in Maryland Dampening Home Building

By Matthew Silver / November 5, 2015 February 17, 2016 / Advocacy, Business, Factory-Built Homes, home buyers, Legal, Legislation, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Modular, regulation

Updating a continuing story MHProNews last posted Oct. 9, 2015 regarding mandated sprinklers in new home construction in Maryland, modularhomecoach reports the legislation may have formed a rallying cry for on-site and off-site builders to join forces, and attempt to have the law rescinded. The regulation will cover manufactured homes …

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Nov 4 2015November 16, 2015

Freddie Mac Drowns in Red; CEO Layton says Lenders need to Lower Down Payment

By Matthew Silver / November 4, 2015 November 16, 2015 / Business, Economy, Finance, home buyers, Legal, Legislation, Manufactured and Modular Housing News

On the news of Freddie Mac reporting a net loss of $475 million for the third quarter of 2015, significantly down from the net income of $4.2 billion for the same quarter 2014—the first time in four years– MHProNews has learned from housingwire that Freddie Mac CEO Donald Layton is …

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Nov 4 2015November 23, 2015

Site Set for 40 Manufactured Homes in Wildfire Area

By Matthew Silver / November 4, 2015 November 23, 2015 / Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, People

Following the continuing saga of survivors of the Butte and Valley wildfires in Northern California as MHProNews last posted Oct. 23, 2015, record-bee reports the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has identified the Clearlake Resort and Campground near Lakeport as a site that will accommodate 40 manufactured homes. Another location …

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Nov 3 2015

Sun Announces Public Offering of Common Stock

By Matthew Silver / November 3, 2015 November 3, 2015 / Business, Communities, Company News, Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, RV, Stocks

Manufactured home community (MHC) owner Sun Communities, Inc. (NYSE:SUI) has announced the underwritten public offering of 3,250,000 shares of its common stock at $65.00 per share, according to marketwatch. Moreover, the underwriters receive a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 487,500 shares. BofA Merrill Lynch, Citigroup and BMO …

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Nov 3 2015

Nathan Smith Tapped to serve on Airport Board

By Matthew Silver / November 3, 2015 November 3, 2015 / Business, Communities, Company News, Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, People

Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear has chosen SSK Communities owner and co-founder Nathan Smith to serve on the reorganized 13-member Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport (CVG) board of directors. He is the only board member selected directly by the KY governor. The other members are nominated from the KY counties adjoining the …

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Nov 3 2015

Kansas County Eases Upgrade on Manufactured Home Replacement

By Matthew Silver / November 3, 2015 November 3, 2015 / home buyers, Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, mobile home, regulation, Zoning

The Seward County, Kansas commissioners have agreed to ease restrictions on replacing a manufactured or mobile home with a newer model by not requiring the owner to apply for a special zoning exception, which necessitates a public hearing with board of zoning appeals. As leaderandtimes tells MHProNews, the planning commission …

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Nov 2 2015

Fire Safety in the Modern Manufactured Home

By Matthew Silver / November 2, 2015 November 2, 2015 / Advocacy, Business, Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, regulation

A report by the National Fire Prevention Association’s (NFPA) John R. Hall, Jr., entitled Manufactured Home Fires documents that manufactured homes (MH), built after 1976 when MH production fell under the dictates of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), are more fire-resistant than comparable site-built homes. The study …

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Nov 1 2015October 31, 2015

Sunday Morning Recap-Manufactured Housing Industry News Oct. 25-Nov. 1, 2015

By Matthew Silver / November 1, 2015 October 31, 2015 / Advocacy, Business, Communities, Company News, Economy, Factory-Built Homes, home buyers, Legal, Legislation, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, Modular, People, Stocks

What’s New in public focused Manufactured HomeLivingNews.com Keeping the Home Fires from Burning: Fire Safety and the Modern Manufactured Home Robert Gann, Chet Murphree, Deer Valley Homebuilders, Guin AL – Inside MH Video Tours What’s New in Manufactured Housing Industry Professional News Quarter financials spike Cavco’s stock. MHARR, MHI respond …

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Oct 31 2015October 31, 2015

Co-op Residents get Assist from Software to Operate Communities

By Matthew Silver / October 31, 2015 October 31, 2015 / Business, Communities, Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, People

Manufactured home communities (MHC) play an important role in meeting the need for affordable housing across the U. S., reports usda.gov. If they become a cooperative, the residents have a major responsibility to govern and manage their ownership rights, reports John McNamara, a Cooperative Development Specialist with the Northwest Cooperative …

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Oct 30 2015November 5, 2015

MHI Responds to Rep. Hensarling’s Request

By Matthew Silver / October 30, 2015 November 5, 2015 / Advocacy, Economy, home buyers, Legal, Legislation, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes

In response to a request from House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling for ideas to address housing affordability and poverty, the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) offered constructive suggestions on improving regulations and programs that affect the manufactured home industry. In addition to shepherding H. R. 650, the Preserving Access …

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Oct 29 2015

MH Industry Perturbed by NY State Administrative Agency Position

By Matthew Silver / October 29, 2015 October 29, 2015 / Advocacy, Business, home buyers, Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, People

Prior to the opening of the NY Housing Association’s 65th annual meeting, manufactured housing industry circles took a bit of umbrage at the remarks of George Moorehouse, a NY Code Enforcement Official who allegedly said “In ten years there will be no more new manufactured housing placed in the state …

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Oct 29 2015October 28, 2015

Large Florida Manufactured Home Community on the Drawing Board

By Matthew Silver / October 29, 2015 October 28, 2015 / Business, Communities, Company News, Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes

With unanimous approval from the Avon Park City Council on first reading, one hundred thirty-four acres of groves in Avon Park, Florida may soon become the largest manufactured home subdivision in the city, and one of the largest in Highlands County, as highlandstoday tells MHProNews. Avon Park City Manager Julian …

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Oct 28 2015October 28, 2015

Deadline for Comments on HUD Program Rapidly Approaching

By Matthew Silver / October 28, 2015 October 28, 2015 / Advocacy, Legal, Legislation, Manufactured and Modular Housing News

In noting the 50th anniversary of former President Lyndon Johnson’s legislation creating the Department of Housing and Urban Development as a means to provide housing assistance in a growing urban population, Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) has issued a challenge to the public for assistance in solving the …

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Oct 27 2015November 5, 2015

MHARR White Paper to Jeb Hensarling on HUD

By Matthew Silver / October 27, 2015 November 5, 2015 / Advocacy, home buyers, Legal, Legislation, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes

Washington, D.C., October 27, 2015 – MHARR informs MHProNews that in response to an invitation by House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) to “bring new ideas to the table on how best to fight the problems of poverty and housing affordability” on the 50th anniversary of the legislation …

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Oct 27 2015October 27, 2015

Health Insurance Firm Funds MHC Cooperatives

By Matthew Silver / October 27, 2015 October 27, 2015 / Advocacy, Communities, home buyers, Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes

As a ROC USA™ Certified Technical Assistance Provider, the Northcountry Cooperative Foundation provides education, technical assistance, encouragement and services to cooperative organizations. According to publicnewsservce, there are roughly 1,000 manufactured home communities in Minnesota with a population just under 200,000 people, about six percent of the state’s populace. Warren Kramer, …

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