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Sunday Morning Recap-Manufactured Housing Industry News Aug. 16-Aug. 23, 2015

What’s New in public focused Manufactured HomeLivingNews.com Stan Dye talks Manufactured Home Lending and MH Site Preparation Do-It-Yourself Heat Tape Video! Prevent Winter Freeze Ups for Manufactured Homes and Houses over Crawl Spaces What’s New in Manufactured Housing Industry Professional News PBS Story on MH Finance Due. Sun, UMH, Adding …

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Commercial Modular Housing Taking Root Down Under

China-backed CIMC Modular Building Systems has signed a contract with Pindan, a property and construction company based in Western Australia (WA), for the redevelopment of Agricola College in Kalgoorlie, which houses students for the Western Australia School of Mines. As businessnews.au informs MHProNews, the 180-room project, comprised of 89 modules, …

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Irish Modular Homes Planned for Affordable Housing in Nigeria

Only two weeks after Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River State in southeastern Nigeria led a trade delegation to the Republic of Ireland, he has announced plans that would lead to the building of 5,000 affordable modular homes across the state, as reported by nationalaccordnewspaper. Representatives of Affordable Building Concept …

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Modular Container Units will House Homeless in Honolulu

Following a story MHProNews published June 2, 2015, regarding modular shelters made of shipping containers for homeless people in Honolulu, the city has awarded a contract to Container Storage of Hawaii, Ltd. for the eventual 63 housing units. The $523,517 contract will provide housing for up to 83 people by …

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Gated Community of Ten Modular Homes to Rise in Florida Keys

A new development of ten modular homes is being planned in Key West, Florida, according to keysnews. The Enclave on the Riviera will feature single-family stilt homes starting at $799,000, said realtor Bascom Grooms of the 1,800 square foot homes, each with three bedrooms and two-and-a-half baths. The gated community …

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Container Homes in South Africa face Lending Challenge similar to U. S. Manufactured Homes

Although the government of South Africa has built more than 2.6 million homes since 1994, it is estimated there remains a shortage of 2.3 million family homes. A definite gap remains between those who do not qualify for a government-subsidized house and an entry level home, according to estatetimesnigeria. Working …

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Sunday Morning Recap-Manufactured Housing Industry News Aug. 9-Aug. 16, 2015

What’s New in public focused Manufactured HomeLivingNews.com Nubble Lighthouse and Sohier Park. York, Maine – US Destination What’s New in Manufactured Housing Industry Professional News GSEs set to offer secondary market for manufactured home loans. Two MHCs change hands, new MHC planned in Canada. CFPB not protecting consumers OR employees. …

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Shigeru Ban develops Modular Shelter for Quake Survivors in Nepal

Following the April and May 2015 earthquakes that caused 9,000 deaths and injured 25,000 in Nepal, the worst earthquake to hit the country in more than 80 years, prize-winning Japanese architect Shigeru Ban has developed a modular shelter home for the survivors made in part from the rubble resulting from …

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Modular Homes will Result from Land Bank Transfer

Updating a story MHProNews published July 10, 2015 about non-profit Interfaith Housing Services in Hutchinson, Kansas set to receive property from the Hutchinson Land Bank for two modular homes, land bank chairman Mark Eaton said, “We are very excited to transfer our first property. And we have three other properties …

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Land Bank Authority Funds Modular Housing Project

In the second project of Dauphin County’s Land Bank Authority, four dilapidated townhouses will be demolished and replaced with five modular homes in Susquehanna Township, a suburb of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, according to what pennlive tells MHProNews. Three health officers have been working on the four buildings over the years, citing …

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Fleetwood Poised to take Advantage of Opportunities Down Under

Fleetwood Corporation Ltd. (ASX:FWD) of Australia produces manufactured and modular homes and buildings for residential, educational and commercial applications, and has a recreational vehicle division as well, according to dailyreckoning.au. Although the report at the end of 2014 showed revenue had fallen 18 percent due to a weakness in the …

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European Modular Housing Builder Overwhelmed by Demand

As sltrib informs MHProNews, the influx of some 200,000 migrants into Europe this year has benefited the modular housing division of Paris-based Touax Group in Supikovice, Czech Republic, which is trying to keep up with the demand from Germany to house those fleeing war and poverty in their native lands. …

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Shelters Developed for Military may be Used for Disasters Scenarios

Students at the University of Notre Dame’s Kinetic Structure Laboratory have developed an origami-inspired deployable shelter for the military that will cut energy usage used to heat and cool canvas tents by 70 percent, according to gizmag. Instead of erecting four shelter walls as in traditional construction, the walls are …

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Modular Home Construction can Realize Cost Savings

According to cbsnews, there are many advantages of a modular home, especially versus a stick-built. Energy bills are lower because of the tight-fitting seams and state-of-the-art windows, which also earned them a reputation for being able to better withstand natural disasters. Because the home is made inside and delivered in …

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Sunday Morning Recap-Manufactured Housing Industry News Aug. 2-Aug. 9, 2015

What’s New in public focused Manufactured HomeLivingNews.com Paul Simon, Singing Homeward Bound, Doing Good Work and MH The Hybrid Core – A Different Style Factory Home-Building Process What’s New in Manufactured Housing Industry Professional News HUD Code Production Continues Rising. RV/MH Hall of Fame Inducts Class of 2015. Positive End …

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Monitors Measure Energy Use in Energy Efficient Modular Home

A company focused on energy efficiency, Ibacos, allied with developer Elliot Fabri Jr.’s EcoCraft Homes, a modular home buildern to erect an infill home on Pittsburgh’s north side. Thirty built-in monitors measure the levels of heat, humidity and CO2 levels, according to triblive. The home uses small, high efficiency heating …

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Cavco Industries Reports Financials for First Fiscal Quarter of 2016

In its report of first quarter 2016 financial results, Cavco Industries, Inc. (NASDAQ:CVCO) says net income per share, based on basic and diluted weighted average shares outstanding, was $0.61 and $0.60 respectively, as compared to $0.65 and $0.64 for the same quarter 2014. According to cnnmoney, net revenue for Q1 …

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Modular Slowly Making Inroads in Australia’s Residential Projects

As the modular industry innovates to meet housing affordability head-on, widespread acceptance of the product is being hampered by the way banks lend on residential development, according to businessnews.au in Australia. Modular techniques offer up to 40 percent time savings on construction, lower energy bills for buyers of modular homes …

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Manufactured Home Builder Oakwood Sells former HQ

MHProNews has learned from bizjournals the former Oakwood Homes corporate headquarters in Greensboro, North Carolina has been sold to Stanley Benefits Services for $8.1 million, which will occupy 30,000 square feet of the 130,000 square-foot building. Oakwood, a builder of manufactured and modular homes with locations around North Carolina, vacated …

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Nigeria Using Modular Methods to Construct Inexpensive Housing

MHProNews has learned from thisdaylive that Alpha Mead Development Company (AMDC) has announced its plans to lower the entry level for middle income home buyers in Nigeria, using a modular building system. AMDC is one of the Strategic Business Units of Facilities Management Company, Alpha Mead Facilities & Management Services …

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