It is entirely unclear to the objective, independent mind how someone can view their own profession through a purely myopic lens. The affordable housing industry’s hidden gems are arguably manufactured homes. Yet the industry is underperforming at a time when the need and demand for affordable homes are high. Further, …
This is going to be a summary that links fact-packed reports. First, put manufactured homes into a national and global context. Manufactured homes are being praised by numerous third-party reports, and a record number of renters are in the U.S. These facts ought to be part of the reason that …
“Motion – or, more accurately, activity – in and of itself, is not necessarily synonymous with, or equivalent to, real progress, or, in fact, any progress at all…” “…Recent reports emerging from elsewhere within the universe of organizations representing the manufactured housing industry paint a uniformly rosy picture of almost …
Facts are what they are and should not be over or under stated. For example, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (CA-D) is a formidable political figure, a potent fund raise, and the most powerful elected female office holder in the U.S. today. All those points about Speaker Pelosi are …
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It is a well-known concern that Clayton Homes, and their affiliated/sister Berkshire Hathaway owned lenders, has been repeatedly accused of “racism” and “predatory lending.” Maxine Waters (CA-D), the new chairperson for the powerful Housing Financial Services Committee (FSC), and 3 of her colleagues are among those who have formally lodged …
The stark saga of 85-year old Millie Francis and the theatre involving her pre-HUD Code mobile home has made the page of the ubiquitous Drudge Report since our previous update, linked here. As one of the most trafficked news websites on earth, when the Drudge team links up a topic, …
Earlier today, the Daily Business News on MHProNews published an article that featured the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in a video with his famous “I Have a Dream” speech. His dream was tied into, per King’s own words, the American Dream. The American Dream, properly understood, is at the …
“St. Petersburg police are warning families to pay attention to their children following an eight-month-long investigation into human trafficking involving two teenaged boys,” says Fox 13 YouTube page. “Investigators and victim advocates said it’s very common for children to be lured by family, family friends, or through gaming apps …
Sex and Human Trafficking Involving Manufactured Home Community, Hits Fox Video Report Read More
Once an item hits the mainstream media, or even trade media, it can begin to shape a narrative that may help or harm that operation. In as much as people – potential consumers of manufactured homes – begin or continue to form opinions based upon headlines and news accounts, …
The new National Association of Manufactured Housing Community Owners (NAMHCO) has launched another proverbial shot across the bow of the establishment Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI), that they broke away from last year. While it is too soon to see what the effectiveness of this new trade group will …
“If we will not endure a king as a political power, we should not endure a king over the production, transportation, and sale of any of the necessities of life.” — John Sherman Sherman was a mover in what today is known as the Sherman antitrust act. The act …
No Kings in America? – John Sherman ‘Speaks’ to Manufactured Housing Read More
Go ahead, say it. Naïve, idealistic, rash, foolish, or a crusader who believes that the only way that positive change occurs is by intelligently challenging the status quo. That challenge can and should be honorable, and it can and should be profitable. So, pragmatism and reason are involved. Over the …
What happens with jobs, businesses, stock markets, and the economy clearly have an impact on the nation, of which manufactured housing is a part. For close readers of the Daily Business News evening market report here on MHProNews, there is a notably strong corollary between what the broader markets …
“Playing Politics” – Immigration, Border Battle, and Manufactured Housing Read More
“Cari Gorman-Salisbury owns a 2-acre lot surrounded by R1L-175 zoning which limits property owners to site-built structures. Mistakenly believing her property, acquired in 2017, provided for manufactured homes, she bought one and had it delivered one day in September to the property located on the west side of Orme …
It has been one of the more-read articles on the Daily Business News on MHProNews, which means it is one of the hotter topics in the manufactured housing industry. And today, the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) said the following about NAMHCO – in their take on …
Capital, other market manipulations, plus an apparent failure by the Arlington, VA based Monopolistic Housing Institute (MHI) to deliver on their self-proclaimed ‘promotion’ of the industry are obvious takeaways from the latest new HUD Code manufactured home (MH) shipment report. But those are not the only problems that the …
2019 Trade Shows, Next Battleground of the Manufactured Housing Revolution? Read More
Despite what some might have (mis)understood about what our publisher wrote recently that included a mention or two of George F. (F?) Allen, the Daily Business News on MHProNews will continue to take a wheat and chaff approach with everyone in our industry, and those outside of MHVille as well. …
New Era in National U.S. Manufactured Home Community Representation Underway? Read More
Let’s be clear. There are good reasons to use proper terminology. That said, this world-famous “epic and honest” commercial further below has 4.8 million views at the time we are posting it on the Daily Business News on MHProNews. At the time that WAAY-31 TV spotlighted them, they were …
“…And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand,” – Mark 3:25, cited by Abraham Lincoln in the following quote. “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved—I do not expect the house to fall—but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all …
The Mountaineer is a newspaper based in Waynesville, North Carolina, and is owned by The Mountaineer Publishing Company, with Vicki Hyatt as the editor, says Wikipedia. They just named their person of the year as Jim Blyth, who is a real estate and modular housing professional. “Blyth is a native …
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