As December rolls on, a new set of featured articles are found on the MHProNews.com home page. Our theme for this month is: DAAD = Dramatic! Advent! Adventure! December 2016! To see the line-up of over 3-dozen featured articles for this month, along with the headline commentary, please click the link …
While millennials continue to make their way into the workforce, barely any of them have chosen construction as an option. For some, this is not a surprise. According to a recent poll conducted by the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB), 76 percent of builders indicated cost and availability of labor as …
Looking for Millennials? You Likely Won’t Find Them in the Home Building Sector Read More
For Trentham, New Zealand-based Matrix Homes, they believe the answer is yes. According to Voxy, Matrix Homes is about to enter the high-rise market offering steel frame modular construction for hotels and apartment buildings. This follows the signing of an agreement to partner with Alto Australia, a company with 30 …
The Boulder City, Nevada City Council has unanimously approved the request of developer Randy Schams to rezone 7.33 acres of land he owns in the city to a multi-home residential area. A number of regular Daily Business News readers may recognize Schams’ name, as part of our coverage on the Boulder City …
City Council Approves Rezoning of Manufactured Home Community Read More
The potential for economic growth usually brings the promise of a windfall for many, including landowners. With that growth, potential challenges can also appear. In Kitimat, British Columbia (B.C.), the potential for future pipelines, liquefied natural gas (LNG) plants and the Rio Tinto Alcan smelter brings with it the promise …
Potential Economic Boom Presents Affordable Housing Challenges Read More
Directors with the Sunshine Coast Regional Districts’ (SCRD) planning and community development committee in British Columbia, Canada addressed a referral from the District of Sechelt earlier this month, regarding an expansion proposal from the owners of the Big Maples manufactured home community. According to the Coast Reporter, Big Maples will …
Manufactured Homes Expansion Welcomed as Affordable Housing Option Read More
Vancouver mayor Gregor Robertson believes that a shipping container prefabs parked on the south side of the Vancouver Art Gallery holds the key to his city’s homeless and affordable housing crisis. Inside of the shipping container housing unit is a display model of a single suite that will be in …
Big Bet to Battle Homeless and Housing Crisis: Modular Homes Read More
In South Carolina, City of Greenwood officials have decided to put a halt to the construction of manufactured homes in a section of the city being targeted for major neighborhood revitalization. City/County planner Phil Lindler cited lack of interest as the reason for the zoning change. The Greenwood City Council …
Residents in the northeast district of Hutchinson, Kansas have raised objections to a city council vote approving the seeking of a grant for the development of 16 moderate income apartments in the Hampton East area. According to the Hutchinson News, council member Jade Piros de Carvalho, who represents the northeast …
A recent article in the Seattle Times by Al Levine, former Deputy Executive Director of the Seattle Housing Authority, puts the spotlight on steel modular housing as a practical answer to help solve the challenge of housing the homeless. “I find it hard to comprehend that we can’t do a …
Cities Housing the Homeless – are Modular Homes an Answer? Read More
Noteworthy headlines on CNNMoney – FUBU CEO Stop and Frisked “Maybe 20 Times. U.S.: Wells Fargo Mistreated Military Members. WSJ Columnist Calls Trump “Unstable.” Why The Federal Reserve Isn’t Political. From WSJ: Ghost of Lehman Brothers Haunts Deutsche Bank. Some bullets from MarketWatch – ‘Housing party’ in the U.S. may be coming …
Home prices in the Vancouver, British Columbia (B.C.) metro are expensive. The average price for a detached home in the Fraser Valley, for example, is $900,000. A typical condominium can set you back $248,000. Compare that to the typical manufactured home in B.C., which sells for around $80,000. According to …
“No one should be forced to carry on a business that they want to close,” said Pacific Legal Foundation Attorney Larry Salzman. “The city is treating the Jissers as an ATM to solve a problem they didn’t cause — the lack of affordable housing in Palo Alto. That’s not just wrong, it’s …
The opposition has been steady, and at times, with intense emotions on the side of those who wanted to ‘just say no’ to the redevelopment of a city park into a new, affordable, manufactured home development. “To me, Ellis Granley Park was a huge, big space that had a lot …
Northern NIMBY? Controversy, but New Manufactured Home Development Gets OK’d Read More
