A new year, a new month, and a new set of featured articles are found on the MHProNews.com home page. Our theme for this month is: Jiu Jitsu January in Manufactured Homeland, USA. To see the line-up of over 3-dozen featured articles for this month, along with the headline commentary, …
A new year, a new month, and a new set of featured articles are found on the MHProNews.com home page. Our theme for will be posted on the Masthead blog Tuesday. More Featured Articles will be posted Tuesday, including addtional ones that are upcoming trade show related. To see the …
A Montana and Idaho nonprofit agency has launched a program to help people who live in what they called “mobile homes” to make repairs and improvements without having to resort to taking out high interest loans. Missoula based Montana and Idaho Community Development Corp. (MICDC) is rolling out the new …
Agency Offers “Mobile Home Improvement Loans” for Communities and Homes Read More
Pitkin County, Colorado commissioners have elected to advance their planned acquisition of the 76.3 acre Phillips Mobile Home Park in Snowmass, with a focus on preserving affordable housing options. According to the Aspen Daily News, current owner, Helen Noyes, and her son, Hiram, have continued to maintain the property as …
County to Buy Manufactured Home Community, to Preserve Affordable Housing Read More
In a hotly contested property rights versus residents rights case, originally covered by the Daily Business News in September, a Santa Clara County, California Superior Court judge has reversed an order to close Buena Vista Mobile Home Park, Palo Alto’s last manufactured home community, based on a court filing from …
Judge Reverses Controversial Decision to Close Manufactured Home Community Read More
In a follow up to a story that the Daily Business News originally covered in October, hundreds of residents are now facing imminent eviction from the East End Mobile Home Park in Manassas, Virginia. And, once again, they are asking the city council to help. But they feel that they …
Residents Facing Eviction Ask City Council for Lifeline Read More
As December rolls on, the current featured articles are found on the MHProNews home page. Our theme for this month is: DAAD = Dramatic! Advent! Adventure! December 2016! To see the line-up of over 3-dozen featured articles for this month, along with the headline commentary, please click the link above. Manufactured, …
An O’Fallon, Illinois “mobile home” resident took a cold matter into their own hands. It didn’t end well. A resident’s effort to warm frozen pipes under his home resulted in a fire and smoke damage on December 18th. Per the Belleville News-Democrat, the home’s resident told officials that he was …
Blowtorching A ‘Mobile Home?’ Bad Idea, Says Official Read More
As December rolls on, a new set of featured articles are found on the MHProNews’ home page. Our theme for this month is: DAAD = Dramatic! Advent! Adventure! December 2016! To see the line-up of over 3-dozen featured articles for this month, along with the headline commentary, please click the link …
“The HUD Code has de facto become a discrimination code,” attorney Marty Lavin told MHProNews some months ago. Lavin – an award-winning expert with decades of manufactured home lending, communities and retailing experience – was pointing to incidents like the one in the Meyersdale Borough Council, near Somerset, Pennsylvania. The council …
Some manufactured home community residents and advocates in Oregon feel there’s a disconnect when it comes to enforcement of the law. “There are more than 1,000 manufactured home/mobile home communities in Oregon,” says Rita Loberger, a volunteer resident advocate for the Manufactured Housing/Oregon State Tenants Association. “Right now, it’s …
Manufactured Home Owner or Community – Who’s Responsible? Read More
The Linton, Indiana City Council voted on December 12th to move forward with a manufacturing housing ordinance, which will require all future manufactured homes to be in a manufactured home community. The controversial motion passed with a 3-2 vote, with council members Tony Richards and Linda Bedwell casting dissenting votes. …
City Council Approves Controversial Manufactured Housing Ordinance Read More
A resident of a manufactured home community in Bradenton, Florida who was helping clean out a neighbor’s home Saturday morning was greeted with a nasty surprise – a grenade strapped to a package with a highly flammable substance. According to a news release, the resident of the manufactured home at …
Dangerous Surprise Found by Neighbor Cleaning Out Manufactured Home Read More
As December rolls on, a new set of featured articles are found on the MHProNews.com home page. Our theme for this month is: DAAD = Dramatic! Advent! Adventure! December 2016! To see the line-up of over 3-dozen featured articles for this month, along with the headline commentary, please click the link …
New York State Homes and Community Renewal Commissioner James S. Rubin have announced a $2 million pilot program to address the needs with numerous pre-HUD Code mobile homes as well as older manufactured homes in disrepair to preserve an important source of affordable housing in New York. According to RealEstateRama, …
NYS Homes, Community Renewal Announce Program to Replace old Mobile/Manufactured Homes Read More
In El Cajon, California, residents of the Starlight and Greenfield Mobile Homes Estates gathered at a local elementary school for a presentation about an underground trichloroethylene chemical plume that they believe causes a threat to their communities and the school. Trichloroethylene is considered the most serious and concentrated of several industrial solvents …
MH Communities Threatened by Toxic Plume, Questions Remain Read More
In Greene County, Indiana, the Linton city council voted to move forward with a controversial ordinance. The vote, which required the mayor to break a tie, approved a measure stating all future manufactured homes brought into the city must be moved into a manufactured home community. “What I’m going to …
Proposed Council Ordinance Sparks Property Rights, Discrimination Discussion Read More
State officials continue to investigate what happened at a Richmond, Rhode Island manufactured home cooperative. The Westerly Sun reports that state police are trying to figure out what happened to missing money at the Hillside Mobile Home Park, which led to the arrest of the co-op’s president, Maria Tavares on …
Money Missing from MH Cooperative, President Arrested Read More
Manufactured housing professionals know the benefits of living in a manufactured home. But tens of millions in the public have little or no clue. That high value proposition can include pre-HUD Code mobile homes, as well as post code manufactured housing. So there is on ongoing need for manufactured housing …
October is Fire Safety Month — for good reason. The risk of fire rises significantly in fall and winter and fire prevention experts are working overtime to get the word out on special hazards of the season. According to the Electrical Safety Foundation International (ESFI), more home fires occur during …
Fire Safety Month for All Housing, Including Safer Manufactured Homes Read More
