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Jul 16 2013

Exemption for certain Manufactured Housing Appraisals on Tap

By Matthew Silver / July 16, 2013 July 16, 2013 / Advocacy, Business, Factory-Built Homes, home buyers, Legal, Legislation, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes

On July 10th, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), in cooperation with five other federal agencies, issued joint proposed regulations providing exemptions from appraisal requirements for certain higher-priced mortgage loans (HPMLs), which would include manufactured home loans. Imposed by the Dodd-Frank Act, mortgage loans are considered to be higher-priced if …

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Jul 16 2013

City Planners Restricting Manufactured Housing Sites

By Matthew Silver / July 16, 2013 July 16, 2013 / Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, regulation, Zoning

The Magnolia, Ark. Planning and Zoning Commission has proposed restricting manufactured homes (MH) to R-3 zoning, thereby keeping it out of R-2 and R-1 zoning. The new measure would require amending zoning laws for most of this whole city, located in southwestern Arkansas, as MHProNews has learned, affecting hundreds of …

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Jul 15 2013

Request Approved to Site Manufactured Homes

By Matthew Silver / July 15, 2013 July 15, 2013 / Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, regulation

Following the recommendation made by the Sapulpa Metro Area Planning Commission, the Creek County Commissioners in Sapulpa, Okla. granted a zoning request for manufactured homes to be sited in an area once zoned A-1 agriculture. According to what sapulpaheraldonline tells MHProNews, the change to the RMH-1 status is the most …

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Jul 12 2013

Suit Seeks to Halt Large Modular Housing Project

By Matthew Silver / July 12, 2013 July 12, 2013 / Business, Company News, Factory-Built Homes, Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Modular

Updating a story we last posted Jan 29, 2013 regarding Forest City Ratner’s 32-story modular housing project in Brooklyn’s Atlantic Yards, two trade unions have sued to block the project. The Mechanical Contractors Association and the Plumbing Foundation allege Buildings Department Commissioner Robert LiMandri sidestepped a promise to use only …

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Jul 12 2013July 12, 2013

Modular Classroom will Transform into Office Space

By Matthew Silver / July 12, 2013 July 12, 2013 / Factory-Built Homes, Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Modular

The Hightstown Borough Council in central New Jersey is considering purchasing a used modular classroom for office space to be sited behind the Public Works building. Another option would be to rent a temporary facility, but James LeTellier, police director and interim borough administrator, said it is better to invest …

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Jul 11 2013

Manufactured Home to be Replaced with Apartments

By Matthew Silver / July 11, 2013 July 11, 2013 / Business, Company News, Legal, Manufactured Homes, Zoning

The planning commission in Juneau, Alaska has approved a conditional use permit to replace a manufactured home site with a twelve unit multifamily apartment building. Proposed by Delta Park LLC, the two-story structure will sit on a parcel of land zoned for 18 dwelling per acre. Building projects have increased …

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Jul 11 2013

FEMA Disaster Housing: Manufactured Homes instead of Park Models

By Matthew Silver / July 11, 2013 July 11, 2013 / Advocacy, Business, Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes

A switch by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) from Park Model homes to manufactured homes for disaster housing has some FEMA field staff members, among others, shaking their heads. According to the Homeland Security Dept. Office of the Inspector General (OIG), the larger manufactured homes often require siting in …

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Jul 11 2013July 10, 2013

Approval Required before Buying Manufactured Home

By Matthew Silver / July 11, 2013 July 10, 2013 / Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, regulation

The Eutaw (Ala.) City Council in west-central Alabama near the Miss. border has reaffirmed a 2006 ordinance requiring manufactured home owners who want to replace their existing home with a new one to obtain formal approval from the zoning board in advance. Located in west-central Alabama near the Miss. border, MHProNews …

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Jul 11 2013July 10, 2013

City Revises Manufactured Housing Rule to be in Sync with State Law

By Matthew Silver / July 11, 2013 July 10, 2013 / home buyers, Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes

The Liberty City Council in Liberty, Tex., just northeast of Houston, revised its ordinance regarding the replacement of a manufactured home destroyed in a natural disaster so it aligns with state law. A home ruined by a fire or natural catastrophe does not count under the one-time replacement rule as …

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Jul 10 2013

Iowa PAC Produces Results for the Manufactured Housing Industry

By Matthew Silver / July 10, 2013 July 10, 2013 / Advocacy, Legal, Legislation, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, People

Joe Kelly, executive vice-president of the Iowa Manufactured Housing Association (IAMHA), reports the Manufactured Housing Political Action (MHPAC) fund has raised $16,655 this year. He says the fund began the year at zero because all the funds had been spent on the elections in 2012 to good effect: Manufactured housing …

