MHMSM.com presents Factory Built Housing Industry News at Noon with Erin Patla. We begin with these stories: Buffets’s advice to youth applies to MH Industry Warren Buffett, owner of Clayton Homes, was on hand at an Iowa Dairy Queen to introduce the new Thin Mint Blizzard and gave a group …
MHMSM.com presents Factory Built Housing Industry News at Noon with Erin Patla. We begin with these stories: REUTERS REPORTS that Warren Buffett will be played by Ed Asner in Too Big to Fail, an upcoming television movie about the financial crisis. Reuters says the movie will be based on a …
MHMSM.com presents Factory Built Housing Industry News at Noon with Erin Patla. We begin with these stories: BANK OF AMERICA announced Friday the company is halting foreclosure sales in all 50 states as part of a widening investigation into flaws in the process. The announcement came two days after JP …
MHMSM.com presents Factory Built Housing Industry News at Noon with Erin Patla. We begin with these stories: THE MORTGAGE BANKERS ASSOCIATION released its Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey Wednesday for the week ending October 1 showing an increase in purchase activity. The seasonally adjusted Purchase Index increased 9.3 percent from one …
MHARR Viewpoint – October 2010
By Danny D. Ghorbani
This is the second of a two-part series designed to explore the difficulties confronting the manufactured housing industry, consider the causes of those difficulties and suggest common-sense solutions to help the industry recover from its steep decline of the past twelve years and expand further to meet the needs of consumers of affordable housing. For purposes of this article, the term “production sector” refers to HUD Code manufactured home producers and product suppliers. The term “post-production sector” refers to HUD Code retailers, communities, developers, installers, finance providers and insurers.
MHMSM.com presents Factory Built Housing Industry News at Noon with Erin Patla. We begin with these stories: TO MOST PEOPLE these days, a trailer is a short preview of a movie. Unfortunately it’s still misused in some media reports where the words manufactured home belongs. The most recent culprit was …
A program now in place in New York promises to begin the replacement of older mobile homes throughout the state. Moreover, a bill currently in Congress would provide incentives to replace older manufactured homes with modern energy-efficient models. Officials in New York say the new program implemented by that state’s …
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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 been signed into law by President Obama. The bill Small Business Administration’s floor plan financing program provides loan guarantees through …
MHMSM.com presents Factory Built Housing Industry News at Noon with Erin Patla. We begin with these stories: RADON REQUIREMENTS are seeping into the manufactured housing industry in Oregon. Despite a HUD Code that some Manufactured Housing Industry pros would contend preempts local requirements on manufactured housing, Oregon is gearing up …
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: 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 …
More than ten years of federal preemption bolstered by the Manufactured Housing Improvement Act (MHIA) of 2000 – and it remains untested as to whether the HUD code preempts local regulations including zoning and aesthetic requirements. MHIA was said to have bolstered the reach of federal preemption and to have …
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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: 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: 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: 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 …
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. Coming up – Could “Granny Flats” Be a Sandwich Generation Solution? But first…these stories: Clayton Home Sales Centers sales up this year South Carolina Now The numbers for Clayton Home Sales Centers (a Berkshire-Hathaway Company) for the first …
GULFPORT, MI, July 13, 2010-Five years after Hurricane Katrina, the most costly in U.S. history, a unique approach to housing known broadly as Katrina Cottages and locally as Mississippi Emergency Management Agency (MEMA) cottages have been tried, tested and battled. The award-winning designs attempt to fulfill the needs of their …
MEMA Cottages Loved and Hated Five Years after Hurricane Katrina Read More
