Following a story MHProNews posted July 27, 2015 regarding the possibility that the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) may increase payments to State Administrative Agencies (SAAs), the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) states that HUD’s proposed overall funding to the SAAs would diminish because part of …
Two Texas mortgage lenders who were “engaged in a scheme to charge bogus fees to consumers, which improperly inflated mortgages for borrowers purchasing newly constructed manufactured housing,” agreed to settlements with the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Mortgagee Review Board (MRB), according to themreport. For violations of the …
Lenders Fined, Lose FHA Approval Status for Manufactured Home Lending Fraud Read More
What’s New in public focused Manufactured HomeLivingNews.com Paul Simon, Singing Homeward Bound, Doing Good Work and MH The Hybrid Core – A Different Style Factory Home-Building Process What’s New in Manufactured Housing Industry Professional News HUD Code Production Continues Rising. RV/MH Hall of Fame Inducts Class of 2015. Positive End …
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MHProNews has learned from sanjose.granicus that the cityof San Jose, California has 59 land lease communities comprised of 10,836 manufactured and mobile homes housing approximately 35,000 residents. Many of the residents are elderly and some are disabled, sometimes both. San Jose has the highest concentration MH and MH households of …
San Jose, California Seeks to Forestall Conversion of Land Lease Communities Read More
A plan to develop a 302 site seniors manufactured home community (MHC) in Nulkaba, New South Wales, Australia has been derailed by the Cessnock City Council, citing objections from neighbors who complained it would detract from the rural character of the neighborhood, and would increase alcohol abuse, crime and trespassing …
Planned Australian Manufactured Home Community Denied Read More
What’s New in public focused Manufactured HomeLivingNews.com Art Linkletter and Manufactured Housing today Maintaining Quality and Strength While Saving Homebuyers Money – Inside MH Video with Mike Stone, part 2 What’s New in Manufactured Housing Industry Professional News Texas city lifts ban on MH after show of strength by industry …
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An OpEd in Tampa’s tbo entitled Fairness and Respect for Florida’s Manufactured Home Owners has put a local focus on the OpEd in thehill in which MHLivingNews and MHProNews publisher L. A. “Tony” Kovch notes the unintended consequences of the Dodd-Frank Act that make lending on manufactured homes valued at or …
Tampa OpEd Calling for Fairness and Respect Resonating with Manufactured Home Industry Read More
Port St. Joe, Florida residents are up in arms over the proposed siting of a manufactured home (MH) in their subdivision, according to whjg-tv, saying it will lower their property values. Some residents are not sure if it is an MH or modular, leading the city to put a stop …
Florida City wants to Extend ban on Manufactured Homes Read More
In the wake of the story MHProNews posted July 22, 2015 regarding the city council of Huntsville, Texas changing its mind to allow manufactured homes (MH) within the city limits after first denying their placement, Executive Director D. J. Pendleton of the Texas Manufactured Housing Association (TMHA) has issued a …
Seeking Problems/Success Stories with Siting Manufactured Homes in Texas Read More
Consistent with what the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) has been asking for since 2000, MHARR informs MHProNews that the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) manufactured housing program may be increasing payments to State Administrative Agencies (SAAs). Currently, the SAAs receive $2.50 per floor for each …
HUD Manufactured Housing Program may Increase State Payments; MHCC to Meet Read More
According to reuters, the U. S Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has ruled the State National Bank of Big Spring, Texas has legal standing to challenge the constitutionality of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) as well as the appointment of its director, Richard Cordray. Being …
Appeals Court Rules Challenge to CFPB’s Existence can Move Forward Read More
What’s New in public focused Manufactured HomeLivingNews.com > A Hunter and Native American Decorator’s Dream! John Howard’s Home, Inside MH Road Show Video > How A Manufactured Modular Home Production Center Achieves Savings and Quality – Inside MH Video with Mike Stone > 4 Easy Ways to Keep Your Home Clean What’s New …
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The Williams County Commission in Williston, North Dakota voted to adopt new guidelines putting restrictions on new or renewed applications for temporary housing as of August 1, 2015, as willistonherald reports. As the price of oil has fallen and the demand for oilfield workers has subsided, the commission is phasing …
Temporary Modular Housing being Restricted in Bakken Oilfield Read More
Writing in wsj, former Chairman of the Senate Banking Committee Phil Gramm, noting the effects of Dodd-Frank on the banking system, says although the Federal Reserve’s quantitative easing has increased bank reserves, lending has barely risen. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. reports that 1,341 commercial banks have closed since 2010, …
The Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) informs MHProNews on Thursday, the Senate Appropriations Committee passed its Fiscal Year 2016 Financial Services and General Government Appropriations bill, which includes the Preserving Access to Manufactured Housing Act (S. 682/H.R. 650) per Senate Banking Committee Chairman Richard Shelby’s (R-AL) request. While passage of the …
Help Ensure Passage of The Preserving Access to Manufactured Housing Act Read More
Following up on a post MHProNews wrote July 13, 2015, regarding the Huntsville, Texas, City Council’s vote to prohibit the new siting of manufactured homes within the city limits, D. J. Pendleton, Executive Director of the Texas Manufactured Housing Association (TMHA), informs MHProNews the city council reversed its decision. The …
Texas City Reverses Decision, Votes to Allow Manufactured Housing Read More
While the Corporation for Enterprise Development’s (CFED) Doug Ryan nominally supports manufactured homes (MH) as affordable housing for low income consumers, his response to The Hill about Rep. Steve Fincher’s call to ease the regulatory burdens on prospective purchasers of MH demonstrably misses the mark. As MHProNews and MHLivingNews publisher L. …
War of Words? DC’s The Hill Congressional Blog on Manufactured Housing Finance Reform Read More
What’s New in public focused Manufactured HomeLivingNews.com Congressman Stephen Fincher is demanding Fairness for MH owners Deer Valley CFO Steve Lawler Inside MH Video and Home Tour Cancer Cures and Today’s MH What’s New in Manufactured Housing Industry Professional News The Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform’s (MHARR) Mark Weiss documents …
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M. Mark Weiss, JD – President and CEO of the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR), in an email to MHProNews and the Journal, said that the reported termination of the dispute resolution (DR) subcontract between the Savan Group LLC and HUD’s entrenched monitoring contractor, the Institute for Building …
Today’s Manufactured Homes – Amazingly Low Complaints, per Federal Report Read More
Following a story MHProNews posted July 8, 2015 regarding the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) postponement of implementing mortgage loan transactions under the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA) and Truth-in-Lending Act (TILA), or TRID, Senate bill S. 1711 would provide temporary safe harbor from that enforcement. According to nationalmortgageprofessional, …
Senate Bill 1711 Provides for TRID Hold-harmless Period Read More
