Some 22 years ago, a man purchased a manufactured home which was sited in a land-lease manufactured home community (MHC), sometimes errantly called a ‘mobile home park’ or ‘trailer park’ by numbers in media or in common communications. That man was Fred Neil. Neil has represented the 3rd District in […]
On July 11, 2021, MHProNews received the following message from Fred Neil, Dover City Councilman, Dover Delaware. His message speaks for itself, but by way of introduction specifically mentions his residency in RHP Properties. Bayshore Home Sales is RHP Properties manufactured home in community sales affiliate. Neil references the upcoming
“We Don’t Need More Subsidies, We Just Need More Homes At Prices People Can Afford,” said House Financial Services Committee Subcommittee Chair Mike Flood (NE-R) on 5.14.2025. This ought to be a great time to be in manufactured housing. But when industry statistics and trends (see Sunday Weekly Headlines Recap
Elisabeth “Liz” Voigt, J.D., has previously worked for HUD, the Obama presidential campaign, and several left-leaning groups, as her LinkedIn profile reflects. She has submitted on behalf of Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund (AFREF) and Manufactured Housing Action (MHAction) comments that will be shown below. Following her comments letter
The following is adapted from an email to Congressional staff sent to Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (LA-R) team and to Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (NY-D) communications director on this date (11.11.2025). MHProNews notes that in this MHVille facts-evidence-analysis (FEA) the formatting may be somewhat different, but the text,
What follows in Part I was originally published on The Conversation by attorney Cassie Powell, Assistant Professor of Law, Legal Practice, University of Richmond. “Private equity firms are snapping up mobile home parks − and driving out the residents who can least afford to lose them” theconversation.com stated it was “Published:
“When my lot rent goes up, I can’t just leave, it’s not that simple. My home isn’t truly mobile,” [manufactured home community resident Sammi] Silver said. “It costs thousands of dollars to move, and most parks won’t even take a house over five years old.” Multiple times a year there
According to the “popular tool for tracking investment data” fintel.io, Thrivent Financial for Lutherans has a broad portfolio of investments that includes firms that are directly involved in HUD Code manufactured housing. Thrivent has an array of investments in the following sectors, shown as follows in no particular order of
“Policy makers place high hopes in manufactured homes – the largest source of unsubsidized affordable housing in the US – to alleviate housing supply shortages. This paper shows that high market concentration in the multi-billion-dollar manufactured home loan market allows lenders to charge significantly higher interest rates than for site-built
As much of the manufactured home industry’s attention has been on the developing drama of what will happen next with the ROAD to Housing Act 2025, the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) has drawn the industry’s attention to a what they are calling a “Pseudo-Regulatory Monitoring Contractor “Handbook””
