TotalMortgage informs MHProNews if you live in a rural area and meet the income qualifications you may be eligible for a USDA Home Loan, with no down payment, 100% financing including closing costs, government guaranteed and competitive rates. Part of the US Dept. of Agriculture’s Rural Development Single Family Housing …
The timesunion reports 40 housing modules are on their way from the Port of Albany, in New York, to St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada for housing offshore drilling workers. Manufactured by a Champion Homes plant in Sangerfield, NY, the modular homes are destined for Exxon/Mobil’s Hebron Project that seeks to recover …
TradingCharts reports Cavco Industries, Inc. will release its earnings report for Q3 of fiscal year 2013 Thurs. Jan. 31 after the market closes. Senior officials will discuss the results in a live webcast Fri. Feb. 1 at 11:00 AM eastern time. Listen via Internet: http://www.cavco.com under the Investor Relations link. …
According to crainsnewyork, CEO and Chairman of Forest City Ratner Bruce Ratner is relinquishing his role as CEO, and Mary Anne Gilmartin, who became executive vice-president in 2007, will replace him. Although it is not clear why or when, one source said Ratner would clearly continue to be involved with …
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WoodworkingNetwork reports Okaply Industries, a producer of plywood, vinyl laminated panels, MDF, particleboard and mouldings for the manufactured housing and commercial modular industries, is opening a fully-equipped moulding dept. at its facility in Calgary, Alberta Canada. Based in Opa, Quebec, just north of Montreal, Okaply opened the plant in Calgary …
The ridgefieldpatch tells MHProNews from the southwest corner of Conn. the people of Ridgefield have seen a number of affordable housing units in their town recently. Currently before the Planning and Zoning Commission is a proposal for an eleven unit modular housing development. By law affordable housing developers must designate …
The housing shortage in Minot, North Dakota following the Souris River flooding in 2011 and the oil boom in western ND has resulted in students and faculty at Minot State University scrambling for places to live. The university has responded by installing ten modular housing units called ‘Beaver Lodge.” Set …
The HudsonReporter informs MHProNews, following a lengthy process of having chromium- contaminated land cleaned up in Jersey City, New Jersey, a consortium of non-profits and for profits witnessed the arrival of 22 modular townhomes that will be known as Jackson Green on Rose Avenue, in the Martin Luther King Drive …
The billingsgazette reports Canadian-American Structured Solutions, Inc. (CASS), which opened its doors in May, 2012 in Billings, Mont. to build modular homes to help meet the housing shortage in ten western states and three Canadian provinces has announced it will layoff about 30 employees as a temporary measure. CASS’ president …
DailyFinance tells MHProNews T. J. T., Inc., based in Eagle, Idaho reports a net loss of $1,149,000, $.25 a diluted share, for fiscal year 2012 for this supplier of axles, tires and set-up supplies for the MH industry. Lower sales volume combined with an increase in SG&A (selling, general and …
MHProNews has learned that the first day of the Louisville Show revealed a rise in attendance. 1,233 attendees of all types arrived on January 23, which already exceeded the total attendance 2012’s 2 1/2 day total. Exhibitors and attendees alike reported an upbeat mood, and a willingness to invest in …
The Globe and Mail from Toronto informs MHProNews Jason Halter and Michael de Jong have created a two-story modular house from 70% recycled materials. Using shipping container steel frames clad in cedar, the homes start around $115 a square foot. While this energy efficient house can be had with Italian …
The Observer reports NYC’s Bloomberg Administration’s My Micro NY competition to create a miniature housing model for the city was won by Monandock Development in collaboration with the Actors Fund for Housing Development and modular home builder Capsys, which is based in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Although it is illegal …
The Star-Telegram reports from Fort Worth, Texas Stramit USA utilizes wheat straw to make modular man camps for the burgeoning oil boom towns. By treating and compressing the wheat fiber, boards are made for construction and insulation. Tim Evans of Stramit compares it to fiberglass and foam. “Wheat straw and …
SFGate reports modular builder Greenfab of Seattle will have two fully-constructed modular homes on display at the National Association of Home Builders’ (NAHB) International Builder’s Show (IBS) in Las Vegas Jan. 22-24. The builder of the first modular LEED Platinum home in the state of Washington last year, Greenfab is …
Although they did not win the competition sponsored by Alltech of Nicholasville, Kent., to create jobs in eastern Kent., students from the University of Louisville proposed mixed-income, single-family modular homes selling for $110,000 each that would create 122 jobs. Utilizing design work created by a partnership with the University of …
The RentonReporter tells MHProNews the Renton Housing Authority recently received $2.1 million towards the construction of 18 modular town homes in this city just south of Seattle, Wash. The new Kirkland Townhomes are part of a larger project, the 100-unit Sunset Terrace redevelopment, and include affordable housing, part of a …
MarketWatch reports that Calgary, Alberta Canada-based Black Diamond Group Limited has completed the acquisition of 90 percent of the modular rental business and 20 percent of the modular building manufacturing business of Australian Portable Buildings Pty. Ltd. MHProNews has learned Black Diamond is a remote lodging, modular building, and energy …
In a Meet the Media Morning at the Louisville Manufactured Home Show Thurs. Jan. 24, from 9-11 AM, the press has been invited to see the quality of factory-built homes for themselves to dispel the misconceptions about the industry and the product. Top-named officials in the industry, companies associations and …
The inyoregister reports the board of supervisors of Inyo County in eastern Calif. will consider repairing two modular homes the Inyo County Sheriff’s Dept. purchased to house resident deputies in the town of Shoshone, near the Nevada border. The Inyo County Public Works Dept. proposes to use the county building …
