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Sunday Morning Recap-Manufactured Housing Industry News Sept. 20-Sept. 27, 2015

By / September 26, 2015 / Advocacy, Business, Canada, Communities, Company News, Economy, Factory-Built Homes, Finance, home buyers, Legal, Legislation, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, Modular, People, regulation, RV, Stocks, Trends

What’s New in public focused Manufactured HomeLivingNews.com The Kennedy – Model Home Video Tour – New Durham Estates, Westville, IN Jack and Betsy Norman, Whispering Pines 55+ Manufactured Home Community, Somerset, PA What’s New in Manufactured Housing Industry Professional News Justice Dept. settles two MHC discrimination suits. Judge clears path …

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Justice Strikes Again – another Manufactured Home Operation Settles Case

By / September 23, 2015 / Advocacy, Business, Communities, Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, mobile home, regulation

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and Hope Fair Housing tell MHProNews that the DOJ has announced “that the owners and operators of the Williams Trailer Court mobile home park in Marion, Illinois, had agreed to pay $75,000 to settle allegations that they discriminated against African Americans and families with children, …

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Marty Lavin, JD – Dodd-Frank, CFPB Manufactured Home Regulations Impact on Owners, Businesses

By / September 22, 2015 / Business, Economy, home buyers, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, mobile home, People, regulation

5 years after its passage, Dodd-Frank remains one of the hotly contested legacies of the Obama Administration. Supporters of the law believe that it provides important consumer protections. Others point to facts suggesting CFPB over-reach with respect to manufactured housing chattel – or personal property, “home-only loans” – are creating …

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Battle Rages over Repurposing of California Manufactured Home Communities

By / September 15, 2015 / Business, Communities, Company News, Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, regulation

Following a story MHProNews posted Feb. 27, 2014 regarding Winchester Ranch manufactured home community (MHC) in San Jose, California, the battle over some of the most expensive land in the country that sits under MHCs in Silicon Valley continues to burn brightly, much like the fires consuming parts of northern …

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Federal Housing Discrimination Suit Filed against Pearl, Mississippi

By / September 4, 2015 / Business, Communities, Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, regulation

Following a story MHProNews posted Aug. 27, 2015 regarding a judge’s ruling that the city of Pearl, Mississippi was illegally trying to eradicate manufactured home communities (MHCs) through attrition, three owners of Pearl MHCs have filed a Federal lawsuit charging the city with “purposeful discrimination” against low-and-middle-income housing, according to …

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CFPB Slammed for Publishing Unverified Complaints

By / September 3, 2015 / Advocacy, Business, Finance, home buyers, Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, regulation

With the only verification of complaints by consumers against companies that there was a transaction of some sort, the mortgage finance industry remains perplexed by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s publishing of unverified and anonymous charges against specific companies in their complaint narrative database. Since many of the complaints contain …

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Transit Oriented Development in Relation to Affordable Housing

By / September 2, 2015 / Communities, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, regulation

Following a Supreme Court’s ruling in June regarding disparate impact, and the subsequent requirement that cities receiving HUD funding must be wary of siting affordable housing away from amenities and the opportunities of urban living, two Chicago activists highlight the problem of transportation inequality, according to nextcity. Brendan Sanders of …

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Modular Building Raising the Roof One Floor; MH Related Bills that were Checked

By / September 2, 2015 / Business, Factory-Built Homes, Legal, Legislation, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, Modular, regulation

The Texas Manufactured Housing Association (TMHA) informs MHProNews that both houses of the legislature voted to allow modular buildings and housing to be built four stories high, or 60 feet. Several of TMHA’s members expressed an interest in building modular hotels, multi-family and assisted living facilities in order to compete …

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Is the CFPB Protecting us from Buying Homes?

