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Ghorbani Responds to Erroneous News Article about Manufactured Housing

By / May 13, 2014 / Advocacy, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, mobile home

Responding to an article in the Clarion-Ledger newspaper in Jackson, Mississippi in which Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney says, “manufactured homes…are not built to any code,” Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform’s (MHARR) Danny Ghorbani strongly disputes that claim. He says, “Manufactured homes that are designed and built to be …

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Manufactured Home Community Owners Leave Trail of Neglect

By / March 26, 2014 / Business, Communities, Company News, Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, mobile home

About six weeks ago, residents of the 20 households of the Seaview Trailer Court (STC) on the Washington coast learned why garbage sometimes piles up uncollected in their community: STC is being foreclosed on and will be auctioned off Friday, March 28 at the courthouse in South Bend, Washington. If …

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Rent Control Initiatives Challenged by Land Lease Community Owners

By / February 5, 2014 / Business, Communities, Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, mobile home, regulation

Following a story MHProNews.com first posted Aug. 23, 2013, both the Lake County (Calif.) Board of Supervisors and the Lakeport City Council have rent control initiatives regarding manufactured housing communities on separate ballots sponsored by a “Save our Seniors” group. While the county ballot is set for June, and the …

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Speakers Address Rights of Manufactured Home Community Residents

By / December 8, 2013 / Communities, Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, mobile home, People

Over 150 residents representing 30 manufactured home communities (MHCs) attended an informational seminar in Pismo Beach, California hosted by Golden State Manufactured Home-owners League (GSMOL), San Luis Obispo Mobilehome Residents Assistance Panel and North Santa Barbara County Manufactured-Homeowners Team. David Loop discussed the steps involved in attaining community ownership status, …

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Community Owners must Correct Violations

By / December 4, 2013 / Business, Communities, Company News, Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, mobile home, Zoning

Two manufactured housing communities (MHCs) in Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin in the southeast corner of the state may lose their licenses to operate Dec. 31, 2013 unless they correct zoning and building violations. Westwood Estates Manufactured Housing Community must remove a pile of dirt and repair a stockade fence as conditions …

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Moving pre-HUD Code Homes Challenging

By / August 5, 2013 / Communities, Factory-Built Homes, Legal, mobile home

While it is true that some older, pre-HUD Code homes may not be worth moving (except to the resident who cannot afford a better one), Robert Cochran, manager of Contempo Mobile Home Park in Spokane, Washington, disputes the notion that some homes are too old to be moved. While they …

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Amendment would Change Definition of Affordable Housing

By / July 18, 2013 / Advocacy, Factory-Built Homes, Legal, Legislation, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, mobile home, regulation

Massachusetts’ controversial Chapter 40B provision allows developers to build housing complexes that do not conform to local zoning ordinances if the town does not have ten percent affordable housing in its stock. Belcherton, in west central Mass., has only 6.4 percent affordable housing, and its Board of Selectmen are considering …

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California Manufactured Housing Code to be Presented

By / 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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Rezoning Request for Former Manufactured Housing Community Denied

By / June 26, 2013 / Business, Communities, Company News, Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, mobile home, Zoning

Following a story MHProNews posted yesterday, June 25, concerning the former Hilltop manufactured housing community in State College, Penn. that a builder wants to develop into student housing, the College Township Council rejected the request. Despite a modified proposal from the developer, Ind.-based Trinitas Ventures, which offered a plan that …

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Midland School District may Vote on Manufactured Homes Tonight

By / June 25, 2013 / Communities, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, mobile home

The Midland Independent School District (MISD) in Midland, Tex. is a step closer to deciding where to site the manufactured homes it will be acquiring to house staff. At a special meeting tonight, June 25, board members may decide whether to site the homes on the grounds of an unused …

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School District may Lease Homesites in Manufactured Housing Community

By / June 19, 2013 / Communities, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, mobile home

