Modular Home Production Rises
The Manufactured Housing Institute reports modular home production rose in the second quarter 2012 5.6 percent over Q2 2011. For the first six months of 2012 over 2011 the increase was 9.3 percent. A...
View ArticleFEMA Homes Coming to NY and NJ
The Washington Post reports that the federal government is moving manufactured homes into the New York and New Jersey areas hit hardest by Hurricane Sandy, according to the Federal Emergency Management...
View ArticleIn Light of Hurricane Sandy…
During the last five years New York City’s Bloomberg Administration has been developing a plan to make temporary housing quarters out of 40 foot shipping containers with a door and window at each end,...
View ArticleFederal Emergency Management Agency Seeking Emergency Housing
The Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) informs MHProNews the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)’s “Industry Days” to chart a course for the construction and...
View ArticleSchool District wants Manufactured Housing for Teachers
According to mywesttexas, as housing tightens in Midland, Texas, teachers for the Midland Independent School District (MISD) are finding housing they can afford scarce. The school administration and...
View ArticleSchool District may Lease Homesites in Manufactured Housing Community
Updating a story MHProNews posted June 12, 2013 regarding manufactured homes for teachers in housing-strapped Midland, Tex., the Midland Independent School District (MISD) trustees authorized up to...
View ArticleModular Homes to West, Tex? The City Hopes
Bringing modular homes into West, Tex. to people displaced by the April 17, 2013 explosion will cost $10,000 each, which does not include hooking up to utilities. The forty units, as MHProNews reported...
View ArticleTemporary Modular Housing being Restricted in Bakken Oilfield
The Williams County Commission in Williston, North Dakota voted to adopt new guidelines putting restrictions on new or renewed applications for temporary housing as of August 1, 2015, as...
View ArticleOfficials in Alberta’s Fire-whipped Fort McMurray Considering Modular Homes
Following a story MHProNews last posted May 5, 2016 regarding the wildfires that have engulfed Fort McMurray in Alberta, Canada, forcing the evacuation of 90,000 residents and destroying ten percent of...
View ArticleFormer MH Community Property will Host Modular Homes for Homeless
The one-time site of a manufactured home community in Caversham, United Kingdom will soon see 28 modular homes for homeless families, as MHProNews has learned from getreading.co.uk. The goal of the...
View ArticleLance Kennedy of North Dakota MHA Speaks Out
In an op-ed piece in the Minot Daily News in Minot, North Dakota, Lance Kennedy, president of the North Dakota Manufactured Housing Association, says eight manufactured home communities, representing...
View ArticleFEMA Chief Returns to Joplin
JoplinGlobe reports Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Chief William Fugate returned to Joplin for the first time since the five days he spent following the EF-5 twister that leveled a central...
View ArticleModular Cubes: New Disaster Relief Housing?
GizMag reports on a new Italian modular home concept with modules that easily hook together to provide housing for virtually an endless number of people, especially useful during disaster relief....
View ArticlePolymer Modular Unit: New Temporary Shelter?
A new German design for temporary housing utilizes leaf-like panels made of fiber-reinforced polymer that fit together to create a self-supporting modular dome. Inhabitat tells MHProNews.com the panels...
View ArticleModular City to Bloom in Canada
Just north of eastern Montana and north of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, a modular town of 2,500 residents will emerge to provide workforce housing to build BHP Billiton’s Jansen potash mine, near the...
View ArticleMaking FEMA Homes Suitable for ADA
Lois Starkey, Vice President of Regulatory Affairs at the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI), says the Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board (Access Board) is proposing to amend...
View ArticleDebby Damages MHC in Florida
TBO reports Tropical Storm Debby swept through Suncoast Gateway Mobile Village in Port Richey, Florida, damaging the underside, insulation, under support, and air conditioning units of many of the...
View ArticleOhio Preparing for Influx of Workers
As energy workers are lured to eastern Ohio to take advantage of the jobs becoming available in the oil and gas fields of the Utica Shale formation, RVBusiness says the Ohio Environmental Protection...
View ArticleUFPI Releases Financials for Second Quarter
Yahoo! Finance says Universal Forest Products, Inc. (UFPI) released the following statement of earnings as a percentage of net sales, comparing Q2 2011 to Q2 2012: The company reports gross profit of...
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