From Texas, the Grapevine Courier reports that residents of older mobile homes are protesting a code crackdown of sorts. Residents of the Trailwood Mobile Home Estates told the reporter the city is threatening them with code violations in an attempt to shut down the community. City Community Services Director Scott …
From Long Island, Hamptons.com reports that Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele, Jr., Assemblyman Dan Losquadro and State Senator Kenneth P. LaValle have introduced New York state legislation to allow manufactured home community tenants to challenge rent increases. The report indicates some manufactured home owners are seeing rent increases of as much as …
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From Michigan, the Daily Press and Argus reports that a federal lawsuit has been dismissed in which more than 50 residents claimed Green Oak Township unlawfully restricts and removes older mobile homes in a manufactured home community there. According to the report, last March, residents of Woodland Ridge manufactured home …
From Iowa, the Press-Citizen reports that new legislation addresses abuses tied to sales and living conditions in the state’s oldest manufactured homes reported in a Des Moines Register investigative series over the past year. The report indicates key provisions of the bill include sweeping changes in how much information community …
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Residents of Park Plaza Estates in Fridley, Minnesota now own and control their 90-home manufactured home community. The homeowners came together, formed a cooperative and purchased their community from the previous investor ownership entity. This group of homeowners will join the other 1,000-plus resident-owned communities across the United States. Of …
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Riverine Development, Inc. first proposed this manufactured homes project near Ann Arbor, Michigan in 2004, according to AnnArbor.com. After numerous battles involving Superior Township officials and residents, judges, the developer, state environmental quality control and the state attorney general, the outcome is still in doubt. The focus has been on …
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The Utah legislature is set to hear discussion on a proposed bill that would set up an arbitration mechanism between homeowners and community owners. This bill would charge community owners an annual $10 fee to fund a potential mediation process. Homeowners claim they are at the mercy of the community …
According to the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI)’s Monthly Economic Report, just under 2,800 new single and double section HUD code homes were shipped in December 2010, down 22.2 percent from the previous December. On the year, total shipments numbered 50,046 as compared to 49,789 for 2009. Total floors shipped in …
From Maine, the Kennebec Journal ran an article about last weekend’s manufactured housing show. The article focuses on attendees, including Deb Parry and John Harker who came looking for a smaller, more efficient retirement home that allows for low maintenance. They were also looking to save money through energy efficiency. …
Overall, Fannie Mae financing for multi-family rental properties dropped from $19.8 billion in 2009 to $16.9 billion in 2010, a 14 percent decrease. According to Housingwire, financing for manufactured housing communities dropped more than 50 percent, from $1.1 billion in 2009 to $540 million last year. Senior housing projects financing …
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The Press of Atlantic City ran a story recently encouraging readers to thing of manufactured housing as affordable rather than mobile. The newspaper calls the product “one of the few remaining means of comfortable yet affordable home ownership in New Jersey.” The article refers to Atlantic Gardens in Egg Harbor, …
Through the combination of government funding, and community donations and support, the modular homes that housed Olympic athletes during last year’s winter games will now be home to people with mental health problems who otherwise might be at risk for homelessness. According to British Columbia’s Coast Reporter, the $3.7 million …
From the Keystone State, from the Lebanon News comes a story about residents considering legal options to try to prevent the owners of Northcrest Acres from forcing them to install new storage tanks for kerosene or fuel oil or to switch to propane. Lawyers are expected to argue the conversion …
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From Maine, the Times-Record notes the 23rd annual Maine Manufactured Housing Show will be held at the civic center in Augusta this coming Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Four modular and eight manufactured homes will be on display. More information is available by calling 207-865-1196.
From Florida, TCPalm.com reports that residents of Barefoot Bay have voted against becoming Brevard County’s 17th municipality. Straw poll results show 63 households want a committee to continue studying incorporation of the sprawling manufactured housing community, but 620 households voted to drop the campaign. Developed during the 1970s as Florida’s …
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From Texas, WacoTrib.com reports a Clayton Homes plant there has been honored with the 2010 President’s Cup award as the best overall plant in terms of satisfaction, profitability, sales and safety in the system. The plant has been operating since 1982. A second plant in the town earned the award …
A California state legislator is looking into a bill that would allow city and county governments, when successful in defending rent control ordinances, to charge the party who brought the challenge for the government’s legal expenses, according to the San Jose Mercury News. A representative of Assemblyman Bill Monning, D-Carmel, …
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While manufactured homes in the United States are somewhat distinct from other forms of both factory-built and site-built housing because they follow federal manufacturing and safety standards, Kathleen Maynard, Executive Director and CEO of the Canadian Manufactured Housing Institute explains in an exclusive interview with MHMSM.com that there is no …
From North Carolina, Chapel Hill News featured a story on the development of Clayton’s i-house. The article says the home, originally unveiled in 2009, was the result of Kevin Clayton’s goal was to bring sustainable and energy-efficient housing to those who typically could not afford it. The i-house comes in …
MHI held a conference call with 37 member state association executives and their staffs on Thursday, January 20. During the call, MHI staff discussed new Congressional membership of the House Financial Services Committee and the Senate Banking Committee. Discussed were MHI actions related to the review and reform of Dodd-Frank …
