Competition for housing has driven up home prices across Massachusetts. Some of the biggest gains have happened in mobile home communities where residents can least afford to pay more. Boston local NPR (GBH News) is exploring the impact of the series Priced Out: The fight for housing in Massachusetts. The following is the second story...
‘Beach Condo’ that sold for $1.5 million in Hamptons’ ‘Billionaires’ Corner’ is a trailer Trailer trash? Hardly … Expensive? Very. Montauk, N.Y. – A 600-square-foot single-wide mobile home in the ritzy Hampton area on the east end of Long Island has been on the market since September 14 for a cool $1.5 million. And according...
High homeownership costs and a persisting housing shortage have caused many to consider manufactured housing. Source: GLOBEST – The ongoing housing shortage has ramped up demand for manufactured housing, as persistent inflation and economic uncertainty have some Americans who are nearing retirement seeking out alternative options. “High homeownership costs and a persisting housing shortage have...
The high cost and dearth of affordable homes have forced many middle and lower-income families to forego the uniquely American dream of homeownership….at least in the traditional (site-built) sense. However, it doesn’t necessarily have to be that way. There is another way to realize that dream of possessing a home that meets or exceeds the...
Veteran NPR reporter John Burnett checked in on how mobile/manufactured homes fared in Hurricane Ian. Burnett points to manufactured homes that were built after Hurricane Andrew wiped out entire South Florida mobile home communities in 1994. In 1994, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development raised the building standards for manufactured homes while also...
There are in excess of 22 million people in the U.S. that reside in manufactured homes. A large portion of that population lives in land lease communities throughout every state in the union. A significant portion of that community population are seniors that have chosen to live out their lives in an age-regulated community, sharing...
Troy, Mich – The National Association of Home Builders has recognized Skyline Champion as an industry leader with a Building Systems Councils (BSC) Jerry Rouleau Award for Excellence in Marketing & Home Design. The awards, which celebrate the best in offsite construction, honored Skyline Champion at the Building Systems Housing Summit, Sept 18-20 in Atlanta,...
(Source: Wall Street Journal) –The following are excerpts from an obituary by James R. Hagerty for WSJ. John Boll, who started his career as a digger of sewer ditches, relaunched himself in the mid-1960s as a highly successful developer of mobile home parks. One of his goals was to escape the “trailer trash” stigma and...
Chris Nicely, president of ManufacturedHomes.com and ModularHomes.com, is announcing the appointment of John Ace Underwood as Executive Director of LearnMH. LearnMH was founded with the goal of forging a powerful industry brand identity through training, education, awareness, marketing, and overall process improvement. Underwood brings over 35 years of experience in the manufactured housing industry as...
According to a report by The Epoch Times, elderly residents of mobile home parks in Huntington Beach, California, may be eligible for temporary monthly relief from housing rent payments soon after city councilors unanimously approved a rental assistance program on Sept.6. “I know this isn’t a panacea to the rental increases that our mobile home...
