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MHARR says the DOE is Seeking Support for New Manufactured Home Energy Standards

By / June 11, 2015 / Advocacy, Business, Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, regulation

The Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) tells MHProNews a Department of Energy (DOE) contractor, Navigant Consulting, is contacting producers of manufactured housing, especially smaller manufacturers, to obtain feedback on new proposed energy standards for manufactured housing. MHARR maintains the new standards are unnecessary and excessively costly, although they …

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Pennsylvania Legislature Weighs Manufactured Home Community Rent Control

By / June 10, 2015 / Communities, Legal, Legislation, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, regulation

The Senate of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is considering a measure that would allow residents of manufactured home communities (MHC) the opportunity to challenge a rent increase in their community. Senator Stewart Greenleaf says many MHC residents are seniors on fixed incomes whose rent increases rise faster than the cost …

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Sunday Recap May 31, 2015-June 6, 2015

By / June 6, 2015 / Advocacy, Business, Canada, Communities, Company News, Economy, Factory-Built Homes, Finance, Green, home buyers, Legal, Legislation, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, Modular, People, regulation, Trends

In manufactured housing news, L. A. “Tony” Kovach defines path to revitalize the MH industry, while one MH supplier picks new head, another MH producer closes, HUD Code production continues rising, MHC reverting to stick-built homes, Cavco seeks tax abatement, AZ MHC closing, Sen. Donnelly and MHI’s Jennison defend H.R. …

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Turning Renters to Manufactured Home Buyers

By / June 5, 2015 / Business, Economy, Finance, home buyers, Legislation, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, regulation, Trends

MHLivingNews and MHProNews publisher L.A. “Tony” Kovach follows the time line formation of renter households versus homeowner households, from the New Deal’s attempts to increase homeownership in 1933 to present day attempts, correlating Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac expansion with economic programs, artificially induced interest rates and subsidies to stimulate …

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Technology has Revolutionized Manufactured Homes

By / June 4, 2015 / Business, Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, mobile home, regulation

The phone at the Home Center rings or a customer walks in and asks for information about “trailer houses” or “mobile homes,” phrases which smack of thin walls and floors, cheap paneling, fire traps, unsafe, low rent occupants, etc., imagery that goes back nearly 40 years. Returning to that era, …

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The Path to the Rebirth of the Manufactured Housing Industry

By / June 3, 2015 / Advocacy, Economy, Finance, home buyers, Legal, Legislation, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, People, regulation

Through a series of interviews with manufactured housing industry professionals, politicians and consumers and a bevy of statistics and graphs, MHLivingNews and MHProNews publisher L. A “Tony” Kovach documents the pitfalls and stumbling blocks that prevent manufactured housing from becoming a major player in meeting the growing need for affordable, …

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Senator Joe Donnelly Responds to Criticism of The Preserving Access to Manufactured Housing Act

By / June 2, 2015 / Finance, home buyers, Legal, Legislation, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, People, regulation

On the heels of the Seattle Times/Center for Public Integrity’s stinging criticism alleging predatory lending practices by the manufactured housing industry in general, and Warren Buffett/Clayton Homes in particular, MHProNews reached out to Sen. Joe Donnelly (D-IN), who introduced the bipartisan bill S 682, Preserving Access to Manufactured Housing in …

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Tiny Homes for the Homeless

By / May 28, 2015 / Advocacy, Communities, Factory-Built Homes, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Modular, People, regulation

While many may think of the tiny house movement as the province of hipsters, artists and young professionals who eschew the world of McMansions and material goods, there are a number of enclaves nationwide for the chronically homeless and disabled that speak to efficiency and quality of life. Eugene, Oregon’s …

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City Undecided about Manufactured Home Ordinance

By / May 27, 2015 / Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, mobile home, regulation

According to marlindemocrat, a request to site a manufactured home (MH) near the Marlin Men’s Civic Association building led to some confusion at the Marlin (Texas) City Council meeting recently. While city attorney Mike Dixon remembered drafting an ordinance regarding the placement of MH, City Secretary Sandra Herring said no …

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Before you Dismantle Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Ginnie Mae………

By / May 26, 2015 / Business, Economy, home buyers, Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, People, regulation

While he supports free enterprise in the mortgage market, former Ginnie Mae President Joseph Murin, in a blog on housingwire, says without the federal guarantee offered by the Federal Housing Administration, the Department of Agriculture and Veterans Administration mortgages, the U. S. economy may have fallen farther than it did. …

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Georgia Senator Introduces Measure to Harness CFPB

By / May 26, 2015 / Advocacy, Business, Finance, Legal, Legislation, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, People, regulation

