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Sunday Morning Weekly Recap Manufactured Housing Industry News June 18 to June 25, 2017

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The New June 2017 articles on the MHProNews.com home page are live, with the full line up on display at this link here. If you’ve been super busy, traveling, have been on vacation, or are new to the Daily Business News  on MHProNews, welcome to our weekly recap of the Manufactured Housing Industry’s “News, Tips […]

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City Expanding Affordable Housing

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In a move reflecting a growing trend across the nation, the city of San Bernardino, CA is partnering with Neighborhood Partnership Housing Services “to ensure that persons of all walks of life have opportunities to find suitable and affordable housing in San Bernardino,” according to a report from the city’s

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The Homeless are Finding Benefactors in Many Cities

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As people all across the nation flock to urban areas seeking opportunity that is not so readily available in small towns and rural areas, the price of homes tend to rise along with the value of land. Readers of MHProNews are familiar with our many stories of manufactured and mobile

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Skyline Investor Move$ Spotlight; Other MH Stocks, Broader Markets Mixed

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The evolving Daily Business News market report sets the industry’s stocks in the broader context of the overall market stocks.  By spotlighting the headlines – from both sides of the left-right media divide – this report also helps readers see what are the trends and topics that may be moving

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Senior Staff Shakeup at the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI)?

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Multiple sources tell MHProNews that two “senior staff” members have been “fired” from the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI). Lois Starkey – former Vice President of Regulatory Affairs – with MHI, and Tom Heinemann – previously the Vice President of Federal Government Affairs at MHI – are both gone. Their names have

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Are Americans Hunting for the Single Sectional Manufactured Home Alternative?

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The hands down king of affordable permanent housing in the U. S. is single section (a.k.a. ‘single wide’) manufactured homes. On a cost per square foot basis, they are hard to beat, as U.S. Census Bureau – and other research from sources such as Zillow, or the National Association of

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Competitive Enterprise Institute Grades Trump on Energy, Domestic Policies

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There are certainly voices on both sides of the climate controversy and how that relates to energy policy. To oversimplify is to say that Secretary Hillary Clinton and Jill Stein represented those in the 2016 presidential race that broadly favored continuing along the path that President Obama’s administration had begun.

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Huge Loss to Affordable Housing Stock May Be in Offing

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Similar to re-purposing pressures in urban areas in the United States, our manufactured housing neighbors north of the border are facing redevelopment issues that threaten to uproot them from long-standing manufactured home communities. Vancouver, British Columbia is home to approximately 1,000 manufactured home communities, according to the Manufactured Home Park

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Investor$ Big Move$ – LPX Spotlight; Tricon, LCI lead, NOB, SKY Bleed

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The evolving Daily Business News market report sets the industry’s stocks in the broader context of the overall market stocks.  By spotlighting the headlines – from both sides of the left-right media divide – this report also helps readers see what are the trends and topics that may be moving

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USDA Celebrating National Home Ownership Month

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In response to President Donald J. Trump’s call to proclaim June National Home Ownership month, USDA’s Acting Deputy Undersecretary for Rural Development Roger Glendenning said he celebrates the vital contribution homeowners have made to communities across rural America. “Owning a home provides rural residents a secure environment where they can

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Fearful Residents Ask, “Are There Murderers Living Here?”

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The Chicago Tribune reported earlier this month on a suspicious fire in an Oak Lawn manufactured home community. Two deaths were reported. When law enforcement ruled the matter an alleged case of arson, it made the deaths apparent murders. “Are there murderers here?” – resident Mary Grochola said, per the Tribune, “A

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Modular Housing Scandal? HUD Investigating, Senator McCain Blasts, Wants Reforms

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The AZ Republic has been reporting on a brewing scandal that could make FEMA’s embarrassment over their Louisiana placement of Manufactured Housing Units (MHUs) pale by comparison. The Navajo Housing Authority spent $12 million building 91 new homes, all but one was later demolished. Then, “After failing to spend nearly

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Insider Trades, UMH – Carlyle Surges, Skyline Slips

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The evolving Daily Business News market report sets the industry’s stocks in the broader context of the overall market stocks.  By spotlighting the headlines – from both sides of the left-right media divide – this report also helps readers see what are the trends and topics that may be moving

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‘CFPB Rectal Exam,’ Congressman Stresses Need for Credit & Financial Reform, Manufactured Home Pros React

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“Credit is one of the most powerful devices of the financial system designed over time by modern societies. It gives people the freedom to spend money now – whether to cover a medical expense, an emergency repair, buy a home or send their child to school – and pay it

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Summit Homes, Clayton Subsidiary, Donates to St Jude’s, Skyline JUMP$

By / / Affordable Housing, Business, Economy, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Home Communities, Manufactured Housing Industry, Stocks, Trends

The evolving Daily Business News market report sets the industry’s stocks in the broader context of the overall market stocks.  By spotlighting the headlines – from both sides of the left-right media divide – this report also helps readers see what are the trends and topics that may be moving

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Posh, Massive New Manufactured Home Community Being Developed

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In what developers and the News Journal are billing as a massive and first-in-over-a-decade in Florida, ground work for a senior community is underway at Ormond Beach. The first phase is 427 home sites, part of a total 1,577 planned lots. These are not going to be entry level, ‘shade

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War Talk Worries? How Is It Impacting Markets?

By / / Affordable Housing, Analysis and Commentary, Association, Business, Economy, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Politics, Trends

A longtime mantra inside newsrooms has been, “If it Bleeds, it Leads.” While professionals readily connect with that point with regard to murder or terrorism, that’s also demonstrably true about manufactured housing too, as: tornadoes, hurricanes, dramatic fires, crime or other fatality/injury and ‘drama’ stories prove. But what about the

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ELS’ Sam Zell – Compliance Costs Destroys Smaller Businesses = Consolidation

By / / Affordable Housing, Analysis and Commentary, Manufactured Home Communities, People, Politics, regulation, Stocks

In yet another piece of evidence that heavy regulation harms smaller business at the expense of larger ones, are recent statements by Manufactured Home Communities giant, Equity LifeStyle Properties (ELS) Chairman, Sam Zell. Barrons and Newsmax reported Zell saying that President Donald J. Trump with less than 6 months in

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Why Cavco Bought Lexington Homes, per Joe Stegmayer – CG, AMG, MHCV Up

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The evolving Daily Business News’ market report sets the industry’s stocks in the broader context of the overall market stocks.  By spotlighting the headlines – from both sides of the left-right media divide – this report also helps readers see what are the trends and topics that may be moving

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Consolidation? Not just Manufactured Housing, Look at Banking – Similar Causes?

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While manufactured housing “consolidation” is on the minds of thousands of MH industry professionals, a result of recent Daily Business News reports – or due to this manufactured home industry overview (click here) – it’s happening in other U.S. industry sectors too. Since finance is a routine hot topic among

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