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All Parks Alliance for Change Lobbying Congress opposing Minnesota Community Owners Support for a Floor Vote on the Preserving Access to Manufactured Housing Act (HR1779)

By / June 19, 2023 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

Mark Brunner at the Manufactured and Modular Housing Association of Minnesota (MMHAMN) tells MHProNews that the All Parks Alliance for Change (APAC) is lobbying Congress to oppose The Preserving Access to Manufactured Housing Act (HR 1779). Brunner says APAC has sent out the following call-to-action statement to their members. “House …

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Residential Eyesores to be Renovated with Federal/Local Tax Dollars for Affordable Housing

By / August 22, 2014 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

Clearwater (FL) Housing Authority will begin repairs on two single family houses and a building that will be used for multi-family housing use, that should be ready next year for low-income households. Jacqueline Rivera, the housing authority’s CEO, and Deborah Woodard, chairwoman of the housing authority board, said clean up …

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Affordable Housing Irony – hundreds on WilCo waiting list – near MH Production Centers

By / August 22, 2014 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

“We obviously … have to have more affordable housing,” Nikki Brennan, executive director of the Georgetown Housing Authority, said. “I think [the need is] pretty much all over Williamson County [WilCo]” ImpactNews tells MHProNews that WilCo has some 500 people on the public housing waiting list, and more than 600 …

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“From Moscow, with Love?” Lawsuit advances against Manufactured Home Community Owner

By / August 22, 2014 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

Residents of Syringa Mobile Home Park near Moscow-Pullman, Idaho have been in a struggle that bubbled up over their need for drinkable water and other issues. This began last winter, and resident Doris Carlson told KREM News that “I have wept an awful lot because I am tired of living …

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CFPB: What’s the difference between being pre-qualified and pre-approved for a loan?

By / August 22, 2014 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

Amy Tierce, writing in the NationalMortgageNews, tells MHProNews that the CFPB’s website gives an answer to the question, What’s the Difference between being pre-qualified and pre-approved for a mortgage? but that the CFPB’s answer is not, Tierce says, “the full story.” Some lenders have decided, she says, to “not issue pre-approval letters due …

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Louisville Show is Approaching a Sell-Out

By / July 28, 2014 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

There are almost 6 months to go before the start of the 2015 Louisville Manufactured Housing Show, and booth space and manufacturers exhibit space is approaching a sell out.  MHProNews has learned there will be 2 new factory builders planning for the 2015 event, and apparently all the current manufactured …

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NBC News Today Show report shows Manufactured Home did as well as Conventional On-site Construction in hurricane high winds test

By / July 23, 2014 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

“Regarding this previous portion of the test, IBHS indicated: “When one of these high wind-rated HUD-Code homes is installed on a permanent foundation, in most of the country, it would end up resisting wind storms better than surrounding site-built homes.” So stated a MHI President and CEO, Richard “Dick” Jennison …

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The Tunica Manufactured Housing Show Will Go On!

By / June 26, 2014 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

Questions have been coming in about the status of the 2015 Tunica Show, given Harrah’s closure of the site where the manufactured housing show has been held for the past 17 years. Dennis Hill at Show Ways Unlimited, the trade show’s coordinator, has told us that alternative options are in …

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Tim Williams, 21st Mortgage, elected Vice-Chair during Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) Summer Meeting

By / June 11, 2014 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

The 2014 Summer Meeting for the  Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) concluded yesterday with Tim Williams, CEO of 21st Mortgage, was elected as Vice-Chair of the industry’s largest national trade association.  Williams, a respected industry icon, was unopposed. 97 industry leaders, plus MHI staff, friends and family attended the June 8-10 event …

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HUD’s Pam Danner shines at elegant Alexander Hotel in Indianapolis amid Optimistic 2014 Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) Summer Meeting

By / June 11, 2014 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

97 industry leaders – plus staff, friends and family – came to the Alexander Hotel in Indianapolis, IN June 8-10 for the 2014 Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) Summer Meeting. The new manufactured home program director at HUD, Pam Danner, was featured on the final day, in addition to her participating …

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Rain and Clouds Don’t Dampen Ohio Manufactured Home Show’s Strong Public Attendance

By / May 19, 2014 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

Cool, cloudy and rainy weather failed to dampen the solid turnout of the public who came by the thousands to see modern manufactured and modular homes on display during the Eastern Ohio Home Show. Tim Williams, executive director for the Ohio Manufactured Homes Association, provided MHProNews with these officials totals: …

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George Allen Fact Check: 6 Errors/Contradictions in one section alone (290/1)?

By / April 1, 2014 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

The Washington Post famously hands out “Pinocchios” for false or misleading statements made by public officials they fact check, including notables such as U.S. President Barack Obama, Russian President Vladimir Putin and other foreign or domestic public figures. Since the MHIndustry’s George F. Allen boldly proclaims himself weekly to be …

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Even with Thunderstorms, Tunica Pre-Show Estimates Exceeded

By / March 30, 2014 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

While weather and other factors kept some potential attendees away, preliminary figures from Show Ways Unlimited and the registration company indicted that a total of 2195 professionals attended the 2014 Tunica Manufactured Housing Show.  Pre-Show estimates on total professionals expected at this year’s event were for 2100 total. The timing …

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Free Manufactured Housing Finance, Business Seminars and Forecast

By / March 24, 2014 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

Some 2100 +/- manufactured housing industry professionals from all segments of the industry are expected at the 2014 Tunica Manufactured Housing Show. Registrations have come in from states coast to coast. The Tunica Show features more homes and exhibitors than any other industry trade show in North America. Networking and …

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MHARR, MHI and GSE Reform, Background to Danny Ghorbani’s release and George Allen’s Planned “Story”

By / March 18, 2014 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

On Sunday, March 16 at 4:47 PM ET, a news release was received from the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) on the topic of the highly-charged issue of a Government Sponsored Enterprise (GSE, “Fannie and Freddie”) reform plan. Some 3 Hours and 43 minutes later, at 8:30 PM on the same …

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Danny Ghorbani, George Allen, Michael Power, et al: False, Misleading Statements and Tortuous Interference?

By / March 11, 2014 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

Sources have told MHProNews that Danny Ghorbani, President and CEO of the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) has once more allegedly made threatening statements directed at our publisher, as Ghorbani’s response to articles and commentaries published that analyze Ghorbani’s written/public statements. Why? “Our industry needs financing and is …

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S 1828 Co-Sponsors grow in wake of MHI Legislative Session

By / February 14, 2014 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

Sources with ties to Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) tell MHProNews that the number of sponsors and co-sponsors for S 1828 has jumped from 4 to 9 as a direct result of the recent visits by members to their U.S. Senators. Dan Coates (R-IN), Rand Paul (R-KY), Lamar Alexander (R-TN), Joe …

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MHARR’s HUD/MHI Missive: on the record, “No Comment,” but off the record…

By / February 1, 2014 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

MHARR’s president “broadsided” HUD – as well as MHI – on Thursday, January 29th with an emailed release. The timing seemed odd, observers told MHProNews, as this took place in the immediate aftermath of an extraordinary semiannual oversight hearing on Capitol Hill. Chairman Jeb Hensarling’s Financial Services Committee had members …

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