At a League of Women Voters (LWV) forum on affordable housing in Midland, Texas, it was noted the housing shortage is evidenced in the availability of only 150 homes for sale in this west-central city of over 100,000. A one bedroom apartment now costs $900/month, and the increase each time …
StLToday says the Joplin Globe reports some homeowners in tornado-ravaged Joplin, Missouri are up in arms because modular homes are being sited next to more expensive houses. In one case a Habitat for Humanity low-income home was built across from a $280,000 house, and a modular home of lesser value …
Calgary-based Black Diamond Group Limited announced recently the company will webcast its 2012 Annual Meeting of Shareholders. The meeting will be held at 3:00 p.m. MDT on Wednesday, May 2, 2012 in the Devonian Room at the Calgary Petroleum Club at 319-5 Avenue S.W., Calgary, AB T2P 0L6. Those shareholders …
From FoxNews Boston, MHProNews.com learns that Massachusetts is cracking down on modular home builders and inspectors. That’s in light of previous stories on the network that the network says exposed flaws in state oversight of the industry. FOX told the story of Ron and Phyllis Chasse who bought a modular …
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In a short video, Baristanet informs MHProNews, Fredco Modular Homes of Passaic, New Jersey details the erection of an Excel four bedroom, two bath, two-story modular home in one day. Since 1979 the Fredco Group has been involved in site development, golf course/sports field construction, and landscaping/hardscaping, including the construction …
A legal debate is brewing in a Mississippi court regarding the distinction between a modular home and a manufactured home as it pertains to a restrictive covenant in a subdivision. In a case going back to 2006, developers Hudson Holliday and Darrin Harris filed a complaint to have home owners …
The AtikokanProgress reports to MHProNews.com from just north of Duluth, Minnesota, in Canada, the Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) dismissed a homeowner’s appeal of a bylaw that would have restricted placement of modular homes. The town had approved the amendment requested by owners of a former MHC who want to build …
The National Association of Home Builders tells MHProNews.com the Board of Trustees for its Building Systems Councils (BSC) has chosen Kevin Flaherty as its vice chairman. A 28-year veteran of the building systems industry, Flaherty is vice president of marketing for Genesis Homes and Champion Home Builders in Troy, Michigan. …
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As a follow-up to a story we published Feb. 28, 2011, TheNowNewspaper in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada tells MHProNews.com modular units used for housing athletes at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Whistler, just north of Vancouver, have been converted into 52 rental apartments for seniors and people with disabilities. Timber …
NorthBayBusinessJournal informs MHProNews.com new California modular kid-on-the-block Healthy Buildings Technology Group finished the first of two showcase Ohome homes in Napa, CA. The roof and wall panels of a 640 square-foot dwelling were hauled to a site in North Napa and assembled in two days. A second Ohome nearly twice …
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MHProNews.com has learned from IntelligencerCanada Royal Homes Ltd. of Wingham, Ontario won the contract to supply the Canadian Forces Housing Agency (CFHA) at CFB Trenton with a two-story modular home. The 1,437 square foot dwelling will have three bedrooms, 1 1/2 baths, an attached garage, and a fire suppression system …
CTVBC in Canada reports Ikea is producing a flat-packed do-it-yourself modular home for sale in the U.S. furnished with their signature cabinetry, flooring and wardrobes as well as Energy Star appliances. Priced at $86,500, the 745 square-foot space-saving home, the Aktiv, has an open living/dining/kitchen area, a single bedroom and …
While noting modular villas being built in in one day in southern Iraq by Rotondo Weirich of Pennsylvania, as we published here March 6, 2012, FraserCoastChronicle of Australia reports Hutchinson Builders is constructing a modular three-story accommodation (residential) building for Central Queensland University (CQU) in northeast Australia for their Mackay …
Modular says the Modular Building Institute’s (MBI) World of Modular convention and trade show in Orlando, Florida at Disney World March 24-27 will bring together hundreds of professionals from the commercial modular building industry. Billed as the largest event in the modular world, the gathering will include over 50 exhibitors, …
Following up on our story we published March 9, 2012, the Carrollton, Ohio City Council heard Dan Coen of Utica Housing Group from Canton describe his plans for two modular housing developments comprising 31 homes. The homes will be leased by energy companies to house their oil and gas employees …
From Washington, D.C. the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) tells MHProNews.com the Stabenow amendment to the Senate’s surface transportation reauthorization legislation (S.1813), which would have extended the energy efficient tax credits for MH and Mod, did not get the required 60 votes needed for passage. Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) led the …
Following up on a story we published Dec. 22, 2011, the WinnipegFreePress tells MHProNews.com nearly a year after floods forced several thousand First Nation Manitoba, Canada, residents from their homes, 2,255 people continue to live in hotels in Winnipeg or with family and friends. The government pays the evacuees for …
MHProNews.com has learned from NOLA in New Orleans the Louisiana Supreme Court has upheld the 60-year sentence of a former Alabama lawmaker who swindled older victims of Hurricane Katrina out of $250,000. John Colvin, who passed himself off as a licensed contractor but was not licensed in LA, pleaded guilty …
The Enumclaw Patch reports due to local volunteer firemens’ inability to respond to fires more quickly from their own homes, the King County Fire District bought a modular home for sleeping quarters to better staff the Cumberland Fire Station. Many of the former volunteers have retired or moved from this …
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CantonRep tells MHProNews.com the Village Council of Carrollton, Ohio, will hold a special meeting Monday at 6 PM to discuss housing for gas and oil well workers coming to the area. An outside company is interested in real estate in the area, and may want to build a modular village …