U. S. Senator David Perdue (R-GA) has introduced legislation to make the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) more accountable by bringing it under the Congressional appropriations process and thereby give it Congressional oversight, according to nationalmortgageprofessional. The CFPB is currently under the Federal Reserve which is beyond the each of …

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Sunday Recap May 18-May 23, 2015

By / May 23, 2015 / Advocacy, Awards, Business, Communities, Company News, Economy, Factory-Built Homes, Finance, home buyers, Legal, Legislation, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, Modular, People, regulation, Stocks, Trends, Zoning

In this week’s News: Despite Zoning, MH would be Replaced. Modular Housing adding up. Builder Confidence Slips. Aries Mods in NC. Art’s Way Honored. Deer Valley Stock Zooms. Owning Cheaper than Renting. Good Housing Deals in Rust Belt. Rent Stabilization Extended. Mainstream Media Hinders MH Buyers with no Recourse. Correct …

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Senate Banking Committee Passes Manufactured Housing Finance Reform

By / May 21, 2015 / Business, Finance, home buyers, Legal, Legislation, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, regulation

The Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) informs MHProNews that the Senate Banking Committee passed regulatory relief legislation that had been drafted by Committee Chairman Richard Shelby (R-AL). The 12-10 vote along party lines represents the most significant change to Dodd-Frank since it was enacted. Section 108 of the bill includes provisions …

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HUD Terminates Contractual Relationship of Savan and IBTS

By / May 20, 2015 / Advocacy, Business, Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, regulation

The Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) informs MHProNews that the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has terminated the dispute resolution (DR) subcontract the Savan Group, LLC has enjoyed with the manufactured housing program contractor, the Institute for Building Technology and Safety (IBTS). MHARR pointed out in …

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Brownsboro Refuses to Allow Manufactured Homes a Home

By / May 20, 2015 / Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, mobile home, People, regulation

Steve Larson and his wife in Brownsboro, Texas asked the city council May 14 for an exemption that would allow them to site two manufactured homes (MH) on property they own within the city. Mayor Terry Mills replied that before he took office an ordinance was adopted prohibiting MH in …

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Rezoning Helps Manufactured Home Residents Buy, Sell Property

By / May 20, 2015 / Business, Communities, Company News, Finance, home buyers, Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, mobile home, regulation

From La Center, Washington MHProNews has learned the Country Hills Estates manufactured home community (MHC) was originally zoned as a condo complex because it was outside the city and the county refused to give it the designation afforded an MHC. As a result, when homeowners tried to sell their homes …

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Will Matt Drudge, Fox or CNN Spotlight Unfair Challenges Harming Millions of Manufactured Home Owners?

By / June 25, 2015 / Advocacy, Business, Communities, Economy, Finance, home buyers, Legal, Legislation, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, mobile home, People, regulation

  The Seattle Times/Center for Public Integrity has allegedly targeted Clayton Homes and Berkshire-Hathaway affiliated finance companies in an attempt to derail much needed reforms to Dodd-Frank which harm millions of manufactured home (MH) owners and thousands of MH businesses. Mike Baker and Daniel Wagner – writers of the Seattle …

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Sunset Date Extended for El Monte, CA

By / May 19, 2015 / Communities, Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, regulation

The available amount of manufactured home sites in 50 distinct California manufactured home communities (MHCs) is 1.34 percent as presented to the El Monte City Council Feb 24, 2015 by Kenneth K. Barr, who conducted the study. The city of El Monte has 33 MHCs consisting of 1,427 homesites, and …

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Sunday Morning Recap May 11-May 16, 2015

By / May 16, 2015 / Awards, Business, Canada, Communities, Company News, Economy, Factory-Built Homes, home buyers, Legal, Legislation, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, Modular, People, regulation, RV, Stocks, Zoning

ROC USA notches 113th Co-op. MHC Owners Honors Industry Members. RV/MH Chooses 2015 Class. Deer Valley Plummets. Rising Rents makes MH Living more Feasible. World Expo Modular. New MHC Approved. CDBG not for MH. England Modulars. Sen. Shelby proposes MH Access. Habitat Modular in New Jersey. Nadeen Green Honored. Aussie …

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Manufactured Home Community has Right to Re-rent Homesites

By / May 15, 2015 / Advocacy, Communities, Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, mobile home, regulation

The Mississippi Supreme Court upheld an appeal’s court ruling which gives the Cleveland Mobile Home Park in Richland, MS the right to re-rent vacated homesites in the manufactured home community (MHC). The city of Richland wanted to reduce density in the MHC, arguing homesite re-use was non-conforming and therefore in …

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