A move by the Indiana State Attorney General Todd Rokita to stop ‘fraudsters’ from ‘deception’ may be the kind of useful, pragmatic lesson well suited to this week’s Sunday weekly MHVille headlines in review. That press release by Rokita’s office is Part I of today’s report. Part II are the …
In the summer of 2021, the Arlington, VA based Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) exhibited rather odd behavior for a trade association that claims to represent “all segments” of “manufactured housing” and “factory-built housing” that includes modular home producers. For an example illustrated by the screen capture and report linked below, …
Cavco Industries (CVCO) President and CEO Bill Boor was and remains demonstrably correct. Boor said that the manufactured housing industry has an opportunity to “catch up” with conventional housing construction. With conventional housing builders essentially ‘maxed out,’ it raises the issue of just how high the manufactured industry’s potential might …
On a day when the markets were muted and down awaiting several developments on trade and other politically or macro-economic sensitive issues, we’ll look this evening at a promotion by one of the top ten states in manufactured housing industry shipments. Beyond our left-right news summary bullets, today’s market graphics, …
In response to an MHProNews inquiry: “The phrase “if a thing is worth doing, it’s worth doing badly” is attributed to G.K. Chesterton, and it suggests that even if something is done poorly, it’s still better to try and do it than to avoid it altogether, emphasizing the importance of taking …
There are several types of atheists and agnostics. Some are sincerely ignorant about the difficult-to-refute volumes of evidence that God exists. Then, there are people like self-described atheist Warren Buffett who is clearly intelligent and thus is perhaps willfully ignorant, or he may arguably be engaged in paltering, contradictory-hypocritical claims that …
“Compared with the unregulated mobile/trailer homes of the past, the manufactured homes built after 1976 have a higher level of safety, durability, and quality, and the small fraction of the homes damaged during hurricanes attests to their safety and durability.” – Scholastica “Gay” Cororaton, CBE, National Association of Realtors (NAR). …
Manufactured housing professionals have likely seen one or more of the headlines (see below) and may have heard the buzz about the latest Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) enforcement action taken on January 6, 2025 against Clayton Homes’s captive lender, Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance (VMF). But what thousands of professionals …
On the date this article about Franklin Homes (a.k.a.: Franklin Structurers) is being drafted that firm has an “A” rating with the Better Business Bureau. Franklin is a member of the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR), and per that MHARR website on this date: “Peter James” is MHARR’s …
“The University of Sheffield is a public research university in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England,” per left-leaning Wikipedia. “Tom [Stafford] is a Lecturer in Psychology and Cognitive Science for the Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield, UK. He is the co-author of the bestselling popular science book Mind Hacks and writes for …
According to a fresh real estate analysis by Redfin, “Investors Are Buying More Single-Family Homes Than Before” in the first quarter of 2024. “Investor purchases of single family homes rose 3.9% year over year in the first quarter, the first increase in nearly two years. Meanwhile, investor purchases of townhouses, …
“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 …
Circa 1990, per informed sources deemed reliable, the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) had all but negotiated the removable of the permanent chassis requirement for HUD Code manufactured homes that could have been part of then moving legislation. Per those same sources, the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) had …
In business or in advocacy, the case can be made that one should properly give credit or blame when it is due. This manufactured home industry expert news-analysis will explore the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) attempt on 3.21.2024 to bring to their readers and members attention a new policy initiative …
“An opponent is someone who is against a certain idea or belief, while a proponent is someone who is in favor of it,” said left-leaning Bing’s AI powered Copilot on 3.22.2024. The Biden-Harris Administration has said numerous times over the course of its first three years in office that it …
“The Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) has published a talking points paper…explaining and highlighting the three main bottlenecks that are suppressing the production, marketing and sales of affordable, mainstream manufactured homes.” That MHARR press release was provided to MHProNews and is shown in Part I below. Part II …
Evidence and researchers alike point to specific knowledge of the root causes and most proven solution to the affordable housing crisis in the U.S. That evidence, causes and solutions have been known for at least 25 years and some have said it’s been known for 50 years. With that in …
The Texas Manufactured Housing Association (TMHA) and the Texas Real Estate Research Center (TRERC) have been collaborating for some time on a monthly report on the manufactured housing industry in Texas. Several, but not all, of their reports have upon closer examination proven to be controversial. For example, there are …
According to a new 9.28.2023 markets trend report by real estate data firm ATTOM Data: “Amid the continued rebound in the U.S. housing market, annual price appreciation has outpaced weekly annualized wage changes from the third quarter of last year to the third quarter of this year in 272 of …
An MS Word search of Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies (JCHS) “State of the Nation’s Housing 2023” mentions zoning 13 times in about 50 pages of their latest research. Zoning is specifically mentioned as a barrier in the context of manufactured housing. “Affordable housing” is mentioned 9 times, including …
