SavannahNow reports the first of six modular homes that comprise the Wharf Street affordable housing project in Bluffton, South Carolina, just west of Hilton Head, is set to arrive this week. General contractor Beaufort Construction, Inc., has been building the foundations while the houses are being manufactured by Crestline Custom …
UticaObserverDispatch in New York reports the site of the former Lincoln School in West Utica will be home to seven modular homes for first time buyers with low-to-moderate incomes. The Monday groundbreaking for the $1.5 million project by Rebuild Mohawk Valley will result in a more stable neighborhood, increased property …
CapeCodTimes reports Jacques Lapointe, owner and developer of Pleasant Bay Homes of East Harwich, Massachusetts, has placed nearly 200 modular homes on the Cape since 1999. The most recent is a 4,600 square foot five-bedroom home overlooking the Atlantic Ocean in Orleans, MA for Dee Overton. “This was a paper …
LIBN reports from Smithtown on Long Island in New York that Veritas Villages of America plans to build 560 affordable modular homes, apartments and townhouses for U.S. military veterans and their families. Veritas intends to win grants from the federal government to provide veterans housing and qualify for the HUD-VASH …
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BoonvilleDailyNews reports from Boonville, Missouri, that modular home builder Fuqua Building Systems closed its plant here and its office in Bend, Oregon, earlier this month after over 40 years in business. At one time employing 175 in Boonville, Fuqua had ceased operations in May after a series of layoffs since …
BlueRidgeNow reports from Etowah, Tennessee, Ceil Salvadori is developing 27 acres into five lots for horse lovers who will have a barn, pasture land, and a modular house, or “ranchette”, for a residence. Four of the five lots have frontage on the French Broad River in southeastern TN. The houses …
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Inhabitat reports a Mexican architecture firm has developed a small modular home designed to serve poor families in Monterrey, Mexico. Stacion-ARchitectura Arquitectos’ Modulo 10 X 10 is wrapped in recycled fiberglass panels which can be added to expand the unit depending upon family size. Because of the intense heat in …
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CNNMoney reports over 6,000 people have come to Williston, ND to take advantage of the oil boomtown money to be made, but available housing has not kept up with demand. Some are living in their vehicles in parking lots, some in tents, some sleep in sleeping bags beside the road. …
MercerIslandPatch notes the innovative modular house the U.S. Plywood Association assembled for the 1962 Seattle World’s Fair, the “American Home of the Immediate Future”, is currently occupied by its third owner on Mercer Island, a suburb of Seattle. Some of the original bright paint is intact. Unlike the many futuristic …
Build.co.uk reports from England that Powerwall will ship 44 new modular units from its facility in Scotland to add a full story to an existing apartment building of 112 apartments that houses students and medical workers in London. Powerwall has a patented Volumetric modular system for constructing the units, and …
SavannahNow reports an improperly subdivided lot cannot be sited with a modular home, according to Chatham County Superior Court Judge Michael Karpf. John Barr, Jr.’s, petition to site modular homes in Tybee Islands Eagles Nest neighborhood was denied because his son, the original property owner, violated a 2001 zoning ordinance. …
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WSLS in Virginia reports Nationwide Homes in Martinsville is backlogged with orders for modular homes through January. Dan Goodin, sales vice president for Nationwide, says he intends to hire 20-30 people starting next month to keep up with a 30 percent increase in demand. Martinsville has the highest unemployment rate …
hqyellowknife reports from the Northwest Territories, Canada, Homes North is partnering with FSC Architects and Engineers to build 100 modular homes in the Kam Lake subdivision. The city administration is beginning to negotiate with Homes North on the project to be built near the North Slave Correctional Centre. In response …
pressofAtlanticCity reports the opening of a new modular home builder and sales office in Ship Bottom, New Jersey, has been delayed while the state Department of Transportation (DOT) approves changes to the site that once housed a gas station. Developer Nicholas Garofolo has plans for the once-acre site to include …
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The NorthIslandGazette reports from Port McNeill in British Columbia, Canada, that six new modular units of subsidized housing for seniors will arrive in Port McNeill providing a mis- communication between Mayor Gerry Furney and BC (British Columbia) Housing can be resolved. A recent letter from BC Housing says it will …
The Birmingham News reports Section 30 of Alabama’s new immigration law requires residents of land lease communities prove they are legally in the U.S. in order to obtain a property tax decal for the factory-built home they own. Their other options are to move out of state, sell their home, …
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wvlegal reports an improperly recorded financing statement issued by the Gilmer County Clerk’s Office led to a bank being co-defendant in a lawsuit brought against two modular home builders in March 2010. Modular builder New Horizon Home Sales of Athens, WVa, and Gilmer Housing Partners (GHP) allegedly defaulted on a …
builder reports a consumer friendly user interface to customize your own modular home is now available on line. Borrowing from automotive and aeronautical design and engineering departments, as well as gaming developers, modular builder Blu Homes of Waltham, MA has developed the Configurator, allowing customers to visualize the interior and …
dailytelegraph tells us from Sydney, Australia, the U.S. is not the only country where the gap between income and real estate prices is widening. Sydney’s home prices are expected to rise 19 percent in the next three years, to a median of $770,000. “The big problem with affordability is housing …
nola reports a 61-year old Louisiana woman has been sentenced to 35 years in prison for defrauding modular home buyers out of some $200,000 in a post-Katrina scam. Cecilia Slattery filed articles of incorporation in 2008 for JCV, dba New Era Homes, and befriended ten people by buying them dinners …
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