Maine Modular Manufacturing Homes owner Scott Gove requested a special exemption building permit for a client couple who want to build a modular home on 2.7 acres of family land in Lincoln County, Maine, but the Edgecomb Planning Board denied the building permit application, according to wiscassetnewspaper. After reviewing the …
The infrastructure at the 30 home site Frost Residents Cooperative manufactured home community in Derry, New Hampshire is in need of repair, and the Derry City Council last year authorized an application for Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds to pay for an engineering study of the infrastructure. According to …
Councilors to Discuss Infrastructure at New Hampshire Co-operative Read More
What’s New in public focused Manufactured HomeLivingNews.com Weathering the Storms: How Manufactured Homes Can Do It Better A Surprising Solution to America’s Quality Affordable Housing Crisis Whispering Pines Manufactured Home Community – Somerset PA, Inside MH Video What’s New in Manufactured Housing Industry Professional News FHFA to roll out MH …
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Realizing that a ten-year restriction on manufactured homes (MH) brought into Ruidoso Downs in New Mexico was not realistic because, as Planning and Zoning Director Steve Dunigan said, “You could have a two-year old home that is a disaster versus a 27-year old home that has been kept up,” the …
MHProNews has learned from the Wisconsin Housing Alliance that the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Final Rule that allows manufacturers to complete the construction of manufactured homes on site instead of in the factory with gaining permission. The rule will eliminate the need for time-consuming approval under the …
HUD Finalizes Rule Regarding Onsite Completion of Manufactured Homes Read More
The House Financial Services Committee (HFSC) tells MHProNews the committee’s chairman, Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-TX), delivered an opening statement in advance of the hearing on the semi-annual report of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) with CFPB Director Richard Cordray. Noting a recent series of hearings before the HFSC revealed …
Rep. Jeb Hensarling Opens the Semi-annual CFPB Hearing Read More
MHProNews has learned from heraldpalladium the St. Joseph, Michigan commissioners heard the first reading on plans to alter zoning for multi-family districts so they would better blend in with other parts of the community. The planning commission had been directed to review the city’s R-3 zoning for properties that include …
St. Joseph, Michigan Amends Zoning to allow Manufactured Home Communities Read More
MHProNews has learned from acainternational that the House Financial Services Committee will consider two bills relating to oversight of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) at a hearing Wed., Sept 30, 2015 at 10 AM EST. Rep. Steve Stivers (R-OH) introduced Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection-Inspector General Reform Act of …
House Financial Services to Consider Bills Regarding CFPB Oversight Read More
Following a series of posts MHProNews last published Sept. 24, 2015 regarding modular homes for the homeless in Dublin, Ireland, the city council’s head of housing, Dick Brady, has confirmed the selection of sites has begun. With more than 200 homes to be sited, Brady is looking at vacant council-owned …
The Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) informs MHProNews that data regarding lending at 7,000 financial institutions and covering nearly 10 million mortgage applications and six million loan originations reveals manufactured home lenders are not making HOEPA (Home Ownership and Equity Protection Act) loans because of the increased liability and burdensome rules …
Data Confirms Dodd-Frank Regulations Impede Manufactured Home Loans Read More
What’s New in public focused Manufactured HomeLivingNews.com The Kennedy – Model Home Video Tour – New Durham Estates, Westville, IN Jack and Betsy Norman, Whispering Pines 55+ Manufactured Home Community, Somerset, PA What’s New in Manufactured Housing Industry Professional News Justice Dept. settles two MHC discrimination suits. Judge clears path …
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Montana State District Court Judge George Huss abruptly ended a jury trial early in Bozeman, and awarded a development corporation $650,000 to be paid by the Gallatin County Commission for denying a proposal to develop the Gateway Village subdivision and site factory-built homes, MHProNews has learned. The commission had denied …
Judge Orders Approval of Contested Factory-built Subdivision, Awards $650,000 Read More
As soon as the manufactured home (MH) Donna Lewis purchased for $125,000 arrived, she realized there were problems, according to mynews4 in Reno, Nevada. “The home came severely damaged,” she told us. “It had an accident on the way. It looked like a bomb had gone off. Walls ripped open, …
Production Errors on Manufactured Homes Being Investigated Read More
On the heels of the wild fires that have scorched areas of northern California in recent weeks and destroyed 1,230 homes, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) took an aerial view of the Valley Fire devastation following President Barack Obama’s declaration of Lake County as a disaster zone. FEMA has …
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and Hope Fair Housing tell MHProNews that the DOJ has announced “that the owners and operators of the Williams Trailer Court mobile home park in Marion, Illinois, had agreed to pay $75,000 to settle allegations that they discriminated against African Americans and families with children, …
Justice Strikes Again – another Manufactured Home Operation Settles Case Read More
A major pipeline build covering 52 miles from Cadiz to Canton, Ohio will create 400 jobs in the Dover area to serve as headquarters for the Marathon Oil project constructed by Price Gregory pipeline company, which is leasing 20 acres for offices and storage of tools, materials and equipment, according …
Factory-built Structures will Provide Offices and Storage for Pipeline Build Read More
Following a story MHProNews last posted March 15, 2012 regarding a former Alabama lawmaker who admitted swindling nearly $250,000 from six post-Katrina victims for new modular homes that were never delivered, a judge denied his appeal for freedom in exchange for a down payment on restitution, according to bayoubuzz. John …
Former Lawmaker who Swindled Modular Home Buyers to Remain in Prison Read More
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The Mississippi Regional Housing Summit will be held in Vicksburg beginning Sunday, Sept. 20 through Tue., Sept. 22 to focus on providing affordable housing in the 2nd Congressional District. With 400 people registered to attend, and the first of its kind in the state, it is drawing public officials, vendors, …
In and around Boulder, Colorado are eight manufactured home communities (MHC), with a total of just under 1,600 homes, most of which were built before the federal building standards took effect in June, 1976, as dailycamera reports. Recognizing the importance of the communities as affordable housing in a city not …
Boulder Considers Ways to Protect Land Lease Communities Read More
