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Relentless continuing escalation of home prices and high mortgage interest rates, combined with a multitude of other inflationary pressure is forcing many would-be buyers to put their dreams on [...]

It’s a fact:  Today’s modern high quality new manufactured home is at least equal or superior to a comparable site-built home in construction quality, design, materials, safety, features and [...]

Source: excerpts from newsletter NISKANEN…Manufactured homes currently provide 8.4 million affordable, unsubsidized homes across the United States, with an additional 100,000 new units entering [...]

On October 9, FHFA introduced a new Manufactured House Price Index to provide quarterly data on price trends for manufactured homes, a market segment which is noted as an affordable option for [...]

HUD announced on September 11 an extensive update to its “Manufactured Home Construction and Safety Standards” (HUD Code). The update is meant to improve the efficiency of new home production and [...]

U.S.Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development West Virginia Director Ryan Thorn announced that Rural Development is extending a pilot program for people in West Virginia seeking [...]

HUD’s recent update to the manufacture home building code makes several critical regulatory updates, aligning with NIskanen’s recommendation to increase the cap for multi-unit manufactured homes [...]

Source: Lexington Ky. (WKYT) – “It’s not your grandmother’s mobile home anymore,” said Logan Hanes. The Executive Director of the Kentucky Manufactured Housing Institute. Hanes was [...]

Tim Scott versus the Chassis Requirement Recently, a group of Republican senators led by Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) introduced the Renewing Opportunity in the American Dream (ROAD) to Housing Act. [...]

Source: Concord Monitor (excerpts)  –  New Hampshire is known for many firsts: the first to declare independence from England, and its first-in-the-nation primary. New Hampshire is also the first [...]