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NIMBY strikes as council nixes manufactured housing use requested by over 100...

During their Aug. 18 meeting, the Georgetown, SC city council members denied a request to rezone the West End to permit the addition of manufactured homes on more than 200 vacant lots. A petition...

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Official wants Mandated Amenities for MH Communities

Communities in and around Austin, TX have been a hotbed for discussions about affordablity and manufactured housing over the last few months. According to KUT, Austin City Council member Pio Renteria...

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Austin City Councilman Proposes Mandated Amenities for MH Communities

Austin City Councilman Pio Renteria has proposed a new ordinance for manufactured home communities in Austin, after a visit to one last week. “When I went down there I said, ‘my goodness, there’s no...

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Ordinance Preventing Section 8 Discrimination Passes

The Renton, Washington city council passed an emergency ordinance last night that prohibits property owners and managers from discriminating against current or potential tenants based on their...

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City Considers Modular Home Restrictions

The DeRidder, Louisiana City Council introduced proposed ordinances that will determine where residents can place modular housing, and under what conditions, during a meeting on November 14th. One of...

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City Council Tables Manufactured Home Ordinance, Industry Pro Speaks Out

The Stuttgart, Arkansas City Council voted to table Ordinance 1943 during a December 6th meeting. While the feeling is that more clarity is needed, the stakes could be incredibly high. The Stuttgart...

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City Weighs Repair Assistance Options for MH Community Residents

Residents of a San Leandro, California manufactured home community are facing rent increases next month, but they may get assistance from city leaders through a proposed minor home repair program....

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City Council Approves Controversial Manufactured Housing Ordinance

The Linton, Indiana City Council voted on December 12th to move forward with a manufacturing housing ordinance, which will require all future manufactured homes to be in a manufactured home community....

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Residents Facing Eviction Ask City Council for Lifeline

In a follow up to a story that the Daily Business News originally covered in October, hundreds of residents are now facing imminent eviction from the East End Mobile Home Park in Manassas, Virginia....

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MHC Rezoned, Affordable Housing Affected

In Fayetteville, Arkansas, a manufactured home community is scheduled to see its sunset – and community officials say that it’s a disturbing trend that’s affecting affordable housing across the nation....

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Murrieta proposes new restrictions for Manufactured Homes

MurerietaPatch reports the Murrieta City Council is set to vote Tuesday on amending its regulations for manufactured and pre-HUD Code mobile homes.  “The City now desires to limit the age of a...

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Planning Commission, City Council at Odds over Zoning

Although the Brownwood, Texas Planning and Zoning Commission had denied a request to rezone property from MH Manufactured Home District to M1 Restricted Industrial District, the Brownwood City Council...

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Updated Rent Stabilization for Manufactured Home Communities due in June

Rick Robinson of the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) has informed MHProNews that the city council of El Monte, California, county of Los Angeles, on March 30, 2015 approved Urgency Ordinance No....

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Google’s Modular Plans Denied; LinkedIn Links Up

Updating an article MHProNews posted March 4, 2015 regarding Google’s modular expansion plans for its North Bayshore campus, the Mountain View (CA) City Council voted to give Google only about a...

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Brownsboro Refuses to Allow Manufactured Homes a Home

Steve Larson and his wife in Brownsboro, Texas asked the city council May 14 for an exemption that would allow them to site two manufactured homes (MH) on property they own within the city. Mayor Terry...

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City Undecided about Manufactured Home Ordinance

According to marlindemocrat, a request to site a manufactured home (MH) near the Marlin Men’s Civic Association building led to some confusion at the Marlin (Texas) City Council meeting recently. While...

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Canadian Group Protests Closing of Manufactured Home Community for Senior...

A group of Canadian manufactured homeowners is asking the city of Surry, British Columbia for more protection from developers who are closing manufactured home communities (MHC) to repurpose the land....

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Plans for Manufactured Home Community Expansion on Hold

The Bloomington (IL) Planning Commission recommended City Council approve a plan for a manufactured home community (MHC) to expand on an eight-acre site that was once part of the Southgate Estates...

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Texas City Votes to Keep Manufactured Homes only in Communities

The Huntsville, Texas City Council agreed with the Planning & Zoning Commission’s recommendation that prohibits manufactured homes (MH) from being sited outside MH communities, while grandfathering...

