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 …
“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 …
Berkshire Hathaway (BRK). BlackRock (BLK). Vanguard (several stock symbols). State Street (several stock symbols). Those companies are financial giants. They are among the deepest corporate pockets on planet Earth. Those four mega-corporations are all invested in various aspects of HUD Code manufactured housing. Which should beg the question. Why is …
The answer to misinformation isn’t censorship or throttling, as some would claim. The common answer to misinformation is better information and a better presentation of information. While there may be some exceptions to the rule, perhaps something like not publishing nuclear secrets that could end up costing millions or billions …
“US Housing Starts & Building Permits Plunge In September” is the headline from the financial news and views site ZeroHedge, which in turn credits the following graphics to left-leaning Bloomberg. Among the quoted items in Part I will be a correction made by MHProNews for an apparent typo which in …
The “contributed content” by Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) CEO Lesli Gooch and MHI President Mark Bowersox in the most recent article posted on MHI endorsed MHVillage’s MHInsider is 1121 words, not counting the headline, byline and date. MHI leaders decided for their own reasons to put CEO Gooch more ‘on …
“The Legal Services Corporation’s (LSC) Housing Task Force released an issue brief today on the role of mobile and manufactured housing in housing insecurity and instability in the United States. The brief compiles pertinent research and provides experts’ insights into the unique issues that owners of manufactured homes face.” That …
To help financial insecurity, Kamala Harris (D) began to lay out a plan to take on “big food companies,” “big pharma,” and ‘exploitation’ in the housing market, she said in campaign event in North Carolina yesterday. It has been almost a month since Joe Biden (D) stepped aside from his …
Manufactured home production increased modestly in June 2024, per data provided by the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR), which in turn bases that on the official information collected on behalf of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). That information is found in Part I of …
IBISWorld stated in the pitch for their recent 2024 report that as: “traditional house prices soared, making affordable manufactured homes a more attractive proposition. Still, the industry has also been undergoing consolidation as less-profitable dealers either exited the market or merged with larger players, intensifying market concentration.” MHProNews has reported …
“This long-needed reversal should stem the vast tide of federal agencies’ overreach,” said U.S. House Oversight Chair James Comer (KY-R) in recent remarks provided below in a report provided by The Center Square to MHProNews. In a letter provided below in Part II addressed to Isabella Casillas Guzman, Administrator of …
Mainstream news headlines are often focused on the drama swirling around Joe Biden, his cognitive/health woes, or his possible replacement as the 2024 Democratic Presidential candidate, but that topic is sucking up oxygen from kitchen table inflationary and other financial pressures impacting mobile and manufactured homeowners living in corporate land …
“People living in manufactured home parks are soon to join the next wave of homelessness,” said Judy Annin to Oregon Live. Annin is the founder of “Manufactured Homeowners for Change, Oregon.” An editor for Oregon Live provided Annin’s letter shown in Part I of this report with analysis. In an …
Sarah Wheeler, “Editor in Chief at HousingWire” has known since about Wednesday Oct 6, 2021, that there are concerns about Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) CEO Lesli Gooch, Ph.D. But let’s hold that for a few minutes. It is Wednesday once more. Chris Plante routinely explains that Wednesday is Hump Day …
“The United States is experiencing its second crisis of housing scarcity. Unlike the first, which arose in fast-growing 19th century cities before the advent of tall buildings and modern transit, this one is purely political.” So wrote Alex Armlovich and Andrew Justus, J.D., housing policy analysts for the Niskanen Center …
“Antitrust is a kitchen table issue.” So said Assistant Attorney General Jonathan Kanter in a speech provided below that included a discussion of moats and the importance of protecting competitive markets. However: “We’re often up against companies and firms with multiples of the lawyers and economists and paralegals and staff …
“Failed public policies are creating a two-tiered society in America, where an entire generation of Americans likely won’t ever be able to afford their own homes,” says the subheading of the article posted below by economist E.J. Antoni on sobering claims about the role green housing mandates are playing in …
On May 3, 2024 the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) released via email the following statement to members of the manufactured housing industry about the latest national manufactured housing industry production data. Those same emailed remarks were published on the MHARR website at this link here also on …
At a time when U.S. housing experts have consistently sounded alarms on the lack of housing affordability, especially for first time home buyers, reports indicate that Cavco Industries has had “insiders” selling shares of their stock (CVCO). In a separate but arguably related topic, earlier this week in testimony to …
Last month, Michael Weinstein – an apparent man from the left, per aspects of his own bio – ripped Democratic housing policies in an article entitled “On Housing, Trickle-Down Democrats Have Failed Americans in Need” on RealClearPolitics. While some think that the left is monolithic, Weinstein is evidence that is …
