One of the biggest reasons manufactured home professionals give as to why more new HUD Code MH homes aren’t sold is due to the public’s perception about durability and safety. While there are several factors that contribute to this impression – including improper use of outdated or demeaning terminology, or …
Gone With the Windstorm – Official Report, Facts on ManuFACTured Home Performance Read More
A new bill introduced to the U.S. House of Representatives by Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), would provide a federal tax incentive for manufactured home community owners who are looking to sell the community, with a catch. That incentive will occur only if they sell their community to residents or to …
Kid Rock is the $80 million dollar net worth country-rock-pop-music icon, who may be running for the U.S. Senate. In an upcoming feature on MHLivingNews, the spotlight will be on this star who is happy to live in a multi-section manufactured home. In fact, his camo manufactured home is prominently …
“Po-Dunk” – Kid Rock’s Video – Features Camo “Double Wide Trailer House” Read More
A little more than a month ago, the Daily Business News reported on Google’s plans to build modular housing to be used as temporary employee dwellings. The plans are clearly moving forward, as Rick Holliday’s Factory_OS facility on Mare Island was touted in a local report by the Times Herald as …
Meet the Modular Housing Builder Google Picked, and their “Industrial Cathedral” Read More
Freestone Capital Management, an investing firm based in Seattle, WA, has spent the last decade working their way into becoming one of the larger owners of manufactured home communities in the United States. Now they are setting their sights on becoming even bigger. And perhaps, going public. It all started …
Barron’s – Will Freestone Capital Become Next Public Manufactured Home Community Operator? Read More
It’s not a secret that the need for affordable housing is a problem in major metro areas throughout the United States. A new Pew Research study reports there are more renters than at any time since 1965. Recent stories coming out of San Francisco are just one example of the …
Secretary Hillary Clinton gave what many felt was a graceful exit speech the morning after her election loss. For his part, then President-elect Donald J. Trump said that he felt differently about going after her for the various allegations of corrupt and illegal activity. He would let that part of …
When much of the news that hits the media about manufactured housing seems from the industry perspective to be biased or negative, it is refreshing when good news about the industry hits the ‘news wires.’ In February, MHProNews brought you information straight from First State Manufactured Housing Association (FSMHA) in …
Association Uses Scholarships to Boost Industry Image While Giving Back Read More
Recently, a manufactured home industry professional said, “We hear about affordable housing all the time.” He then asked – “What is affordable housing? How is it defined?” Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD’s Definition HUD defines “Affordable Housing as those households that are paying 30 percent or less of …
What is Affordable Housing? How Affordable is Manufactured Housing? Read More
In what the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) says is a violation of the Trump Administration’s Executive Orders issued January 20, 2017 to ease regulations, the HUD MH program published an interpretive bulletin (IB) in the Federal Register that will alter the standards for MH foundations in “freezing …
Retailers, Communities, Producers Warned – Another HUD Power Grab Read More
Being “green” is all the rage for millions of Americans. Indeed, sustainability is good – and all forms of modern factory building are demonstrably more sustainable than their on-site built counterparts tend to be. Just the reduction in wasted materials, which sources say runs about 30 percent, is significant for …
Closer Look, VERMOD’s ZEM= Zero Energy Modular – ‘Manufactured Home Replacement’ Read More
“It is of concern to me,” Hjelle said. “We are seeing a significant increase in the affordable housing area, which I would consider starter homes, mobile homes [sic], condos and apartments. More so than in the higher-end homes.” Snohomish (WA) County Assessor Linda Hjelle, was commenting on the increase in …
Social Security disability lawyer Eric C. Conn plead guilty earlier this year to a scheme that defrauded the federal government of over half-a-billion dollars. While a legacy factory-built housing professional yesterday quipped, tongue in cheek, that the real Ponzi scheme is social security itself, “The Conn Mann,” a judge and …
Eric Conn ‘Trailer Law Complex’ Social Security Attorney ‘On the Lam’ Read More
For several years, MHProNews has been following the booming growth of the Bakken oil field in western North Dakota, as in the example that is linked here. The boom created an influx of thousands of job seekers, and their need for prompt availability of homes was primarily met with factory-built, …
Putting the Cart Before the Horse—Er, House—in Montana Read More
The New June 2017 articles on the MHProNews.com home page are live, with the full line up on display at this link here. If you’ve been super busy, traveling, have been on vacation, or are new to the Daily Business News on MHProNews, welcome to our weekly recap of the Manufactured Housing Industry’s “News, Tips …
Sunday Morning Weekly Recap Manufactured Housing Industry News June 18 to June 25, 2017 Read More
The hands down king of affordable permanent housing in the U. S. is single section (a.k.a. ‘single wide’) manufactured homes. On a cost per square foot basis, they are hard to beat, as U.S. Census Bureau – and other research from sources such as Zillow, or the National Association of …
Are Americans Hunting for the Single Sectional Manufactured Home Alternative? Read More
Similar to re-purposing pressures in urban areas in the United States, our manufactured housing neighbors north of the border are facing redevelopment issues that threaten to uproot them from long-standing manufactured home communities. Vancouver, British Columbia is home to approximately 1,000 manufactured home communities, according to the Manufactured Home Park …
Huge Loss to Affordable Housing Stock May Be in Offing Read More
Expert Matthew Wallace, JD, CPA provided the professionals of the manufactured home industry today with a useful article that will be necessary – sooner or later – for millions of home owners who live in a pre-HUD Code mobile home, or a post-code manufactured home. Wallace was keenly welcoming of …
Free Resource for Retailers, Communities, Your Customers and Residents Read More
In response to President Donald J. Trump’s call to proclaim June National Home Ownership month, USDA’s Acting Deputy Undersecretary for Rural Development Roger Glendenning said he celebrates the vital contribution homeowners have made to communities across rural America. “Owning a home provides rural residents a secure environment where they can …
The Chicago Tribune reported earlier this month on a suspicious fire in an Oak Lawn manufactured home community. Two deaths were reported. When law enforcement ruled the matter an alleged case of arson, it made the deaths apparent murders. “Are there murderers here?” – resident Mary Grochola said, per the Tribune, “A …
Fearful Residents Ask, “Are There Murderers Living Here?” Read More
