A healthy home is designed, built and maintained in support of good health. This Healthy Homes booklet highlights ways to prevent diseases and injuries that could result from housing-related hazards and deficiencies. You will find information about maintaining a Healthy Home. Start by learning the eight Healthy Homes principles. Keep your home: dry, clean, pest-free, safe, contaminant-free, ventilated, and maintained. For more information, tenants can visit the Healthy Home Website hosted by the Tennessee Department of Health! We all could use helpful healthy tips!
This resource is also available in Spanish! Download a copy here.
HUD has launched its Assistance Animals and Fair Housing – Navigating Reasonable Accommodations Interactive Tool.
The tool allows users to click through a series of questions which guide users through HUD’s January 2020 Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity Notice 2020-01. In that Notice, HUD set forth guidance on housing providers’ obligations under the Fair Housing Act to provide reasonable accommodations to housing consumers with disabilities who require the use of an assistance animal. Now, housing providers and consumers alike may use the tool to ensure compliance with the Fair Housing Act’s requirements related to reasonable accommodations for assistance animals. Some of the information which can be obtained from the tool includes the following:
The Manufactured Housing Institute commissioned an in-depth consumer research project about the demographics, perceptions, and preferences of manufactured homeowners and residents. MHI worked with Trifecta Research for the study, and the findings provide exciting insights into a variety of topics and market trends, including the characteristics and satisfaction of individuals who live in manufactured homes across the country. This extensive independent research study of manufactured housing residents reveals positive signs for future growth.
The data has been compiled by subject into three documents which can be used for reference:
Published annually by Wells Fargo, you may sign up here to access the report, where you’ll gain insight on recent lending trends, economic conditions, and underwriting considerations impacting the financing of manufactured home communities.
The ACM® program is a comprehensive study of manufactured home community management topics. This program covers a broad range of manufactured home community management topics to include: management and resident policies, community maintenance, leasing and sales techniques, marketing communities, taxes, insurance, financial management, business planning, physical asset management, federal laws and fair housing law. Community owners, managers and others in key management roles within a community may attend classes.
The in-person ACM® program consists of two courses, the first lasting three and one-half days and the second lasting two and one-half days. (This class is now offered online.)
This Professional Housing Consultant Designation Program is now available online. The PHC course is designed for employees of retail sales centers and land-lease communities that conduct onsite home sales.
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