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Huntsville City Council to Vote on Prohibiting Manufactured Homes from City

Following a story MHProNews posted July 9, 2015 regarding the Huntsville (Texas) City Council initial vote to prohibit manufactured homes from being sited inside the city limits, unless they are in a...

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Council Set to Deny Siting Request for three New Manufactured Homes

An attempt by Danny Wyant to site three new single-section manufactured homes (MH) on his mother’s property in Waynesboro, North Carolina is being met with stiff opposition from neighbors and the city...

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Lawsuit Challenges Removal of Manufactured Home Carports

A class action lawsuit has been filed on behalf of 22 owners of manufactured homes (MH) in Burnside, Minnesota after the city sent notices telling the homeowners they need to remove their carports...

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Texas City Reverses Decision, Votes to Allow Manufactured Housing

Following up on a post MHProNews wrote July 13, 2015, regarding the Huntsville, Texas, City Council’s vote to prohibit the new siting of manufactured homes within the city limits, D. J. Pendleton,...

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City Council Rejects Current Plan for Manufactured Home Community Expansion

Following a story MHProNews last posted June 25, 2015 regarding a request for expansion of a manufactured home community (MHC) on what was once part of the Southgate Estates MHC in Bloomington,...

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California City Relinquishes Enforcement of Land Lease Communities

The Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) has informed MHProNews that the city council of San Clemente, California is voting to relinquish its enforcement responsibility for the manufactured home...

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City Council Overrides Mayor’s Veto over Manufactured Housing

A proposal that adds a definition for the 19 manufactured home communities (MHC) to the city’s Comprehensive Plan, and was passed by the Spokane (WA) City Council, was vetoed by Mayor David Condon. An...

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Dover Excludes Manufactured Housing but Allows Modular Homes

Following complaints that a newly-issued building permit would allow a manufactured home to be sited on property specified for single-family permanent homes, doverpost reports the Dover (Delaware) City...

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New Ordinances for MH Communities One Reading Away

After five years of debate and rewriting of manufactured home standards for communities, the Laramie (Wyoming) City Council is one reading away from passing ordinances pertaining to manufactured home...

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Victoria BC Plans Modular Homes for the Homeless

Seattle opened its Tiny Home village for homeless people with 14 homes, each 96 square feet with heat, electricity and insulation, as globalnews.ca informs MHProNews.. Communal washrooms and showers...

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Massachusetts Mystery Home

A home in Lowell, Massachusetts that, says a neighbor who saw it delivered, is a manufactured home, is causing consternation at city hall, accoding to lowellsun. Mayor Ed Kennedy says it is a trailer...

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Modulars for Dublin Homeless Closer to Completion

Continuing to follow the ongoing saga in Dublin, Ireland where the city council is trying to begin the siting of the first 22 modular homes out of a planned 500, Environment Minister Alan Kelly insists...

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Factory-built Home Causes Wholesale Resignations of Mayor and Staff

The mayor, one city council member, the city attorney, city manager and a Board of Adjustment member have all resigned their posts in Marquette, Iowa, pop. 462, according to thegazette, possibly in...

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Clayton to Open Texas Plant, as it Celebrates 60 Years in Business

The Athens (TX) City Council adopted a resolution in support of the Athens Economic Development Corp.’s $300,000 incentive package for jobs created by Clayton Homes bringing a manufacturing plant to...

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Texas City would Restrict Manufactured Housing to under 20 Years

Following a story MHProNews last posted July 22, 2015 regarding the Huntsville (TX) City Council attempt to prohibit manufactured homes (MH) inside the city, the council will consider two ordinances...

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City Council to Consider Checkerboarding of Manufactured Homes and RVs

In March, the Laramie (WY) City Council lifted the ban on the sale or transfer of mobile homes built prior to standards of the Department of Housing and Urban Development in 1976, as laramieboomerang...

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Ohio City Sets New Standards for Manufactured Homes Outside MH Communities

MHProNews has learned from thecourier that the city council of Fostoria, Ohio approved legislation establishing new standards for manufactured homes (MH) sited in residential neighborhoods, outside of...

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Ala. City Ordinance Limits Siting of Manufactured Homes

The Courtland (Alabama) City Council’s proposed zoning ordinance limits the siting of manufactured homes (MH) to the R-1 district, and prohibits manufactured home communities from siting within the...

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