Washington, D.C – The Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR), tells MHProNews that it has now formally called on Congress to review and reject the panned final regulation adopted by DOE under the Congressional Review Act (CRA). In a January 6, 2017 communication to the Chairmen of the Senate …
MHARR Calls for Congressional Review, Rejection of DOE Rule Read More
The Daily Business News has provided in-depth coverage of the reaction to the National Public Radio (NPR) broadcast and story Mobile Home Park Owners Can Spoil An Affordable American Dream, and the attack on investor owned communities by MHAction. The ongoing response from the industry’s professionals is to keep pointing …
NPR, MHAction memo, Cities Raise Fees, Close Manufactured Home Communities too Read More
A new year, a new month, and a new set of featured articles are found on the MHProNews.com home page. Our theme for will be posted on the Masthead blog Tuesday. More Featured Articles will be posted Tuesday, including addtional ones that are upcoming trade show related. To see the …
In an op-ed by Robert Romano, Senior Editor at Americans for Limited Government, addressed three ways that incoming HUD Secretary Ben Carson could end public housing at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). To set the stage for Romano’s column, recall that in selecting Carson for the role …
Texas Manufactured Housing Association (TMHA) executive director, DJ Pendleton, will be part of a January 23, single-day 2017 Houston Market Area Event and forum for manufactured home community owners. Pendleton will be discussing TMHA’s role during the 2017 Texas Legislative Session, what bills TMHA is working to pass and defeat, …
Texas Manufactured Housing Association Houston Metro Community Owners Event Approaches Read More
We are in the promise keeping business, said Vice-President-elect Mike Pence at a Capitol Hill News conference today. Pence told reporters that in keeping with President-elect Donald Trump’s classic three-part agenda for the American people, “Jobs, Jobs, Jobs” that the House and Senate Republicans were already planning moves to scale …
VP Elect Pence Vows Promises Will Be Kept, Jobs, ObamaCare and Regs in Video Read More
Almost as soon as the election results were known on November 9th, all facets of the mainstream media have struggled with the question, how did billionaire reality TV and business star Donald J. Trump win the election against Secretary Hillary Clinton? The latest clue has come from a new survey …
Gallup – U.S. Liberals Up, but America Still Center-Right Nation Politically Read More
Ed Shukle is the City Administrator of the City of Landfall, in Oakdale Township, near the Twin Cities. With an eye to history and the future, Shukle has weaved an account that points-the-way that affordable housing was created and preserved, first with pre-HUD Code mobile homes, and later with post-code …
Movie Stars & Quality Affordable Homes – How a Park became a Community and “City” Read More
Breaking news – President-elect Donald Trump has announced that Sprint will be bringing thousands of jobs – about 5000 – back to the United States. A new company – OneWeb is hiring 3,000 people – the president-elect announced at a news conference minutes after 5 PM ET. Noteworthy headlines on CNNMoney –Trump’s …
Skyline, LPX Drop! Sun & ELS Buck Dive, MHCV Slips Again, Broader Markets Retreat Read More
“What a difference a day makes,” said Juanita Duggan, President and CEO of the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB). “Before Election Day small business owners’ optimism was flat, and after Election Day it soared.” “This month we bifurcated the data to measure the results before and after the election,” …
In a hotly contested property rights versus residents rights case, originally covered by the Daily Business News in September, a Santa Clara County, California Superior Court judge has reversed an order to close Buena Vista Mobile Home Park, Palo Alto’s last manufactured home community, based on a court filing from …
Judge Reverses Controversial Decision to Close Manufactured Home Community Read More
As December rolls on, the current featured articles are found on the MHProNews home page. Our theme for this month is: DAAD = Dramatic! Advent! Adventure! December 2016! To see the line-up of over 3-dozen featured articles for this month, along with the headline commentary, please click the link above. Manufactured, …
As President-elect Donald Trump moves closer to inauguration day, he is narrowing the list of candidates to fill critical roles at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and Federal Housing Administration (FHA). Per National Mortgage News, sources familiar with the situation say that the Trump team is considering …
President-Elect Trump Narrows Choices for Key Housing Positions Read More
As the year draws to a close, the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau (CFPB) is taking action, and is also facing scrutiny. According to Mortgage Daily News, The CFPB has entered into a consent order with Moneytree to settle allegations that the company engaged in deceptive advertising, sent consumers deceptive collection letters, …
MHProNews and MHLivingNews Publisher L.A. “Tony” Kovach has penned an open letter to newly appointed Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary, Dr. Ben Carson. “Let me begin by congratulating you and President-elect Donald J. Trump. By way of introduction, like you, my truly better half and I publicly supported Mr. …
Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC), the newly appointed chair of the House Freedom Caucus, presented President-elect Donald Trump with a special report entitled “First 100 Days: Rules, Regulations and Executive Orders to Examine, Revoke and Issue,” during a meeting on December 15th. Per the popular conservative news site Breitbart, with more than …
Trump’s First 100 Days: House Freedom Caucus Plans, Some Could Impact Factory Builders Read More
As December rolls on, a new set of featured articles are found on the MHProNews’ home page. Our theme for this month is: DAAD = Dramatic! Advent! Adventure! December 2016! To see the line-up of over 3-dozen featured articles for this month, along with the headline commentary, please click the link …
“The HUD Code has de facto become a discrimination code,” attorney Marty Lavin told MHProNews some months ago. Lavin – an award-winning expert with decades of manufactured home lending, communities and retailing experience – was pointing to incidents like the one in the Meyersdale Borough Council, near Somerset, Pennsylvania. The council …
“In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.” – Warren Buffett. We begin our new, periodic Flashback Friday series with some pithy Rearview Mirror quotes and images, starting with the one above that the Sage of Omaha has long applied in discerning where to invest. Buffett is known …
Washington, D.C. – The Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) reports to MHProNews that after review of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) release of its final rule to implement the “Duty to Serve Underserved Markets” (DTS) provision of the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 (HERA), the organization sees …
MHARR: FHFA Final Duty to Serve Rule Continues to Fail Manufactured Home Buyers Read More
