MHProNews.com has learned that Canada’s Killam Properties, Inc. has chosen Ms. Karine MacIndoe to serve as a director of the corporation. Chosen for her experience in finance, capital markets and real estate, she is currently an independent consultant but previously worked for BMO Capital Markets, NM Rothschild & Son and …
Sources have told MHProNews that Danny Ghorbani, President and CEO of the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) has once more allegedly made threatening statements directed at our publisher, as Ghorbani’s response to articles and commentaries published that analyze Ghorbani’s written/public statements. Why? “Our industry needs financing and is …
City officials in North Platte, Nebraska are reaching out to owners of manufactured home communities (MHCs) in developing minimum standards for manufactured homes, realizing that some people are bringing substandard homes into the city and then abandoning them instead of fixing them up. Zoning administrator Judy Clark says a Health …
City Developing New Ordinance for Manufactured Homes Read More
There is one number, often overlooked, that affects the growth of the housing sector as much as any other—the percent of the 25-to-34-year-olds who are working. Many of these young adults continue to live at home, which holds down household formation. As their employment numbers grow, they are more likely …
A Cup of Coffee with…Jenny Hodge
1) Who, What and Where: (Your name, formal title at the MHI/NCC and where you are based).
Jenny Hodge, Vice President – National Communities Council (NCC), Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI), Arlington, VA.
Sponsored by House Financial Services Committee member Rep. Sean Duffy (R-WI), the Consumer Financial Freedom and Washington Accountability Act, HR 3193, passed on a mostly party-line vote, would replace the director with a five-member commission and give Congress oversight of the budget. House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) …
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Reform Bill Passes House Read More
MHARR is an acronym that means Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform. Documents filed with the federal government indicate that MHARR has the mission “To improve relations between government and the industry engaged in the production of manufactured housing.” In a recent communique from one of MHARR’s president’s – Danny Ghorbani – …
In a commentary by MHProNews.com‘s publisher L. A. ‘Tony” Kovach, noting a recent advertisement by the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) targeted to industry lenders who are members of the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) in an attempt to have them join MHARR, he alludes to a 1971 Pogo …
Pooling Resources for Manufactured Housing, or Pulling them Apart? Read More
MHI Storms Capitol Hill The highlight of MHI’s Winter Meeting was the day that professionals from all aspects of the manufactured housing industry stormed Capitol Hill for visits with their Members of Congress to advocate on behalf of the industry. Undaunted by a real winter storm threatening the final day of the …
Landmark Properties wants to redevelop the 56-site Arrowhead Village manufactured housing community (MHC) in Flagstaff, Arizona into a 191-unit student housing complex. As the azdailysun.com reports, a meeting designed to meet the city’s zoning requirements and introduce the project to the public drew 100 people who wanted to know about …
Manufactured Housing Community Owner Plans Redevelopment Read More
by Andy Gallagher New rules effective in January, 2014, implement the Dodd-Frank Act, federal legislation aimed, in part, at protecting consumers from financial problems relating to home mortgages. One of the new rules relates to loan originator compensation (“LO Comp Rule”). Similar to the SAFE Act, which deals with state …
The U. S. Department of Justice has informed MHProNews.com that the owner and manager of Four Seasons Estates Mobile Home Park in Effingham, Illinois have been charged with violating the Fair Housing Act’s (FHA) prohibition against racial discrimination in their 126 homesite community. Owner Lorraine Wallschlaeger and manager Barbara Crubaugh, …
Following a story MHProNews.com first posted Aug. 23, 2013, both the Lake County (Calif.) Board of Supervisors and the Lakeport City Council have rent control initiatives regarding manufactured housing communities on separate ballots sponsored by a “Save our Seniors” group. While the county ballot is set for June, and the …
Rent Control Initiatives Challenged by Land Lease Community Owners Read More
The omnibus spending bill that Congress passed and the president signed to keep the federal government operating through 2014 includes provisions relating to manufactured housing. One in particular specifically requires the secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) select an administrator of the Office of Manufactured Housing within 120 days …
Government Budget Includes Manufactured Housing Provisions Read More
MHARR’s president “broadsided” HUD – as well as MHI – on Thursday, January 29th with an emailed release. The timing seemed odd, observers told MHProNews, as this took place in the immediate aftermath of an extraordinary semiannual oversight hearing on Capitol Hill. Chairman Jeb Hensarling’s Financial Services Committee had members …
MHARR’s HUD/MHI Missive: on the record, “No Comment,” but off the record… Read More
Attached for your information and review is a copy of a January 27, 2014 MHARR communication with the HUD Assistant Secretary for Housing-Federal Housing Commissioner addressing key issues that need to be resolved by the Department. As was discussed at the November 2013 MHARR Board of Directors meeting, this communication …
Intensified and Expanded Effort on HUD Compliance With Federal Law Read More
As the federal housing assistance program for victims of Hurricane Sandy winds down to an end April 1, over 80 New Jersey families continue to live in temporary quarters, including in manufactured homes (MH) in manufactured housing communities (MHCs). Gov. Chris Christie has asked the federal government to extend the …
Manufactured Housing Communities Continue Sheltering Sandy Victims Read More
The number of renter households is expected to increase five to six million in the next ten years above the nearly 40 million now in the housing stock, according to the National Association of Realtors (NAR). Even as Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies reports 162,000 one-time homeowners became …
Although Walker County, Alabama, just west of Birmingham was spared extensive damage during the April 2011 tornadoes that devastated several communities, work has begun on two of the 21 modular storm shelters approved by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Concrete pads have been poured in the Thach community and …
Following a story we first posted Oct. 21, 2013 regarding the proposed redevelopment of Vineland Vista Mobile Home Park in St. Helena, California owned by Vintner Hall Wines, the Napa Valley Planning Commission has delayed approval of the modification because the old ordinance does not allow for multifamily modular housing. …
