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MHMSM.com presents Factory Built Housing Industry News at Noon with Erin Patla. We begin with these stories: THE SMALL BUSINESS JOBS ACT that passed the Senate a week ago has now been passed by the House and heads to the Oval Office for the President’s signature. Among other provisions, the […]

MHMSM.com presents Factory Built Housing Industry News at Noon with Erin Patla. We begin with these stories: THE SANTA MONICA DAILY PRESS reports that Santa Monica officials have found a solution to the City Council’s Arizona boycott dilemma. After passing a ban over that state’s controversial illegal immigration policy, the

MHMSM.com presents Factory Built Housing Industry News at Noon with Erin Patla. We begin with these stories: EVER NOTICE that reports of crime don’t often mention the construction method of where the event occurred, unless it happened in a “mobile home?” Just this week, a half dozen or so stories

MHMSM.com presents Factory Built Housing Industry News at Noon with Erin Patla. We begin with these stories: THE NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH decided today that the Great Recession ended in June of 2009. That reassurance only goes so far. The National Association of Homebuilders (NAHB) reported that builder confidence

MHMSM.com presents Factory Built Housing Industry News at Noon with Erin Patla. We begin with these stories: ACCORDING TO THE MHI Week in Review, on September 15, the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance and Government Sponsored Enterprises held a hearing on the future of housing finance and

MHMSM.com presents Factory Built Housing Industry News at Noon with Erin Patla. We begin with these stories: NEW YORK GOVERNOR David A. Paterson recently announced 23 awards totaling more than $6 million to not-for-profit housing agencies and local governments in the Capital Region and Hudson Valley that will help to

MHMSM.com presents Factory Built Housing Industry News at Noon with Erin Patla. We begin with these stories: AN EXTENSION to the SBA floor plan lending program is included as part of the Small Business Jobs Act, HR 5297 that passed a key vote in the Senate this week. Elizabeth Shappell

MHMSM.com presents Factory Built Housing Industry News at Noon with Erin Patla. We begin with these stories: THE SENATE VOTED TUESDAY by a 61-to-37 margin to move the $42 billion Small Business Jobs Act forward, which means back to the House of Representatives for approval before it reaches President Obama’s

MHMSM.com presents Factory Built Housing Industry News at Noon with Erin Patla. We begin with these stories: IN AN EFFORT TO INFORM the current discussion on the future of the housing finance system, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) released data on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Monday that compare

MHMSM.com presents Factory Built Housing Industry News at Noon with Erin Patla. We begin with these stories: MORE CALLS came late this week to eliminate Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Led by Texas Rep. Jeb Hensarling of Dallas, House Republicans say they’re eager to curb government’s involvement in the housing

MHMSM.com presents Factory Built Housing Industry News at Noon with Erin Patla. We begin with these stories: ABOUT HALF OF AMERICANS who claimed the tax credit on their 2009 tax returns will have to return the money. According to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA), the Housing and

MHMSM.com presents Factory Built Housing Industry News at Noon with Erin Patla. We begin with these stories: INVESTORS BUSINESS DAILY reports that a practice being referred to as “flopping” is the latest real estate scam. A play on the practice of “flipping,” or cosmetically upgrading a home and selling at

MHMSM.com presents Factory Built Housing Industry News at Noon with Erin Patla. We begin with these stories: SMALL BUSINESSES are the “primary drivers of job creation,” and aid in the form of legislation should be the first order of business for Congress when it reconvenes next month, according to President

MHMSM.com presents Factory Built Housing Industry News at Noon with Erin Patla. We begin with these stories: SEPTEMBER IS THE FINAL MONTH for the SBA’s Floorplan Financing Program unless Congress acts to renew it. In order to extend the program, a bill currently under consideration, the Dealer Floor Plan Program

MHMSM.com presents Factory Built Housing Industry News at Noon with Erin Patla. We begin with these stories: THERE IS NO SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE between the rates of crime in manufactured home communities relative to other residential areas, so concluded William P. McCarty, assistant professor in the Department of Criminology, Law and

MHMSM.com presents Factory Built Housing Industry News at Noon with Erin Patla. We begin with these stories: HURRICANE EARL is heading north and threatening communities from North Carolina to Maryland. Manufactured home owners can be reassured, however, that their homes can withstand the event as well as site-built homes, if

MHMSM.com presents Factory Built Housing Industry News at Noon with Erin Patla. We begin with these stories: PRESIDENT OBAMA Monday urged Congress to “rise above the politics of the moment” and pass the jobs bill that is currently stalled in the Senate as soon as members return from their recess