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Is the CFPB Protecting us from Buying Homes?
Writing in MHHomeLivingNews, award-winning writer Jan Hollingsworth recounts the story of the older gentleman, likely a farmer, in bib overalls who visited a manufactured home dealership in Kentucky. After two hours of perusing the possibilities of different homes, he chose one. But when he asked the salesman for help in …
UMH Properties Pushing to Develop Manufactured/Modular Home Community in New York
Following a story that MHProNews last reported June 20, 2015 regarding UMH Properties, Inc.’s long-time plan to build either a manufactured or modular home community on 106 acres it owns in the Village of Coxsackie, New York, while UMH (NYSE:UMH) wants to move forward with the project, the village is …
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Judge Rules Manufactured Home Community’s Right to Replace Homes
Updating a story MHProNews published Jan. 16, 2015 regarding the city of Pearl, Mississippi’s attempt to prevent a manufactured home community (MHC) from refilling vacated sites with manufactured homes (MH), Madison-Rankin Circuit Judge John H. Emfinger ruled the city does not have that authority, saying the ordinance would destroy the …
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Fed’s St. Louis Veep Questions Fed Policies
Stephen D. Williamson, vice president of the St. Louis Federal Reserve, says the Fed’s quantitative easing policy of purchasing monthly debts to stimulate the economy following the Great Recession was not all that beneficial to economic improvement. He says the zero interest rates since 2008 have not promoted good inflation …
Manufactured Home Community Owners, Residents at Odds over Infrastructure Repairs
With only five months before a 20 year-old agreement stabilizing manufactured home community (MHC) rents expires in Vista, California, talks between residents and community owners have reached a stalemate. During talks that began in April, owners insisted residents pay for updating infrastructure in the aging communities, according to sandiegouniontribune. Most …
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Former Head of Manufactured Housing at HUD Urges Passage of S. 682
William Matchneer, who once served as head of the Manufactured Housing Program at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and from 2011 to 2014 with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), recounts how implementation of the Dodd-Frank Act directives for High-Cost Mortgages under the Home Ownership and Equity …
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Aging Population with Insufficient Retirement Funds Leads to Manufactured Home Community
According to what progress tells MHProNews, there are several macro trends in the U. S. that could drive demand for manufactured home community (MHC) living. The aging population, according to the Census Bureau, consisting of 76 million baby boomers, nearly a quarter of the population, many of whom do not …
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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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MHARR July 28, 2015 Washington Update — An Exclusive Report And Analysis
REPORT AND ANALYSIS JULY 28, 2015 IN THIS REPORT: …
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Manufactured Home Community Closing, Set to be Sold
News from KWQC TV6 in Davenport, Iowa informs MHProNews that residents of Lake Canyada manufactured home community (MHC) near Davenport were scheduled to vacate the community by 11:59 PM July 1, and while many had already left, Phillip Hicks, a resident of 28 years, and his wife, Linda, were still …
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City to Demolish Abandoned Manufactured Homes
An order by the Prince George City Council of British Columbia, Canada for the Lombardy Mobile Home Park to clean up unsightly property has only been partially adhered to, so city crews will go in and make sure the remainder of the order is fulfilled. A report indicates abut half …
Temporary Modular Housing being Restricted in Bakken Oilfield
The Williams County Commission in Williston, North Dakota voted to adopt new guidelines putting restrictions on new or renewed applications for temporary housing as of August 1, 2015, as willistonherald reports. As the price of oil has fallen and the demand for oilfield workers has subsided, the commission is phasing …
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Modular Workforce Housing Planned for Southwest Louisiana
A variance request by Ridge Park LLC to allow for the placement of 28 modified shipping containers for worker housing was passed by the Calcasieu Parish Planning and Zoning Board in Louisiana. The property had been re-re-zoned in 2013 from Agricultural and Mixed Residential to R-MHP — Manufactured Home Park, …
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MHARR Effort To Increase State SAA Funding Yields Results – But Hud Approach Could Cheat States Again
MHARR has learned from multiple sources that the HUD manufactured housing program is considering increasing per unit payments to State Administrative Agencies (SAAs) from current levels – i.e., $2.50 per floor for each unit sited in the recipient state and $9.00 per floor for each unit manufactured in the recipient state …
Texas City Reverses Decision, Votes to Allow Manufactured Housing
Following up on a post MHProNews wrote July 13, 2015, regarding the Huntsville, Texas, City Council’s vote to prohibit the new siting of manufactured homes within the city limits, D. J. Pendleton, Executive Director of the Texas Manufactured Housing Association (TMHA), informs MHProNews the city council reversed its decision. The …
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War of Words? DC’s The Hill Congressional Blog on Manufactured Housing Finance Reform
While the Corporation for Enterprise Development’s (CFED) Doug Ryan nominally supports manufactured homes (MH) as affordable housing for low income consumers, his response to The Hill about Rep. Steve Fincher’s call to ease the regulatory burdens on prospective purchasers of MH demonstrably misses the mark. As MHProNews and MHLivingNews publisher L. …
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Lawsuit Challenges Removal of Manufactured Home Carports
A class action lawsuit has been filed on behalf of 22 owners of manufactured homes (MH) in Burnside, Minnesota after the city sent notices telling the homeowners they need to remove their carports because they were installed without permits, according to kstp-tv5. City Code Enforcement Coordinator Christopher Forslund said the …
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Today’s Manufactured Homes – Amazingly Low Complaints, per Federal Report
M. Mark Weiss, JD – President and CEO of the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR), in an email to MHProNews and the Journal, said that the reported termination of the dispute resolution (DR) subcontract between the Savan Group LLC and HUD’s entrenched monitoring contractor, the Institute for Building …
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Rep. Fincher: CFPB Continues to Prevent Access to Manufactured Housing for Millions
In thehill blog, Rep. Stephen Fincher (R-TN), a member of the House Financial Services Committee reiterates his call for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to support his bill to restore access to financing for manufactured home buyers. He writes, “Manufactured homes are commonly more affordable than a rent payment and …
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