The Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) reports to MHProNews that statistics compiled on behalf of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) indicate that HUD Code manufacturers produced 6,689 homes in April, a 9.9 percent increase over the 6,085 homes produced in April 2015. For 2016, total …
Manufactured Home Production Continues its Upward Trend Read More
MHProNews has been fielding industry responses via email, phone and text to the report and analysis linked below. Why did 4-9-2016 MHI Housing Alert mislead Association and industry members? Based upon early feedback, MHProNews sent the following inquiry to MHI members for their response. The inquiry included the link above, …
Manufactured Housing Institute members react-Allegations of Misleading MHI Housing Alert Read More
What’s New in public focused Manufactured HomeLivingNews.com Walk Down Memory Lane: From Trailers and Mobile Homes to Early and Modern What’s New in Manufactured Housing Industry Professional News Manufactured homes have to be re-installed. Relocated manufactured homes a plus for residents. Hail storm damages newer MH. New York funds new, …
Sunday Morning Recap-Manufactured Housing Industry News May 29-June 5, 2016 Read More
1) Who, What and Where: (Your name and your formal title at Brookside Companies/ HomeFirst™ Certified Communities and where your company is based).
I am Kenny Lipschutz, Chief Executive Officer of Brookside Companies and President of HomeFirst™ Certified Communities.
A longtime builder of surfboards in Australia, Nev Hyman became increasingly concerned about plastic waste he saw in the ocean, which led him to consider building inexpensive housing from recycled materials, as mashable informs MHProNews. Initially, he wanted to build homes using plastics, so he invested in a plastics recycling …
From Surfboard Builder to Sustainable Home Builder Read More
Fans of 1970s TV shows may recall that James Garner played a private eye named Jim Rockford in The Rockford Files, and he lived in a pre-HUD Code home sited on a deserted parking lot in Paradise Cove with a view of the Malibu coastline. The deserted parking lot with …
Steve Sinovic, writing in abqjournal, says sales of manufactured home sales are up, a popular and affordable housing choice for New Mexicans, some eighteen percent of whom live in manufactured housing. However, financing costs are being driven up by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) implementation of the Dodd-Frank law. Additionally, …
Dodd-Frank Act Remains a Stumbling Block to Manufactured Home Lending Read More
Harking back to a post MHProNews published Feb. 23, 2016 regarding Wyoming Homes owner David Valenti pleading guilty to 19 counts of theft for not delivering modular homes for which he had been paid, he has now pleaded guilty to 21 counts of theft, alleging he stole over $240,000 from …
Modular Home Dealer Ordered to Jail on 21 Theft Charges Read More
In an attempt to encourage communities to be more diverse, the Obama administration is tying federal community grants to the demographic make-up of communities, according to what washingtonexaminer is telling MHProNews. An amendment from Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) would have defunded President Obama’s “The Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Rule,” but …
Attempt to Block Funding of Federal Housing Program Fails Read More
According to Neal Gabler, writing an article entitled The Secret Shame of Middle-class Americans in the May issue of The Atlantic, a Federal Reserve study from a year ago reports that nearly half of Americans would be hard-pressed to come up with $400 in an emergency—and he includes himself in …
As More People Live on the Edge, Payday Lenders Provide Valuable Service Read More
Following a story MHProNews last posted May 5, 2016 regarding the wildfires that have engulfed Fort McMurray in Alberta, Canada, forcing the evacuation of 90,000 residents and destroying ten percent of the city, Mayor Melissa Blake said the first priority is to get temporary housing so the shuttered oil companies …
Officials in Alberta’s Fire-whipped Fort McMurray Considering Modular Homes Read More
with – Kevin Clayton, Joe Stegmayer, Keith Anderson, Gary McDaniel, Todd Baker and Don Westphal “We have to learn how to reach out and communicate with them (Millenials).” — Keith Anderson – Champion Home Builders Model home, Champion Home Builders. Moderated by energetic 45-year industry veteran Dick Ernst, the “Where …
Manufactured Housing – “Where Do We Go from Here?” – Industry Discussion Read More
With a focus on people who cannot qualify for a mortgage, especially low-income families who have been denied bank lending, a revival in seller-financed home sales has attracted the attention of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) because of concern some of the dealings may violate federal truth-in-lending laws. One …
The U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) reports to MHProNews for the first time ever it has allocated $174 million through the new Housing Trust Fund, an affordable housing production program to complement existing governmental efforts—local, state and national—intended to increase and preserve affordable housing for extremely …
New Housing Trust Fund has $174M to Acquire Affordable Housing Read More
MHProNews has learned from thegatewaypundit that anti-Trump groups spent $75.7 million on 64,000 television ads against Donald Trump’s bid for the presidency, according to ad tracking firm Kantar Media/CMAG. This figure does not include ads that appeared on cable and satellite channels as those are not part of the tracking …
Trump’s Opponents Spent over $75 Million Trying to Defeat Him Read More
The Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) tells MHPronews a three year project undertaken by the Department of Energy (DOE) compared the energy-saving attributes of three lab houses of varying designs tested side-by-side under controlled conditions in Russellville, Ala. The homes were built by Southern Energy Homes, part of the Clayton Homes …
Results of Comparable Energy Efficiency in Manufactured Homes Revealed Read More
Who, What and Where: (Your name and your formal title at Zeman Homes and where your company is based).
Edward Zeman, Chairman, Zeman Homes, Chicago, IL.
What’s New in public focused Manufactured HomeLivingNews.com Tornadoes, Hurricanes, Conventional Housing and Manufactured Homes Video Report What’s New in Manufactured Housing Industry Professional News MHC closing in Minneapolis. CFPB constitutionality challenged. MHARR, MHI spar over DTS and chattel lending. Clayton acquires another site-built home builder. Champion expanding into Kentucky. Drew …
Sunday Morning Recap-Manufactured Housing Industry News April 24-May 1, 2016 Read More
On April 26, 2016 the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) held a roundtable discussion with manufactured housing industry leaders, inviting those who commented on the proposal, to get their input on the FHFA’s proposed “Duty to Serve” rule, according to the Manufactured Housing Institute‘s (MHI) Housing Alert to MHProNews. Lesli …
MHARR, MHI Spar over FHFA & Duty To Serve Manufactured Housing via GSE Chattel Lending Read More
If you find yourself in the path of a major storm during the peak turbulent weather season, you might be better off in a manufactured home (MH) than in your bathtub or basement or stick-built home. While conventional wisdom has long held that “mobile homes” are dangerous during such storms, …
Video Proves Manufactured Homes Tougher than Comparable Site-built Homes Read More
