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MHMSM.com presents Factory Built Housing Industry News at Noon with Erin Patla. DID YOU KNOW that MHMSM’s News at Noon is available on iTunes? To access, simply start iTunes, type MHMSM into the search box and the Podcast list will appear. Now we begin with these stories: MHI REPORTS that […]

MHMSM.com presents Factory Built Housing Industry News at Noon with Erin Patla. DID YOU KNOW that MHMSM’s News at Noon is available on iTunes? To access, simply start iTunes, type MHMSM into the search box and the Podcast list will appear. Now we begin with these stories: MHI REPORTS that

MHMSM.com presents Factory Built Housing Industry News at Noon with Erin Patla. We begin with these stories: SEVERAL STATE ASSOCIATIONS have launched an exploratory effort to look into whether the industry could benefit from additional lobbying help in Washington. A high-profile lobbyist could both help provide a unified voice and

MHMSM.com presents Factory Built Housing Industry News at Noon with Erin Patla. We begin with these stories: THE COMMERCE DEPARTMENT’S U.S. Census Bureau released data Tuesday on new residential construction in July 2010.  Permits for new housing units declined 3.1 percent in July.  An Associated Press article noted that was

MHMSM.com presents Factory Built Housing Industry News at Noon with Erin Patla. We begin with these stories: GLOOM ABOUNDS in the national housing market, but the Christian Science Monitor recently featured profiles of six cities in a housing bloom of sorts. They include Decatur [deh-KAY-tur], Illinois, where employment is starting

MHMSM.com presents Factory Built Housing Industry News at Noon with Erin Patla. We begin with these stories: A REPORT ON BLOOMBERG.COM Monday noted that while housing has led the U.S. out of seven of the past eight recessions, this time it could lead it back into recession. “If foreclosures continue

MHMSM.com presents Factory Built Housing Industry News at Noon with Erin Patla. We begin with these stories: THE AGE OF THE McMANSION is apparently over. Some towns have passed ordinances against the lot-engulfing giants, but the end may have come from within as a result of changing consumer preferences and

MHMSM.com presents Factory Built Housing Industry News at Noon with Erin Patla. We begin with these stories: ESTIMATES SAY there are some two million manufactured homes in the United States built before June 1976. The homes are both inefficient, and in some cases unsafe. Replacing them is the aim of

MHMSM.com presents Factory Built Housing Industry News at Noon with Erin Patla. We begin with these stories: IN WHAT THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF HOME BUILDERS (NAHB) is calling a major victory for affordable housing, sound science and more sensible regulations, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has been forced to withdraw

MHMSM.com presents Factory Built Housing Industry News at Noon with Erin Patla. We begin with these stories: BANKING EXECUTIVES WERE IN WASHINGTON Tuesday to weigh in on the future of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Reports indicated the group overwhelmingly advocated the government should maintain a large role propping up

MHMSM.com presents Factory Built Housing Industry News at Noon with Erin Patla. We begin with these stories: BUILDER CONFIDENCE in the market for newly built, single-family homes edged down for a third consecutive month in August, according to the latest National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI),

MHMSM.com presents Factory Built Housing Industry News at Noon with Erin Patla. We begin with these stories: IF YOU’RE LOOKING for chattel financing from the FHA, you may be out of luck, but that hasn’t stopped the agency from entering the luxury condo market in Manhattan. Bloomberg ran a story

MHMSM.com presents Factory Built Housing Industry News at Noon with Erin Patla. We begin with these stories: FROM THE PRESS DEMOCRAT in Santa Rosa, California we find manufactured home park residents fighting the planned sale of the park they call home. Resident Roger McConnell and about 100 of his neighbors

MHMSM.com presents Factory Built Housing Industry News at Noon with Erin Patla. We begin with these stories: ___________________________________________________________________________ TUESDAY THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION announced additional support to help homeowners struggling with unemployment through two targeted foreclosure-prevention programs. Through the existing Housing Finance Agency (HFA) Innovation Fund for the Hardest Hit Housing

MHMSM.com presents Factory Built Housing Industry News at Noon with Erin Patla. Coming up – Manufactured Home Sales Rise We begin with these stories: IF YOU’RE CONCERNED your carbon footprint is too big, Clayton Homes has an answer. Popular Mechanics recently ran a feature on Clayton homes I-House. I-House is

MHMSM.com presents Factory Built Housing Industry News at Noon with Erin Patla We begin with these stories: AN ALABAMA ARCHITECT hopes to win a quarter-million dollars from the “Pepsi Do Good for the Gulf Project” to help property owners rebuild an Orange Beach condominium complex destroyed by Hurricane Ivan, reports

MHMSM.com presents Factory Built Housing Industry News at Noon with Erin Patla. Coming up – The annual growth rates in 15 of the 20 MSAs and the 10- and 20-City Composites improved in May compared to those reported for April 2010 But first…these stories: The Knoxville News reports that Clayton

MHMSM.com presents Factory Built Housing Industry News at Noon with Erin Patla. Coming up – High School students’ green house may be golden But first…these stories: IMHA Replies to Charges against Colorado Community Owner The Register has recently published numerous articles and editorials on conditions in Iowa mobile home rental