To understand the confusion and lack of progress in solving the U.S. affordable housing crisis let’s start with an insight from the 1963 classic movie Charade. Author Robert Ringer explained a famous and wise piece of dialogue from that movie (italics added). “When Regina Lampert (Audrey Hepburn) asks Peter Joshua […]
“There are no finish lines in politics there are only checkpoints.” – Derek Hunter (WMAL-7.1.2025). There is an array of sources for interesting, sometimes insightful, or otherwise useful research. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and its Policy Development and Research (PD&R) office certainly are among them.
“Operation Breakthrough’s biggest accomplishment, however, was the adoption of the HUD Code, which introduced the industry and the world to manufactured housing.” So says a pull quote from the new report by Regina Gray HUD’s Director of Affordable Housing Research and Technology and its remarks about HUD Code manufactured homes. That
Stating the obvious, it is campaign season. Despite dozens of charges (some 91) and legal maneuvers against their biggest challenger, the Biden-Harris (D) ticket is behind in most polls for the past 6 months when compared to deposed prior President Donald J. Trump (R) in a two or multi-person race.
The Manufactured Housing Consensus Committee (MHCC) has voted to reject the “destructive” proposed Department of Energy (DOE) manufactured housing energy enforcement rule. So says the news release issued by the Washington, D.C. based Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR). Manufactured housing has just finished its worst year as measured
The Daily Signal has thoughtfully made available to MHProNews the following exclusive report on regulations and what that publication says is the “hidden tax” and impact of regulations on the average American family caused by Biden era federal policies. The title to their exclusive is: “Here’s How Much Regulations Cost
The following is adapted from an email to Congressional staff sent to Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (LA-R) team and to Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (NY-D) communications director on this date (11.11.2025). MHProNews notes that in this MHVille facts-evidence-analysis (FEA) the formatting may be somewhat different, but the text,
“New York City’s new mayor-elect, self-described Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani, won on an “affordability” platform but used his victory speech to declare open class warfare against landlords and “the bosses,” while promising that government can solve every problem. Even the left-leaning Washington Post editorial board called it a mask-drop moment
In this MHProNews journalistic MHVille facts-evidence-analysis (FEA) probe, there are several topics at work. The first involves Google itself. The second is the distinctive Google AI overview/preview treatment of the subject of the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) followed by a closer look at the dynamics within the affordable housing market
“U.S. housing needs are vast, and manufactured homes are among the most cost-effective ways to fill that gap — if policy and practice stop getting in the way. The data you already published — a new IBTS/industry production and shipments compilation combined with annual totals (1995–Aug 2025) — makes plain
