MHI members have been busy working on various technology solutions to meet increased energy efficiency standards for manufactured homes that could be beneficial for HUD-Code manufacturers to meet anticipated new DOE energy efficiency standards for manufactured homes, and for modular builders to meet state energy efficiency codes utilizing less costly …
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JetsonGreen reports the completion of another i-House in eco-friendly Green Bridge Farm. The 25 lot subdivision is located in Effingham County, GA. The owner, Charles Davis, doesn’t expect to have an electric bill because the home has a butterfly roof with solar panels. The home is generating enough electricity to …
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RealDeal reports on a recent study by the Urban Land Institute (ULI) which looks at the market impact of the nation’s eighty million echo boomers. Echo boomers, are age 18-32 and are also known as Gen Y and millennials. This group has 200 billion in annual buying power. Carol Ruiz, …
PressEnteprise reports that Calimsa’s CA City Council will review the rent control ordinance on August 15th. A full house is expected as residents and community owners plan to attend the hearing. City Manager Randy Anstine stated they will make no decisions but will take input on the topic. A sunset …
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SFGate reports the debate taking shape over the Dodd-Frank Act and its impact on financing and American housing. Seven agencies working under twin Dodd-Frank mandates decide in months which mortgages will be labeled low-risk. “This is the first step in reshaping our housing finance system,” said Ethan Handelman, vice president …
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CFPB Director Nomination Hearing Scheduled for Next Week; Warren Leaving CFPB August 1 Next week the Senate Banking Committee will be holding a hearing on the nomination of former Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray to be the first-ever Director of the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection (CFPB). Once a …
SanJuanCapistranoPatch reports a controversial plan to close the Capistrano Terrace ‘mobile home park’ has been placed on hold. Capistrano Terrace Ltd. filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and owes the city of San Juan Capistrano $7,548 in administrative fees. “…due to the bankruptcy, funding is not available and cannot be …
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As alluded to in our status report earlier today, the House Financial Services Committee held a mark-up session today on H.R. 1751, a bill that would require HUD Code manufactured homes to be sold with a weather radio having certain prescriptive capabilities and features. The most important element of the …
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The Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) reports the House Financial Services Committee held a hearing on H.R. 1751 that would require all Housing and Urban Development code (HUD Code) manufactured homes be sold with a weather radio. During the hearing, Rep Barney Frank (D-MA.) proposed the establishment of …
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Business Insider reports that President Obama has picked former Ohio Attorney General (AG) Richard Cordray to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). He became AG in Ohio in 2009 when the previous officeholder had to step down, and garnered some national attention when he went after big banks for …
The Times Daily says only 4,712 of the 44,209 loan applications distributed by FEMA across Alabama following the deadly tornadoes of April 27 have been returned. Maximum Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) emergency assistance for a new home, or repairs to a damaged one, is $32,000, not enough for a …
Origination News says under a new home-buyers incentive program by Fifth Third Mortgage Co. of Cincinnati, Ohio, borrowers can have a reduced rate on their purchase money mortgage. They can choose to have their basis points lowered by 12.5 basis points over the life of the loan, or by 100 …
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HUD’s Regulatory Expansion violates sections of the Law While the original 1974 federal manufactured housing law included specific procedural and substantive requirements for the development and adoption of federal manufactured housing construction and safety standards, it contained no parallel requirements for the development of enforcement-related regulations. Congress changed this in …
HUD has not Implement Enhanced Federal Preemption Federal preemption, with regard to federally-regulated manufactured housing, is essential to ensure interstate commerce, avoid discriminatory state or local standards or regulations, and to protect the balance between affordability and the full protection of homeowners that is required by federal law. Based on …
YourHomeCanada says a company named Modular Additions is busy adding modular second storeys to many of the pre- and post-WWII bungalows that dot Toronto. Owner Vadja Jericevic says there are about 13 basic designs among the 70,000 bungalows in Toronto, and he has drawn up plans for each that can …
Responding to the need to provide housing for over 600 families in Joplin, Missouri, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) will utilize its existing inventory of Temporary Housing Units to build a large, temporary manufactured home community on a 50 acre parcel of city owned land. A number of existing …
NWCN reports from Spokane, Washington, that the city will use a double-section manufactured home as a fire station for at least five years. Without capital to build a new firehouse, the city will spend $10,000 to buy this facility from the Valley Fire Department, and construct an over-sized garage to …
As a follow-up to MHARR’s initial June 16, 2011 report, the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) has now released, in written form, a modification to its proposed federal fire sprinkler standard that was addressed verbally during the June 15, 2011 conference call meeting of the Technical Structure and Design Subcommittee of …
TodaysTHV says dozens of new Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) homes have arrived in Little Rock for distribution to Arkansas survivors of the tornadoes and flooding that displaced residents between April 14 and June 3. FEMA initially tries to place people in rental housing, but if none is available, the …
On June 16, the House Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Subcommittee approved a nearly $20 billion FY 2012 spending bill (currently unnumbered). The measure is roughly $2 billion (nine percent) under current spending. The measure now awaits consideration by the full House Appropriations Committee. The Senate has not yet …
