It may be April 1, but this is no joke. Senior leadership for the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) – Peter James, Ed Hussey Jr., Mark Weiss, and Danny Ghorbani – met with U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary E. Scott Turner and some of …
L. A. “Tony” Kovach has been publishing close to an article a day on the Patch on a range of topics that include affordable housing and manufactured homes, but also include book and movie reviews, politics, economics, and more. From a post by Kovach on the Patch on Monday 9.23.2024 …
“Every day is an IQ test.” Says former award-winning CNN journalist turned award-winning WMAL satirical pundit Chris Plante. “Pay more attention to what people do than what they say.” That’s a maxim repeatedly used by award-winning and longtime Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) member Marty Lavin, who also recommends that thinkers …
During a Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) meeting, a prior MHI chairman referred to Danny Ghorbani as “the elephant in the room.” Why “the elephant in the room” for MHI? That’s a fair question. Ghorbani is an engineer by training, which means facts, evidence and solid science are all part of …
Google’s data editor Simon Rogers once said, “You’re never as honest as you are with your search engine. You get a sense of what people genuinely care about and genuinely want to know.” That’s a paradoxical yet insightful lead into the report that follows. “I first saw this story in 1972 and …
L.A.”Tony Kovach Publisher, Industry Expert, and Chief Consultant. MHProNews Question 2: DUTY to Serve “In our Q&A of March 9, 2020, you indicated that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are using various schemes to cover-up and get away with their ongoing evasion of the Duty to Serve (DTS) mandate established …
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About Danny Ghorbani What the RV/MH Hall of Fame Says About Danny Ghorbani Danny D. Ghorbani then President and CEO of the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) in Washington DC was inducted into the RV/MH (Mobile and Manufactured Home) Hall of Fame in 2004. Ghorbani’s career has spanned over …
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For those into affordable housing issues and how zoning continues to confront America, or who are specifically in the manufactured home field, there may be no single association leader who has more experience than Danny Ghorbani has. Certainly, no one at the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) at a senior position …
As tens of thousands of industry professionals and investors know, among the hottest topics in manufactured housing is routinely the topic of financing. In this third Q&A with Danny Ghorbani, who worked for years for the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) before leaving and launching what today is known as the …
As was announced in a November Daily Business News brief linked here, Danny Ghorbani, President and CEO of the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) is retiring. Writing in The Journal, Danny shares a look back and ahead. He thanks Journal publisher Jim Visser, his industry friends, MHARR colleagues …
WASHINGTON, D.C., NOVEMBER 20, 2014 — Danny D. Ghorbani, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) will be retiring effective December 31, 2014. A 46-year veteran of the manufactured housing industry who has served since 1985 as the first and only President & CEO of MHARR, Ghorbani was asked …
46 year manufactured housing industry veteran, Danny D. Ghorbani, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) will be retiring effective December 31, 2014. In a release anticipated by MHProNews, MHARR stated that Mr. Ghorbani, “A 46-year veteran of the manufactured housing industry who has served …
The national trade group, Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR), says in a Journal OpEd by their CEO emailed on October 14th of the potential risks related to government actions to expand laws currently regulating HUD Code factory-built home industry. Efforts to implement further regulations on Manufactured Homes (MH) …
On Sunday, March 16 at 4:47 PM ET, a news release was received from the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) on the topic of the highly-charged issue of a Government Sponsored Enterprise (GSE, “Fannie and Freddie”) reform plan. Some 3 Hours and 43 minutes later, at 8:30 PM on the same …
Sources have told MHProNews that Danny Ghorbani, President and CEO of the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) has once more allegedly made threatening statements directed at our publisher, as Ghorbani’s response to articles and commentaries published that analyze Ghorbani’s written/public statements. Why? “Our industry needs financing and is …
Danny Ghorbani is an award-winning engineer and national association leader who served for years as a vice president in what is today known as the Manufactured Housing Institute. Ghorbani has been described by a former MHI chairman as ‘the elephant in the room’ during an MHI meeting. Because of the …
It was on 12.13.2015 that award-winning consumer affairs journalist Jan Hollingsworth did a report on the zoning and placement problems vexing manufactured housing that included comments from Clayton Homes, an independent manufactured housing retailer, and then-MHEC member Jay Hamilton. It was entitled “Local Star Chambers Wage War on Affordable Housing.” …
Responding to an article in the Clarion-Ledger newspaper in Jackson, Mississippi in which Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney says, “manufactured homes…are not built to any code,” Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform’s (MHARR) Danny Ghorbani strongly disputes that claim. He says, “Manufactured homes that are designed and built to be …
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Two new Industry in Focus reports drew cheers from numerous industry business and association leaders from coast to coast. Sources close to George F. Allen and Danny Ghorbani whispered they met the reports with jeers – and in concert with their close knit group of cross-promoters – are already discussing …
by Danny Ghorbani — HUD’s recently released Fiscal Year 2012 budget and appropriations request for the federal manufactured housing program shows why Congress needs to carefully scrutinize program spending and demand accountability from HUD regulators for the misdirection of funds previously appropriated by Congress. The time for the industry to press for such intervention, moreover, is now, when all aspects of the program budget are subject to oversight by Congress based on section 620 of the Manufactured Housing Improvement Act of 2000, and not later, during a HUD administrative rulemaking on higher label fees, when the only issue will be the amount of the increase and industry objections are unlikely to receive any kind of hearing.