By / September 2, 2015 / Advocacy, Business, Economy, Finance, home buyers, Legal, Legislation, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, regulation

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 …

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Sunday Morning Recap-Manufactured Housing Industry News Aug. 23-Aug. 30, 2015

By / August 29, 2015 / Advocacy, Business, Canada, Communities, Company News, Economy, Factory-Built Homes, Finance, home buyers, Legal, Legislation, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, Modular, People, regulation, Trends, Zoning

What’s New in public focused Manufactured HomeLivingNews.com Renters’ Nation: The Dark Side of Dodd-Frank and Its Impact on Affordable Housing Mary Zokoe talks Martin Motor Sports, Community Guidelines, More! Inside MH Road Show Video What’s New in Manufactured Housing Industry Professional News CFPB imposed appraisal rule on HPML loans one …

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Title Company Head says Mortgage Disclosure Rules will Delay Home Sales

By / August 28, 2015 / Business, Economy, Finance, home buyers, Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, People, regulation

Ted C. Jones, chief economist and senior vice president for Stewart Title Guaranty Co. in Houston, says financing the buying and selling of houses will be much more difficult when the mortgage disclosure rules go in to effect Oct. 1, as newsok tells MHProNews. “We’re going to continue to have …

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Judge Rules Manufactured Home Community’s Right to Replace Homes

By / August 27, 2015 / Business, Communities, Company News, Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, mobile home, regulation

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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Texas City Allows only Newer Manufactured Homes to be Sited

By / August 25, 2015 / Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, mobile home, regulation

MHProNews has learned from athensreview the Athens (Texas) City Council voted to amend an ordinance that alters the age of manufactured homes (MH) that are allowed to be sited in the city. The ordinance originally allowed MH from 1990 to be moved in, according to Athens Director of Planning and …

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Sunday Morning Recap-Manufactured Housing Industry News Aug. 16-Aug. 23, 2015

By / August 22, 2015 / Advocacy, Business, Communities, Company News, Economy, Factory-Built Homes, Finance, home buyers, Legal, Legislation, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, Modular, People, regulation, RV, Stocks, Trends

What’s New in public focused Manufactured HomeLivingNews.com Stan Dye talks Manufactured Home Lending and MH Site Preparation Do-It-Yourself Heat Tape Video! Prevent Winter Freeze Ups for Manufactured Homes and Houses over Crawl Spaces What’s New in Manufactured Housing Industry Professional News PBS Story on MH Finance Due. Sun, UMH, Adding …

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CA City to Allow Manufactured Homes Among Conventional Housing

By / August 21, 2015 / Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, regulation

The City Council of Sanger, California is holding a public hearing to consider amending the municipal code to allow manufactured homes on property zoned for conventional single-family residences. The change would bring the code up to date with state law, according to thesangerherald. In a related public hearing, city council …

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California City Relinquishes Enforcement of Land Lease Communities

By / August 18, 2015 / Communities, Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, regulation

The Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) has informed MHProNews that the city council of San Clemente, California is voting to relinquish its enforcement responsibility for the manufactured home communities in the city, and refer that responsibility back to the California Department of Housing and Community Development. City council cited budgetary constraints …

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Bill would Give a Voice to Smaller Lenders within the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

By / August 17, 2015 / Advocacy, Business, Finance, home buyers, Legal, Legislation, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, regulation

A measure introduced in the Senate by U. S. Senators Mike Rounds (R-SD) and Angus King (I-ME) would give community banks, credit unions and small businesses a say in the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) rulemaking process, according to what dsnews tells MHProNews. Known as the Bureau of Consumer Financial …

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Manufactured Home Community Owners, Residents at Odds over Infrastructure Repairs

By / August 16, 2015 / Business, Communities, Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, regulation

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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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is Rife with Discrimination

By / August 15, 2015 / Advocacy, Business, Economy, Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, regulation

Writing in townhall, Ken Blackwell says the four-year old Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) discriminates against the people it has vowed to protect, inside and outside the agency, and is riddled with waste, inefficiency and mismanagement. Noting Director Richard Cordray would be out of a job if the agency was …

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Secondary Market for Manufactured Home Loans Directive Due Soon

By / August 14, 2015 / Advocacy, Communities, Finance, home buyers, Legal, Legislation, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, regulation

While the “duty to serve” mandate requiring loans be made available for manufactured home purchases has been on the books since 2008 but never enforced, it may soon see the light of day. The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) is set to require Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to purchase …

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