Allen Legacy
My How Things Change Over the Decades! by George Allen, CPM Emeritus, MHM-Master
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Between 2004 and 2014 there were two efforts, one by “group think” and one by individual effort, to document the evolution of trade terminology within the manufactured housing industry and then manufactured home communities nationwide. The first initiative occurred during meetings of the Urban Land Institute’s Manufactured Housing Communities Council, founded in 2004 as a quasi-think tank for matters pertaining to factory-built housing of the manufactured housing type. The result? Nothing published, but a working paper kept on hand for future reference. The MHCC functioned well for a decade, but ceased to exist in 2015. A second initiative, effected by California-based author Bob Vahsholtz, during research for his specialty text “Dueling Curves, The Battle for Housing” published in 2014 picked »
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