On the northwest side of San Antonio, a literally smelly controversy has been brewing. According to multiple news sources, including the San Antonio Current, the owner of Oak Hollow Mobile Home Park has been served a cease and desist by the city. The order tells him to stop lying to …
City tells Community Owner, Stop Lying – called a “Slumlord” Read More
In the aftermath of Hurricane Matthew, a number of cities and towns from Florida to North Carolina are beginning to see the full magnitude of the storm damage. According to Reuters, CoreLogic, a real estate data firm, estimated the storm might have caused up to $800 million in damage to …
Post-Hurricane Matthew, Windstorms, Stereotypes and Manufactured Housing Read More
Noteworthy headlines on CNNMoney – FUBU CEO Stop and Frisked “Maybe 20 Times. U.S.: Wells Fargo Mistreated Military Members. WSJ Columnist Calls Trump “Unstable.” Why The Federal Reserve Isn’t Political. From WSJ: Ghost of Lehman Brothers Haunts Deutsche Bank. Some bullets from MarketWatch – ‘Housing party’ in the U.S. may be coming …
An article in Bloomberg makes the case that manufactured homes – what they refered to as mobile homes (sic), are an obvious solution to the affordable housing crisis. It starts with a simple question: “Why Aren’t We Building More Mobile Homes?” While their terminology isn’t exactly accurate – and they admit …
Bloomberg – Manufactured Home Industry is the Solution to the Affordable Housing Crisis Read More
Rob and Andrea Cook of Powell, Wyoming had a plan. The Cook’s bought a 26,000 square foot property. Part of the plan in buying it was to create a 7,300 square foot lot for a pre-HUD Code mobile home, to be placed on a permanent foundation on their property in …
Cooks Avoid normal Zoning Flap over “Mobile Home” placement Read More
JACKSON, OH — James “Jim” Elliott lived life to the fullest — every single day of his 73 years. To say he had a zest for life would be an understatement, said Legacy. Jackson passed away in his home on Saturday, Sept 10, 2016, with his family with him, the …
“It started last fall when we issued a permit to allow a manufactured home on a regular single-family lot,” said Ann Marie Townshend, director of Dover’s Planning and Community Development. “It got some people upset so we fixed the definition of single-family dwellings so that couldn’t happen again,” reported Mike …
Most manufactured home communities are run by owners and professionals who care about their residents, the conditions at their location(s) as well as the look and safety of their property. But when a community operator runs their location like the proverbial “trailer park,” it’s bad for residents and impacts the …
Connected Community Owner “Should be Facing Criminal Charges” for conditions at the “park” Read More
East Baton Rouge Parish’s Metro Council will bypass city-parish law, that will make way for longer-term, temporary housing. The measure was instated to assist those that were affected by the recent, historic floods, allowing them to site the temporary homes in front of their damaged properties. The law normally allows …
Metro Council Bypasses Law, Allowing “Temporary” Manufactured Homes Read More
During their Aug. 18 meeting, the Georgetown, SC city council members denied a request to rezone the West End to permit the addition of manufactured homes on more than 200 vacant lots. A petition signed by 150 residents asked to rezone that area from R5 to R3, to allow manufactured …
NIMBY strikes as council nixes manufactured housing use requested by over 100 residents Read More
Gateway Lifestyle, an Australian-based holder of factory-built retirement home communities, is exploring partnering with U.S.-based Hometown America in a venture that could reshape Australia’s emerging manufactured housing market. The two firms may join forces for the pursuit of National Lifestyle Villages (NLV), Western Australia’s largest operator of ‘mobile home parks.’ …
Will Hometown America and Gateway ally to Increase Manufactured Home Community Holdings? Read More
Affordable housing is defined as housing and utility payments falling under 30 percent of monthly household income. Colorado’s Durango County Planning Commissioners see manufactured homes as being a good fit for that important need, the Pine River Times tells MHProNews. Challenges in their market include the rising costs of conventional …
Commissioner sees Manufactured Homes and Communities as Affordable Housing Solution Read More
The manufactured home community in Robinson Township, Pennsylvania remains in legal limbo between its owners and the final residents remaining on the property, which is moving towards closure. Channel 11 News shared its investigation of Twin Circle Mobile Home Park with MHProNews, where only a handful of residents remain. Residents state that …
Manufactured Home Community Tangled in Legal Issues, Resident AG Complaints Read More
Having achieved statehood in 1816, in celebration of Indiana’s Bicentennial, greenfieldreporter has assembled a group of notable sites around the state worth a visit, such as female author Gene Stratton Porter’s house just outside Rome City that she helped build; and in Shelbyville, one of the last drive-in movie theatres …
RV and Mfg. Home Hall of Fame Museum on Indiana Must Visit List Read More
MHProNews has learned from fidaily that GW&K Investment Management LLC purchased 15,805 shares of common stock of manufactured home community owner, Sun Communities, Inc. (NYSE:SUI) for the quarter ending June 30, 2016, increasing its stake to 2.3 percent. According to the filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), GW&K’s investment is now …
Following a story MHProNews posted June 18, 2016 regarding a manufactured home that was sited in Stuttgart, Arkansas in a neighborhood not zoned for MH, city officials were initially told the home was a modular, which would be allowed. Now that the home has been sited, the mayor and two …
Federal Preemption should Allow the Manufactured Home to be Sited Read More
In the wake of the sale of Lowry Grove manufactured home community (MHC) in the Minneapolis suburbs despite vigorous protests from the residents, and an attempted purchase by a nonprofit, as MHProNews reported June 17, 2016, the Metropolitan Council report says the easiest way to preserve affordable housing is to …
Twin Cities Trying to Preserve MH Communities as Affordable Housing Read More
Following concerns expressed by manufactured home community (MHC) residents in Arcata, California regarding rising site rents, the Arcata City Council directed the Community Development Department to take a demographic survey of MHC residents as well as the history of rents. As times-standard tells MHProNews, Community Development Department specialist Mohamad Alnakhlawi …
Arcata, CA Residents Concerned about Rents in MH Community Read More
While the Arizona Office of Manufactured Housing (MH) enforces the state’s manufactured home landlord-tenant act, it does not apply to rental homes. The city of Tucson does take care of MH rentals, having responded to about 20 calls this year regarding insufficient cooling, requiring owners to fix the problems, according …
Manufactured Home Rentals in Arizona could be Troubling Read More
June 15, 1976 marks the formal start for the first manufactured homes built to the Federal Manufactured Home Construction and Safety Standards passed in 1974. Administered by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the manufactured home standards are thus commonly called the HUD Code. Here on MHProNews and …
