Following another chapter in the attempt by the Dublin, Ireland City Council to site up to 500 modular homes to house the homeless, as MHProNews last reported Jan. 18, 2016, Pinewood Residents and the Balbriggan Community Council (BCC), where the first 22 homes were to be sited, have vowed to …
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Updating a story MHProNews last posted Jan. 8, 2016 regarding a modular home being sited in Cape Coral, Florida that is raising hackles from residents and Realtors who maintain the home is threatening property values, dozens of people attended a city council meeting to further protest the $200,000 home. While …
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What’s New in public focused Manufactured HomeLivingNews.com Reality Check – Living Better When Quality Living Costs Less Outside the Box: Inventing New Looks for Manufactured Homes What’s New in Manufactured Housing Industry Professional News Manufactured Housing Administrator Danner speaks at Louisville. What could slow retail sales mean for manufactured housing. …
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Pamela Beck Danner, Administrator for the Office of Manufactured Housing at the Department of Housing and Urban Development, addressed attendees at the Louisville Manufactured Housing Show. Danner previous experience includes service as an attorney with the Office of HUD’s General Counsel. In 1982 she was appointed Director of the Office of …
HUD’s Manufactured Housing Head Danner Speaks in Louisville Read More
The TOPGUN (Tenants of Pine Gardens Uniting Neighbors) Association of Pine Gardens Mobile Home Park in Belmont, New Hampshire will meet at the Belknap County Complex in Laconia, NH, Sat., Jan 30. According to what citizen tells MHProNews. Lois Parris, the president of Manufactured Home Owners and Tenants Association of …
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While terms of the acquisition were not disclosed, Zeman Homes, Inc. has informed MHProNews it has acquired four manufactured home communities (MHC) in the greater Detroit metropolitan area. All age communities Wagon Wheel, Wagon Wheel South, Carleton and Oak Haven have added 749 home sites to Zeman’s portfolio of MHCs, …
Zeman adds four Manufactured Home Communities to Portfolio Read More
Retail sales on the year fell to their lowest pace since 2009, climbing only 2.1 percent for the year, the smallest gain since the Great Recession ended, raising concerns about consumer spending going into 2016. As bloomberg informs MHProNews the 0.1 percent drop in Dec., 2015 followed a gain of …
What does collapsing Walmart, other retail sales mean for Manufactured Housing? Read More
Continuing to follow the saga of the Dublin, Ireland, City Council’s attempts to site 500 modular homes to house homeless families in several different areas of the city, as MHProNews last reported Jan. 11, 2016, residents of Belcamp, Coolock are opposing plans to site 38 of the units in their …
Another Irish Neighborhood Leery of Modular Homes for the Homeless Read More
What’s New in public focused Manufactured HomeLivingNews.com Bad and Good – Two Sides – Manufactured Home Living and News Reporting What’s New in Manufactured Housing Industry Professional News Ishbel Dickens refuses debate with Carla Burr over PBS NewsHour report. Part of MHC to close. Jurisdiction ready to impose master meter …
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Amid the pressing need for affordable housing in this country, as rents rise and incomes remain static, a federal tax law enacted last month may lead to the increased production of affordable rental housing, although the rise may be minimal, according to what housing experts tell nationalmortgagenews. A part of …
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After receiving what he said were threats following a CBS7 report that his son was allegedly taking advantage of customers in his manufactured home business, Odessa, TX businessman Angel Nabarette said of his son’s business, “If anything needs to be reported, it’s that Five Star Manufactured Homes is ripping people …
Manufactured Home Retailer Allegedly Absconds with Customers’ Funds Read More
Opening with an analysis about the dynamics behind mainstream media coverage, MHLivingNews publisher L. A. ‘Tony’ Kovach used that to focus attention on the recent PBS NewsHour report that featured Carla Burr, titled Bad and Good – Two Sides – Manufactured Home Living and News Reporting. Kovach reminds us of the rule of …
A Peguis First Nation family in Manitoba, Canada, which has been forced to move 15 times since the flood of 2011, moved into a brand new modular home last year only to discover it had faulty ventilation, electrical and structural problems as well as mold issues, according to winnipeg.ctvnews.ca. During …
Problems with New Modular Homes Wreaking Havoc on First Nations Land Read More
What’s New in public focused Manufactured HomeLivingNews.com What PBS NewsHour Missed About Manufactured Home Living Nicole Barker compares her Modular Home with conventional construction What’s New in Manufactured Housing Industry Professional News FHFA may securitize chattel loans. PBS NewsHOur critical of MH industry, as HUD Code production gains sharply in …
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The nominating committee for the inductees into the RV/MH Hall of Fame had to narrow down a field of 72 to ten people, as MHProNews understands. The Board of Directors of the Heritage Foundation hereby presents the Class of 2016: Gary Bunzer, Bunzer Consulting, 40 years as an RV training …
The 7,000 square foot duplex condominium penthouse once owned by Richard Klarchek, former head of Chicago-based Capital First Realty, which owned a portfolio of manufactured home communities (MHCs) around the Midwest, sold for $4.25 million last month, according to chicagobusiness. It came on the market in Feb. at $6.4 million. …
Updating the story MHProNews last posted Dec. 12, 2015 regarding the clean-up of debris from the wildfires in northern California, Fire Recovery Coordinator Carol Hutchingson said 21 Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) manufactured homes (MH) have been sited in Lake County. Most of them are at Lake Village Estates in …
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In insider trading, Chales E. Lott, president of Fleetwood Homes, a division of Cavco, Industries (CVCO), sold 1,516 shares of company stock at an average price of $95.25 per share for a transaction valued at $144,399.00. He currently owns 2,000 shares of the company with a value of $190,500, according …
According to bloomberg, the Conference Board’s Dec. sentiment index advanced to 96.5 from a revised Nov. reading of 92.6. The median of a survey of economists was 93.5. MHProNews understands American optimism about the economy and job market has risen. Cheaper fuel costs and an improving labor market have given …
