Housing And Urban Development

The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has settled two Fair Housing Act cases and filed one new case. The descriptions below are from press releases issued by HUD. While the cases [...]

The key to fixing the homeless and affordable housing crisis in places like New York City is fewer regulations and less money unceremoniously flung at the issues, U.S. Department of Housing and [...]

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 [...]

Freddie Mac has announced that starting March 1, 2020 CHOICEHomes will no longer have to include a garage or carport to be program eligible.  This is fantastic news! I have worked with the [...]

Residents at the Westwinds Mobile Home Park in San Jose, California started this decade with an unsettling surprise. Just after New Year’s, mobile home park management taped letters to the 723 [...]

Determining the worth of a used mobile home that was manufactured over four decades ago is difficult and subject to numerous variables. Generally, a mobile home of pre-HUD Code vintage is only [...]

A major challenge facing owners and operators of manufactured home communities involves reasonable accommodations for service and assistance animals under the Fair Housing Act.  Sixty percent of [...]

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 [...]

In a recent blog by Brynn Barger appearing in MHINSIDER Magazine titled “The Shift: Tiny House Builders Moving Toward Manufactured Homes,” echoing the seemingly imminent demise of the “tiny home [...]

“Don’t knock manufactured homes or their value to America” proclaims Suzanne Anarde in an op-ed published in the Opinion section of USA Today on Friday, November 24, 2017. Following excerpts from [...]