A manufactured housing community has been condemned and ordered shuttered and the residents given ten days to evacuate after the Ingham County Health Department in Lansing, Michigan discovered raw sewage on the grounds and solid waste strewn about. Hundreds of people living in 85 homes at the Life O’Riley Mobile …
License to Operate Suspended at Land Lease Community Read More
The Plantation on the Lake manufactured home community (MHC) in Calimesa, California intends to exercise its option to build the remaining seven percent of the home sites to which it is entitled, bringing the total number of sites to 562, according to newsmirror.net. Forty-seven new homesites were approved by the …
Updating a story MHProNews.com last published Nov. 8, 2013 regarding flood-prone Spruces Mobile Home Park in Williamstown, Massachusetts, town Selectmen signed a notice of discontinuance that will close the community Feb. 29, 2016. According to the Massachusetts Manufactured Housing Act, residents are entitled to at least two years written notice …
Sponsored by House Financial Services Committee member Rep. Sean Duffy (R-WI), the Consumer Financial Freedom and Washington Accountability Act, HR 3193, passed on a mostly party-line vote, would replace the director with a five-member commission and give Congress oversight of the budget. House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) …
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Reform Bill Passes House Read More
The U. S. Senate Banking Committee leaders have made a housing finance overhaul bill one the committee’s top priorities, and ranking member Sen. Mike Crapo (R-ID) says he and Chairman Tim Johnson (D-SD) hope to produce their long-awaited housing bill by the end of March, according to POLITICO Pro. Sen. …
In the late 1990s Wisconsin had a higher crash rate at intersections than the national average, motivating the state department of transportation to build European-style traffic circles, or roundabouts, on state and county roads, some 280 of them with another 90 planned. A state lawmaker has suggested the decision to …
The Kilgore (Texas) City Council at its regular session will consider a request to change the zoning of property located east of the intersection of Peavine and Harvey Roads from commercial to single-family manufactured housing, according to news-journal.com. Kilgore is in northeast Texas, east of Dallas. MHProNews.com knows Texas is …
Applicant Requests Property be Rezoned for Manufactured Home Read More
In a commentary by MHProNews.com‘s publisher L. A. ‘Tony” Kovach, noting a recent advertisement by the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) targeted to industry lenders who are members of the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) in an attempt to have them join MHARR, he alludes to a 1971 Pogo …
Pooling Resources for Manufactured Housing, or Pulling them Apart? Read More
Updating a story MHProNews.com last covered Jan. 14, 2014 regarding a subsidiary of Santee Modular Homes in Orangeburg County, South Carolina suing the county over a debris removal contract, the public works department had sufficient manpower for cleanup in the wake of the recent ice storm. The lawsuit asked for …
Following up on an article MHProNews.com published Feb. 18 regarding the possible closure of the Applewood Park manufactured housing community (MHC) in Midvale, Utah, state representative Tim Cosgrove (D-Murray) has introduced HB 108 that would establish a task force to identify issues dealing with manufactured home ownership. Noting 10,000 seniors …
Bill Establishing Manufactured Housing Task Force Filed Read More
The Dobson, North Carolina Board of Commissioners unanimously approved a rezoning request to convert property originally zoned RS, residential suburban, to RMS, residential manufactured home (MH), which allows the landowner to site an additional MH in a manufactured home community (MHC). As mtairynews.com informs MHProNews.com, landowner Harry Folger purchased two …
One of the highlights of the Manufactured Housing Institute’s (MHI) Winter Meeting Feb. 9-11 was the day manufactured housing professionals from the entire spectrum of the industry visited Capitol Hill to speak directly with their Congressional representatives. After a breakfast/pep talk with Rep. Andy Barr (R-KY), a member of the …
Landmark Properties wants to redevelop the 56-site Arrowhead Village manufactured housing community (MHC) in Flagstaff, Arizona into a 191-unit student housing complex. As the azdailysun.com reports, a meeting designed to meet the city’s zoning requirements and introduce the project to the public drew 100 people who wanted to know about …
Manufactured Housing Community Owner Plans Redevelopment Read More
Using the H-2A visa foreign guestworker program to harvest fruit crops in Washington state requires the growers to provide housing for the workers. In 2013 there were 6,221 employees under the program, many living in manufactured homes, 12 to a home, that accompany the fields of the larger growers. This …
Pat Withrow, a candidate for sheriff of San Joaquin County, just east of San Francisco, says modular housing for inmates would ease overcrowding at the main jail, and could be built quicker than traditional construction. As centralvalleybusinesstimes.com informs MHProNews.com, Withrow says the county has the highest recidivism rate of all …
Following a story MHProNews.com posted earlier today, Feb. 18, about a boil water order for Ripley’s Manufactured Home Community in Muscatine, Iowa, muscatinejournal.com reports that the boil order remains in effect through today until the water can be tested for bacteria. The well malfunction has since been repaired, although several …
The Virginia Manufactured and Modular Housing Association (VAMMHA) tells MHProNews.com legislation in the House of Delegates, SB363, supported by VAMMHA, will streamline the titling process of manufactured homes and allow for the re-titling of homes severed from real property. If the measure passes through the subcommittee of the House Transportation …
Legislation could Affect Titling of Manufactured Homes Read More
The Emmet County Board of Supervisors in Estherville, Iowa has granted a $448 tax abatement to the Green Acres manufactured housing community (MHC) for an abandoned home no one has lived in or paid taxes on for four years. As the esthervilledailynews.com tells MHProNews.com, Treasurer Vickie Jurrens attempted several times …
The Municipal Planning Commission in Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada is considering a modular home community just north of the Trans-Canada Highway if the city council agrees to rezone what has been prime highway commercial property. The first phase of the project would include 85 modular home sites on 15 acres. …
Noting the flack Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director (CFPB) Richard Cordray received about manufactured housing when he recently appeared before the House Financial Services Committee, Doug Ryan of CFED says the criticisms are misguided, although the testimony did bring attention to the 20 million people who live in manufactured housing. …
CFED’s Ryan says Future of Affordable Living Depends on Manufactured Housing Read More
