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
“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
Special interests are already celebrating that The Road to Housing Act 2025 has been added to the ‘must pass’ National Defense Authorization Act. But as hundreds of thousands of adults already know, and before long millions of American voters may realize, the ROAD to Housing Act – unless amended –
(Washington, D.C. | 9.12.2025) From September 6-10, 2025, the National Mall was transformed into a live laboratory for affordable housing solutions. According to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) those solutions included: panelized construction, modular, 3D-printed, energy-efficient manufactured homes and more. Behind the model assemblies and ribbon-cuttings,
“Nationwide, the shortage of affordable housing opportunities costs the American economy an estimated $2 trillion each year. High housing costs reduce disposable income and economic mobility, stifling economic opportunities.” – Sheldon Whitehouse (RI-D), from “A Blueprint for Prosperity: Expanding Housing Affordability.” “We Don’t Need More Subsidies, We Just Need More
“While federal preemption is a federal power, the legal mechanism of the law can be invoked at the local level. Federal law, when it preempts state or local law, can be used as a legal defense in a court case. This means that if a local government tries to
This article can be used as an introduction to newcomers or as a quick reference for those already informed about concerns over purported antitrust, RICO, SEC, Hobbs Act, IRS or other illegal behavior in the apparently underperforming 21st century manufactured housing industry. The data and links are packed with potential
Some 22 years ago, a man purchased a manufactured home which was sited in a land-lease manufactured home community (MHC), sometimes errantly called a ‘mobile home park’ or ‘trailer park’ by numbers in media or in common communications. That man was Fred Neil. Neil has represented the 3rd District in
“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.
