Manufactured Home Communities

Today’s modern new manufactured home is at least equal or superior to a comparable site-built home in construction quality, design, materials, safety, features, amenities, options, and will cost [...]

“Putting the cart before the horse”  is occasionally applicable to purchasers of new manufactured homes. This is understandable — it’s easy fall in love with a beautiful, modern [...]

A lack of affordable housing continues to pervade the United States, even in sprawling, rural states like Montana. The consensus of federal, state, county, and city officials is that manufactured [...]

The headline of this article uses the words “trailer park”. This is a characterization that, unfortunately, not only still exists in the American lexicon—but is still used often, and often [...]

The Kilgore, Texas City Council has postponed a final decision to amend its manufactured home ordinances after attorneys for a mobile home park threatened to file federal housing and civil rights [...]

The Manufactured Housing Institute’s National Communities Council (MHI NCC) released its list of the 50 largest manufactured home community owners and operators in the United States. The [...]

As General Counsel for the Manufactured Housing Institute, the industry’s largest trade association, I spend a great deal of time dealing with issues relative to the Fair Housing Act. Passed [...]

A quick review of last week’s manufactured housing news indicates zoning changes for manufactured homes in Kilgore, Texas, will go before the City Council. On the FEMA front, fewer than 1,000 [...]

Hunt Mortgage Group has announced it has provided a $33.6 million loan to refinance Summit Mobile Home Park in West Hills, California. This is the first manufactured housing community in the [...]

Mobile Home Park Plaintiffs Claim Their Right To “Equal Protection” Under The 14th Amendment To The U.S. Constitution. Six months ago, the Iberia Parish Council passed two ordinances that [...]