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This month HUD has settled two Fair Housing cases.  In the first case, it was alleged that the owners and operators of certain rental units discriminated against families with children “by [...]

Russellville, Alabama – This week Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Ben Carson embarked on a national bus tour focused on regulatory barriers to affordable housing called the [...]

Perhaps you have contemplated the purchase of a new modern manufactured home and are not sure if you should locate the home in a manufactured home community (also known as a “mobile home” park). [...]

Ben Carson, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development is making factory-built housing, specifically, affordable and resilient housing a priority. Fox Business’ Stuart Varney had a chance [...]

A manufactured home is a poor investment because they depreciate. Right? — Wrong!   That lingering myth and the lack of quality affordable site-built housing across the country has [...]

AFR Wholesale is a national residential mortgage lender, who is expanding the manufactured housing industry’s presence by training and educating local and national mortgage brokers to understand [...]

“Competition is very good…As long as long as it’s healthy. It’s what makes one strive to be better.” …. Christine Lahti There are about 38,000 manufactured home land-lease communities [...]

New Emphasis: Retaining Affordable Housing By Assuring Security For Mobile And Manufactured Home Owners “Manufactured homes provide the largest unsubsidized form of affordable housing in the [...]

Nearly five years ago, Southern Energy Homes vacated and relocated its manufactured home building operations in Double Springs, Alabama. That manufactured housing facility was the primary [...]

Happy 2019! The first week of the new year brought a strong influx of stories about upcoming manufactured housing construction projects, efforts to create more affordable housing and the [...]