manufactured homes

Another NC County Funded to Demolish Abandoned Manufactured Homes

By / / Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes

Following an article MHProNews posted May 27, 2015 concerning a grant the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) awarded Alamance County to demolish abandoned manufactured homes (MH), nearby Rockingham County has been awarded $26,500 to discard abandoned single-section MH. As myfox8 reports, Rockingham County Code Enforcement Officer […]

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Boulder Considers Ways to Protect Land Lease Communities

By / / Business, Communities, Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes

In and around Boulder, Colorado are eight manufactured home communities (MHC), with a total of just under 1,600 homes, most of which were built before the federal building standards took effect in June, 1976, as dailycamera reports. Recognizing the importance of the communities as affordable housing in a city not

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New Jersey Citizen suggests Manufactured Homes for Hurricane Sandy Survivors

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In a letter to the editor of Asbury Park Press in New Jersey, Joan Finn, noting the loss of housing for 55,000 Ocean County residents due to Hurricane Sandy, many of whom were low-income renters who did not receive rebuild assistance, she asks where did they go. She says over

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CDBG Funding will Repair, Replace Manufactured Homes

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Seeking to assist low-to-moderate-income residents, St. Lawrence County, New York will hold a public hearing in Canton to inform people about the $850,000 Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) for which the county is applying to rehabilitate and replace some homes, including manufactured homes. “Almost 50 percent of the households in

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Manufactured Home Subdivision in Canada Receives Cold Reception

By / / Business, Canada, Communities, Company News, home buyers, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes

An attempt to site 120 manufactured homes (MH) on a 22-ace plot of land in Taylor, British Columbia, Canada has run into opposition from the District of Taylor Council. Jennifer Hillmer, business development manager for Jandel Homes, said the MH would be on the lower end, filling the need for

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MHRE Arranges Sale of Three Manufactured Home Community Package

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MHProNews has learned Michigan-based MHRE, which specializes in the marketing of manufactured home and recreational vehicle communities across the country, has orchestrated the sale of a three property, all age manufactured home community portfolio comprised of 921 home sites, all in Michigan. The sale includes community owned manufactured homes and

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Rezoning Request Denied for Manufactured Home Retailer

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The Ford County Commission in Dodge City, Kansas denied Rosario N. Acosta-Aponte’s request to rezone residential land on Highway 50 to commercial for selling manufactured homes. He wanted to display five homes built in 2000 or later and would not take trade-ins, as dodgeglobe tells MHProNews. Zoning Administrator Mark Shriwise

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Alaska Program offers Subsidized Manufactured Homes to Low-Income Renters

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MHProNews has learned from ktuu-tv that the housing market in Anchorage, Alaska is very tight, with 40 percent of all renters in the Mat Su Valley earning $40,000 a year or less. In response, Weidner Property Management has sited over 200 new manufactured homes in a rental complex. The Alaska

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HUD Code Home Production Continues its Upward Trajectory

By / / Business, Economy, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes

The Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) tells MHProNews that statistics released by the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) reveal that HUD Code production in July rose to 6,085 homes, 7.2 percent over the 5,675 HUD Code homes manufactured in July, 2014. Total HUD Code

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Manufactured Home Community Residents Get Help from City, Fellow Citizens

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Following a story MHProNews last published June 4, 2015 regarding the impending closing and planned relocation of residents of Wheel Inn Ranch RV and Mobile Home Park in Scottsdale, Arizona, the city’s Human Services Department will help residents, many of whom are elderly and/or disabled, in their transition. While MHP

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Manufactured Home Retailer began in 1955

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Twin Town Homes was incorporated in Maine 60 years ago and Bob Huatori has been there for 50 of those years, starting as a lot boy when he was 20, becoming president 25 years ago, and inheriting the business in 2006 when the son of the founder, Hayward Luck, passed

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Manufactured Home Communities Wiped Out Forever by Raging River

By / / Communities, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes

Of the forty-three manufactured homes in the Foothills and Riverbend Mobile Home Parks that were devastated in Lyons, Colorado by eight days of torrential rain and subsequent flooding, none have been replaced, dailycamera tells MHProNews. In fact, there is nothing to indicate that the disaster did not happen last week

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Federal Housing Discrimination Suit Filed against Pearl, Mississippi

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Following a story MHProNews posted Aug. 27, 2015 regarding a judge’s ruling that the city of Pearl, Mississippi was illegally trying to eradicate manufactured home communities (MHCs) through attrition, three owners of Pearl MHCs have filed a Federal lawsuit charging the city with “purposeful discrimination” against low-and-middle-income housing, according to

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Wildwood Manufactured Home Community Sponsors House Walk

By / / Advocacy, Communities, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes

The Wildwood Home Owner’s Association in Sandwich, Illinois is sponsoring its third annual House Walk, Sept. 12, to acquaint visitors with the positive features of manufactured homes (MH) and living in a manufactured home community. As kendallcountynow informs MHProNews, six residents are opening their homes to help attendees understand the

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Oregon Assists First-time Homebuyers with Low Rates

By / / Advocacy, Finance, home buyers, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes

MHProNews has learned from ktvz that Oregon offers first-time homebuyers the opportunity to purchase a home at below-market interest rates, according to Oregon Housing and Community Services (OHCS), including manufactured homes (MH). Using the proceeds from tax exempt revenue bonds, the Oregon Bond Loan program has two options: the first

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Modular Building Raising the Roof One Floor; MH Related Bills that were Checked

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The Texas Manufactured Housing Association (TMHA) informs MHProNews that both houses of the legislature voted to allow modular buildings and housing to be built four stories high, or 60 feet. Several of TMHA’s members expressed an interest in building modular hotels, multi-family and assisted living facilities in order to compete

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Bill in North Carolina Legislature would Alter Manufactured Home Sale Terms

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According to ncconsumer, a bill in the North Carolina House Judiciary IV Committee would no longer require manufactured home dealers to return all payments made on a purchase if the dealer changes the terms of a signed contract. As MHProNews understands, the dealer would only be liable for the initial

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Survey of Manufactured Home Professionals

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MHProNews is conducting a survey of MH industry professionals to get your opinion of how current rulings, media portrayals of manufactured homes and communities, good and bad, affect sales, and how active do you think MH pros are in addressing political issues. Survey results received to date indicate a low

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Manufactured Home Code Enforcement in City Hands

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Following a story MHProNews last posted on Feb. 24, 2015 regarding the closing of the Life O’Riley manufactured home community the previous year, and subsequent forced evacuation of all the residents in ten days because of unsanitary conditions, code enforcement has been moved back from the state to the city.

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Judge Rules Manufactured Home Community’s Right to Replace Homes

By / / Business, Communities, Company News, Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, mobile home, regulation

Updating a story MHProNews published Jan. 16, 2015 regarding the city of Pearl, Mississippi’s attempt to prevent a manufactured home community (MHC) from refilling vacated sites with manufactured homes (MH), Madison-Rankin Circuit Judge John H. Emfinger ruled the city does not have that authority, saying the ordinance would destroy the

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