Updating a story MHProNews posted June 12, 2013 regarding manufactured homes for teachers in housing-strapped Midland, Tex., the Midland Independent School District (MISD) trustees authorized up to $3.5 million to create a 70-unit temporary housing development. While the trustees originally thought they would have to develop infrastructure for the new …

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Manufactured and Mobile Homes Survive Recent Oklahoma Tornadoes

By / June 6, 2013 / Communities, Factory-Built Homes, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, mobile home, People

Contrary to the common focus of too many weather reports, MHProNews has leaned that no one in a pre-HUD Code mobile home or a modern manufactured home died as the result of the May 20 and May 31st EF5 storms in Oklahoma. While thousands of conventional homes were leveled or …

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Guidelines for Buying Factory-built Homes

By / May 30, 2013 / Business, Factory-Built Homes, home buyers, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, mobile home, Modular

The Napa Valley Register in Calif. offers definitions of mobile, manufactured and modular homes and the appropriate financing. Mortgage banker Chris Salese notes that fateful day of June 15, 1976 when manufactured homes came under the jurisdiction of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the regulated production …

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Vermont Community Owner Facing Default

By / May 14, 2013 / Communities, Company News, Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, mobile home

According to what the benningtonbanner tells MHProNews, a complaint filed April 30 against John M. Bushee, Jr., owner of Sunset Farm Mobile Home Park of Bennington, Ver. may lead to foreclosure of the community. Sunset Farm has issues with providing clean water to its residents going back to Dec. 2007, …

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Co-op Assumes Responsibility for Managing Community

By / May 7, 2013 / Business, Communities, Company News, Finance, Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, mobile home, People, Small Business

Following up on an article we published April 4, 2013 about residents of Wheel Estates Mobile Home Park in North Adams, Mass. becoming a resident-owned community (ROC), iberkshires reports the residents made their first official decision as owners St. May 4, voting to maintain the rules and policies set by …

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Free Energy Savings for Ark. Manufactured Housing Residents

By / April 30, 2013 / Communities, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, mobile home

A program in Arkansas through Entergy, which supplies energy to over 687,000 people in 62 counties, is offering a free program to help reduce energy costs in manufactured homes. David Lewis of Entergy says they will install aerators on faucets that reduces the flow of water, shower heads that use …

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Senior Community Overlooks the Pacific

By / April 24, 2013 / Advocacy, Communities, Economy, Factory-Built Homes, Green, home buyers, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, mobile home, Trends

Noting that baby boomers are poorer than their parents, with half of those facing retirement having less than $10,000 in the bank and one of six of them living in poverty, psmag informs MHProNews the residents of the 333 factory-built homes at Pismo Dunes Senior Park in central Calif. have …

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Modular Homes may be Regulated Again

By / April 23, 2013 / Factory-Built Homes, Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, mobile home, regulation

According to tampabay, the Hernando County Commissioners meeting in Brooksville, Fla. are considering reinstating an ordinance similar to one originally passed in 2000 that required homes in single-family residential neighborhoods to look the same. The ordinance was eliminated in 2010 because it was an unnecessary regulation that necessitated too much …

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Battle Awakes over Placement of FEMA Park Model Trailers

By / April 17, 2013 / Communities, Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, mobile home, regulation

The newsherald informs MHProNews from Panama City, Fla., a battle going on since June 2012 is pitting city commissioners against the owner of Mill-Village MHC, Katy Adair, for having two Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) park model trailers in the community in violation of a city ordinance. Code enforcement says …

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1960’s Definition of Manufactured Housing Clouds Industry

By / April 14, 2013 / Advocacy, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, mobile home

If you Google “definition manufactured home,” what pops up may surprise you. “Mobile home: a large house trailer that can be connected to utilities and can be parked in one place and used as permanent housing.” Credit for the entry is Princeton University’s WordNet. MHProNews publisher L. A. “Tony” Kovach …

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