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31542
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The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has become the second major federal agency to agree to begin tailoring its funding programs to fit North Carolina’s balanced growth efforts across the state. A two-year experiment will determine whether funds and assistance are most effective when funneled through the state, an area-wide planning agency, or directly to the local governments.
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31554
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The Qualla Housing Authority is planning to carve and build new brick dwellings for the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians directly within the mountains of Western North Carolina, but various soil conservation problems are associated with such a project. The Soil Conservation Service recommended to use a high-pressure hydroseeder to plant grass, prevent erosion and maintain a foundation.
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32220
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Many North Carolina firms are producing pre-built housing, which represent the latest development in low-cost modern housing. The change they are bringing in the industry has caused the North Carolina Mobile Housing Institute to change its name to the North Carolina Manufactured Housing Institute. Becky L. Griffin, the Institute’s executive director, discusses how the new unit could be an answer to North Carolina’s housing shortage.
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32223
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The growing popularity of mobile homes is making the manufacture and sale of them one of North Carolina’s fastest growing businesses. Mobile homes may be the answer to the housing shortage because they offer complete housing packages, completely furnished, at economical prices well below the cost of other housing.
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32224
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Bill Wellons is planning to develop a “mobile home city” called Olde Farme, located near Fort Bragg at Fayetteville. Wellons decided on mobile homes rather than houses because of high building costs and interest rates. Five-hundred acres of former farm and wood land are being converted to develop mobile housing, recreation and service shops for Olde Farme.
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32225
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Jones-Onslow Electric Membership Corporation of Jacksonville is growing at an average of nine-hundred new consumers a year. Alvin Morton, its general manager, discusses why the Jones-Onslow area is growing at one of the fastest rates in the state. In addition to the military and tourism industries, mobile home manufacturing has created new jobs and contributed to the area’s thriving economy.
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31041
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The natural spring once touted as the southeastern North Carolina's most promising resource is not the center of a new and novel development. Bouncing Log Spring has become Boiling Springs Lake, Inc; the 14000 acre coastal oak and long leaf pine area is being transformed into a budding housing development surrounding a 350 acre man-make lake.
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