Whatever your position is on Nancy Pelosi (CA-D), she is proving you can’t beat someone with no one. That principle applies in numerous aspects of one’s business or professional life too, including our once far-greater in scope industry. Affordable housing advocates need more than a lament. Those who […]
“Housing supply constraints are limiting where people can live and work across the country. When workers can’t afford to live near their jobs, employers struggle to hire, communities lose economic competitiveness, and growth stalls.” So said the AEI Housing Center email to MHProNews on 6.2.2026. AEI and the U.S. Chamber
Experience demonstrates that someone can agree or disagree with almost anyone about almost anything, in or beyond the manufactured housing industry. That is said to frame what follows. MHProNews notes that Curtis “Curt” Hodgson has long been willing to make certain statements and admissions that some of his publicly traded
According to HUD’s own researchers, for over fifty years Democratic and Republican Administration leaders failed to address the root causes of the affordable housing crisis. That failure arguably includes not facilitating technologically available modern affordable housing at the historic scale which has, per various organizational estimates, costs the U.S. economy
In a facts-evidence-analysis (FEA) packed report linked here, research by LendingTree and the Apartment List shed light on the U.S. housing market by generations. Centuries of proven economic principles should be considered through the lens of sources that span the left and right. Economist Thomas Sowell’s principles—that adding a layer
For years, MHProNews has aimed to use a variety of methods to convey a simple and factually accurate notion. That without millions of more HUD Code manufactured homes, the U.S. affordable housing crisis can’t be solved, regardless of the claims others make. This platform has also explored a range of
Holland & Knight’s Public Policy & Regulation Group said on 3.19.2026: “The U.S. Senate on March 12, 2026, passed its version of the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act (H.R. 6644) by a vote of 89-10. The bill now returns to the U.S. House of Representatives for further consideration.” HKLaw.com also
Prominent Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) members and board of directors members “Cavco Industries, Inc., Clayton Homes, Inc.,…Champion Homes, Inc.” are among “organizations [that] have also endorsed the Housing for the 21st Century Act” according to the House Financial Services Committee website (in the alphabetical order they provided, see Part I for complete
This article is book length because it contains the full text in Part I from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) research on the subject of “Eliminating Regulatory Barriers to Affordable Housing: Federal, State, Local, and Tribal Opportunities.” Per prior HUD Secretary Ben Carson in the foreword:
“The relevance to attorneys and public officials is clear: The manufactured housing industry is currently a “controlled” market. The “MHI Party Line” serves to protect the assets of the “Big Three” and major REITs by ensuring that the industry never reaches its full production potential.” That’s part of the facts-evidence-analysis
