Can America Love Manufactured Housing? It's Complicated
$108B Of Real Estate May Be Underwater In 80 Years
Austin Reviews Short-Term Rental Rules After 5th Circ. Ruling
Can America Love Manufactured Housing? It's Complicated
Manufactured housing communities, or MHCs, are the contemporary incarnations of the mobile home and trailer parks of yore, but, with quality now drastically improved, they are increasingly attracting the attention of government officials and interest groups seeking to address the housing crunch.
$108B Of Real Estate May Be Underwater In 80 Years
Scientists project that over a million U.S. coastal properties worth more than $108 billion will sink at least partly below the tide line by 2100, according to an analysis by the nonprofit Climate Central.
Austin Reviews Short-Term Rental Rules After 5th Circ. Ruling
City officials in Austin, Texas, are rethinking a city ordinance regulating short-term rentals such as Airbnb and Vrbo after the Fifth Circuit found recently that New Orleans' rules wrongly discriminated against out-of-state property owners.
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