As the name implies, we’re launching a new MHProNews feature that will make it easier for the Sunday morning coffee drinker to pick up their tablet, smartphone or laptop and catch up on news as it relates to the manufactured housing industry.

What that means is we cover manufactured, modular and prefab home-building industry news from a primarily domestic, but including, an international perspective.

We also cover other housing, finance and public policy related news, that relates to factory built homes directly or indirectly.

What this past week demonstrates to industry pros, investors or those who have interests in quality affordable manufactured homes, is the wide array of useful reports covered every week in the Daily Business News.

As regular readers know, we share events from an unabashedly pro-factory-built housing industry lens, even when the news report may seem to be unfavorable. The stories that follow can be seen as evidence why manufactured homes could grow beyond current levels, see more on the opportunities for MH growth topic linked here.

Our regular readers tell us they save time and keep in touch with the challenges and upside opportunities by reading our one-of-a-kind news resource for the factory built housing industry. Our revised news format has seen another growth in readers and page views. All this suggests you’re wise to be reading here and are joined daily by thousands like yourself.

Here are the headlines from the Daily Business News (DBNs) the week of 11.9 to 11.15 2014.

Saturday November 15, 2014

Manufactured Housing and the Freddie Mac deal, revisited

Friday November 14, 2014

The other side of Public Housing and Public Policy on Manufactured Housing

Showdown over Keystone? Dow dips, but Manufactured Housing Composite Value Rises

Discriminatory Mail Service? Postal deliveries resume after service suspension to manufactured home community

Memo asserts HUD Code Manufactured Housing Program “Seriously Off Track”

Howell Utah Violating 4th Amendment Rights of Mobile and Manufactured Home Owners?

Storm Clouds Loom – Neal-Pascrell-Menendez bill – disguised attacked on risk reducing reinsurance?

Thursday November 13, 2014

Deer Valley Spikes, Manufactured Housing Composite Slides

No-frills Muji prefab designed for Tiny Urban lots

Vanishing affordability for housing in Chicago and beyond?

Do Home Resale Slides reported by Realtors ® signal opportunities for factory built home professionals?

Wounded Vet to get free Palm Harbor Home

We the Economy

Wednesday November 12, 2014

Take Profits, says MarketWatch, most Manufactured Housing stocks rise

US Bank Exits from Indirect Manufactured Housing Lending

Home owners, State Association Protest as County seeks to restrict placement of older Manufactured Homes

Michael Bloomberg says Dodd-Frank “Stupid,” slamming it and ObamaCare

American Land Lease Announces Dividend

Carefree Communities closes on 18, says now #5 in MHC holdings

National Law Review report Reveals insights on CFPB Plans for Enforcement

November 11, 2014.

Implementing rules in newly acquired manufactured home community results in resident, media reaction

5th Straight record on Dow, Skyline up 2.5%, but MH Composite value slips

Realtors urged to educate Consumers about Online Valuation models

Veteran Day’s 2014 – Honoring Vets & Offering Manufactured Homes-VA loans to Veterans

AMG’s Sean M Healey to speak to Bank of America/Merrill Lynch conference

ObamaCare Architect Jonathan Gruber – Lack of Transparency needed to pass ACA

November 10, 2014.

NASDAQ says SearchCore’s Wisdom Homes providing alternative for Boomers

Eugene W. Landy Acquires 5000 more shares of UMH stock

New Market Highs, Commodities slide, Manufactured Housing Composite Rise

JDSupra spotlights the 6th Circuit ruling in Bennett v CMH Homes – are manufactured homes a consumer product?

RV/MH Hall of Fame Challenge Advances

Willmar gives Preliminary nod for tax abatement for Manufactured Home Community in Exchange for Improvements ##

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