Hometownlife.com reports that officials in Highland, Michigan are relaxing requirements for a manufactured home community that had prohibited the owners from bringing in used homes to sell to residents. A plea by the owners of the Ridgewood Manufactured Home Community lead to a vote to alter a 1997 consent judgment […]
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From Minnesota the West Central Tribune reports that orders to repair and improve manufactured homes — or demolish those not meeting safety and building codes — will be presented to the owners of multiple homes in the Northdale Community in Montevideo. City Council members there approved resolutions directing the improvements after
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From Delaware the Cape Gazette reports two proposed Sussex County ordinance amendments relating to manufactured housing wouldn’t completely solve problems in older communities. Councilman George Cole, R-Ocean View, told officials there he wanted a list of further recommendations before making a motion to schedule more committee meetings and wants the
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Joe Kelly at the Iowa Manufactured Housing Association sent along a report from the Des Moines Register that indicated a third of manufactured homes have unpaid taxes in Polk County. According to the report from County Treasurer Mary Maloney, one-third of the 4,087 manufactured homes in that county have unpaid
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Attached (Download Here), for your information and review, is a copy of a self-explanatory letter sent today to HUD Assistant Secretary David H. Stevens regarding a mass auction of FEMA-owned manufactured homes that were originally purchased as temporary emergency housing for hurricane-damaged areas of the Gulf Coast.
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For Questions on Statistics & Data: Thayer Long, tlong@mfghome.org Arlington, VA, October 19, 2009 — The Manufactured Housing Institute’s actual shipments report indicates that 4,472 new HUD-Code homes were shipped in August 2009, down 39.3 percent from August 2008. Shipments of single-section homes were down 37.5 percent, year over year,
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