Modular Apartments Approved in PA
A site plan has been approved by the Waverly Village planning board in northeastern Pennsylvania for six two-family modular apartments, TheDailyReview tells MHProNews.com. When board members raised...
View ArticleRecent Tornadoes Put Spotlight on Mobile Homes
A slew of news stories appeared over the weekend over those killed in recent tornadoes. While the majority of those killed were in what the articles call mobile homes, the distinction is not always...
View ArticleModular Builder may enter Oil Boom Fray
Prairiebizmag reports Red Lake Falls, Minnesota based Homark Homes is building two dormitory-style man camps for a Goldcorp, Inc. gold mine near Musselwhite, Ontario, Canada. Built to house 76 workers,...
View ArticleNew Restrictions on Manufactured Housing
Commissioners in Mooresville, North Carolina, just north of Charlotte, seeking to reduce the number of “non-conforming” manufactured homes in town, passed an ordinance preventing the replacement siting...
View ArticleAbandoned MHC to be Cleared Up
WSBTV reports residents of Tara Mobile Home Park in Jonesboro, GA just south of Atlanta have endured the abandonment of neighboring Maria Mobile Homes community and the subsequent collection of dumped...
View ArticleAMHA Inducts Hall-of-Famers
Sherman Price and his brother, the late Leon Price, Sr., were honored for outstanding service and dedication to the state’s factory built housing industry, and inducted into the Arkansas Manufactured...
View ArticleAMHA Chooses Leadership
MHProNews has been notified the Arkansas Manufactured Housing Association (AMHA) has announced elected officers and directors for 2013-2014 at their recent 41st annual convention in Little Rock. The...
View ArticleWhen is an MH not an MH?
The fortmorgantimes in northeast Colorado tells MHProNews building permits for single-family homes rose 50 percent to 18 from 2011 to 2012 in Morgan County, with an average price of $244,890 each. The...
View ArticleMake Stick the Niche
As modularhomecoach tells MHProNews, in blasting the lack of positive PR for the modular housing industry, the blog says neither the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) nor the Modular...
View ArticleSite Approved for MHC Development
The Memphis-Shelby County Office of Planning and Development (OPD) has recommended approval of the former Memphis Mobile City that flooded in 2010 and 2011 becoming an RV resort with over 100 sites, as...
View ArticleAmendment would Change Definition of Affordable Housing
Massachusetts’ controversial Chapter 40B provision allows developers to build housing complexes that do not conform to local zoning ordinances if the town does not have ten percent affordable housing...
View ArticleAdkins Blasts Media for Anti-Manufactured Home Bias
In an editorial, MH aficionado Crystal Adkins said that in her opinion, journalists are a significant part of the image problem manufactured home owners and professionals face daily. “There are so many...
View ArticleSubdivision Residents Object to Manufactured Home
Homeowners in a subdivision north of Madison, Wisconsin have asked the Newport Town Board to initiate action to have a multi-section manufactured home removed from their subdivision. According to...
View ArticleDrawn Quarters, Manufactured Housing Then and Now
An article written by Allan Wallis about manufactured housing in 1984 continues to be relevant today, although the definitions in Drawn Quarters do not always resonate with governmental and regulatory...
View ArticleNimby Leading Loss of Affordable Housing? County buys MHC to close it
De Kalb County, Illinois purchased to close “flood prone” Evergreen Village Mobile Home Park in Sycamore, the Daily Chronicle tells MHProNews. “I don’t have much of a choice, because we’re in a flood...
View ArticleCanadians Mini-Dwellings – Video Report – on north-of-the-border Tiny House...
Global News tells MHProNews how her tiny house has changed Lydia Holden’s way of life. With just a little over 100 square feet to live in, the 24 year-old has found an affordable way to become a...
View ArticleNon-Profit Mammoth Receives $1 Million Grant
Mammoth Lakes Housing (MLH) has just received a grant from the California Department of Housing to assist with mortgage and the rehabilitation of manufactured housing. The private non-for-profit...
View ArticleNew Rules for Gas Furnaces from Department of Energy
The Department of Energy is considering new efficiency rules, download linked here, for residential non-weatherized gas furnaces and “mobile home” gas furnaces. The Energy Department’s Office of Energy...
View ArticleThe Federal Register publishes rules for Power cords, airplanes, credit...
The Hill tells MHProNews that the Tuesday November 4th edition of the Federal Register contains “new rules for computer power cords, airplanes flying in icy conditions, mobile home construction...
View ArticleMHI touts National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) update report, show...
The Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) tells MHProNews that the recently updated National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) report reveals good news for manufactured housing, and should give more...
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