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Jul 10 2013

National Association of Home Builders Sounds the Alarm

By Matthew Silver / July 10, 2013 July 10, 2013 / Advocacy, home buyers, Legal, Legislation, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, regulation

The U.S. Senate is considering rewriting the tax code which could eliminate housing tax incentives and thereby negatively affect all home residential construction businesses as well as home values, taxes, and the economy in general. The mortgage interest deduction and the Low Income Housing Tax Credit could both be at …

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Jul 9 2013July 9, 2013

School Building Manufactured Home Community for Staff

By Matthew Silver / July 9, 2013 July 9, 2013 / Communities, Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes

The Midland City Council in Midland, Tex. approved a one-year temporary use permit for a 70-unit manufactured home community to house Midland Independent School District’s (ISD) teachers and other employees. Updating a story MHProNews posted June 25, 2013, the council chose to develop ISD owned property instead of leasing sites …

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Jul 9 2013

Manufactured Housing Community to Close, may be Rebuilt

By Matthew Silver / July 9, 2013 July 9, 2013 / Advocacy, Communities, Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, regulation

Debate continues in Williamstown, Mass. about the feasibility of retaining a 224 homesite manufactured housing community that sits in a 100-year flood plain for affordable housing. The Board of Selectmen of Williamstown, Mass. has voted to ask the Conservation Commission to remove the site from conservation restrictions, and then inquire …

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Jul 9 2013July 8, 2013

Owners Request Move out of Manufactured Home Designation

By Matthew Silver / July 9, 2013 July 8, 2013 / Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, People

The Watertown Plan Commission in South Dakota has received a petition from Douglas and Teresa Engels to rezone a property currently designated R-4 Manufactured Home Residential District and C-3 Highway Commercial District to C-2 Local Commercial District. The petition will be considered by the plan commission July 18, as MHProNews …

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Jul 8 2013July 7, 2013

Mortgage Finance Reform Tops Congressional Agenda

By Matthew Silver / July 8, 2013 July 7, 2013 / Advocacy, Business, Economy, Finance, home buyers, Legal, Legislation, Manufactured and Modular Housing News

House Republicans, led by Rep. Jeb Hensarling of Tex., Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, are getting set to introduce mortgage finance reform legislation that will totally eliminate government sponsored enterprises (GSEs) and replace them with a private system. Knowing all the features are not likely to pass, the …

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Jul 5 2013

Smoke Alarms Compulsory in South Carolina Manufactured Homes

By Matthew Silver / July 5, 2013 July 5, 2013 / Advocacy, Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, People, regulation

Citizen SAFE (Smoke Alarm and Fire Education) is a proactive program involving firefighters going door-to-door to check residential smoke alarms and batteries, and offer to do a free home safety inspection. The St. John’s Fire and Rescue Dept. conducts the inspections on the first and third Saturdays of each month …

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Jul 5 2013

California Manufactured Housing Code to be Presented

By Matthew Silver / July 5, 2013 July 5, 2013 / Communities, Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, mobile home, regulation

Title 25 California Code of Regulations, which apply to the construction, use, maintenance and occupancy of manufactured homes will be the topic at the next North Santa Barbara County Manufactured Homeowners Team meeting. City of Santa Maria and Santa Barbara County inspectors will be the speakers for the July 22 …

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Jul 5 2013

Ordinances Prevent Rehabbing of Land Lease Community

By Matthew Silver / July 5, 2013 July 5, 2013 / Business, Communities, Company News, Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, Zoning

Having recently spent $55,000 to upgrade infrastructure at the Country Squire Mobile Home Park in Harker Heights, Tex., that he acquired last fall, and another $30,000 for a new manufactured home model, Kip Lewis’ plans to rehabilitate the community are being stymied by the city council. He wants to replace …

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Jul 3 2013

Developer Continues its Pursuit of Manufactured Housing Community

By Matthew Silver / July 3, 2013 July 3, 2013 / Business, Communities, Company News, Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes

Updating a story that began in 2006 when Garden Homes Management Corp. initially proposed a 124 site manufactured housing community in Oxford, Conn. that has been fraught with numerous hearings, court rulings, wetlands studies, appeals and professional reviews that we last covered Nov. 29, 2012, Garden Homes has a new …

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Jul 3 2013July 31, 2013

Manufactured Housing Community Closing, Residents must move by Aug. 31

By Matthew Silver / July 3, 2013 July 31, 2013 / Business, Communities, Factory-Built Homes, Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, RV, Zoning

Residents of the Dallas West Mobile Home/RV Park in Dallas, Tex. just minutes from downtown received fliers June 11 announcing they had until Aug. 31 to move or face eviction. Dallas-based Cienda Partners bought the property in 2006, one year after the city council rezoned the community for apartments, and …

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