What some in manufactured housing are calling the “deep state” at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is alive and well. That would be a fair reading of the on-the-record comments from Mark Weiss, J.D., regarding HUD’s purportedly problematic response to MHProNews on the question of Manufactured Housing’s …
Earlier this evening, left-of-center CNBC reported the following. President Donald Trump said he signed legislation to impose sanctions on China in response to its interference with Hong Kong’s autonomy. Trump also said that he signed an executive order ending the preferential treatment that Hong Kong has long enjoyed. The Trump …
The left-of-center New York Times’ Business section this morning opened with the headline, “’I Can’t Keep Doing This:’ Small-Business Owners Are Giving Up.” NY Times writer Emily Flitter said, “More owners are permanently shutting their doors after new lockdown orders, realizing that there may be no end in sight to …
Robert Schiller spoke today with left-of-center CNBC about housing and the markets. The origin of the Case-Schiller index is, per Wikipedia is as follows. “The Standard & Poor’s Case–Shiller Home Price Indices are repeat-sales house price indices for the United States. … These Indices are based on original work by …
Recent reports about the broader housing market set the context for manufactured housing potential. That, in turn, is relevant to the formal, on-the-record responses provided by the Department of Housing and Urban Affairs (HUD) to MHProNews relative to FHA lending. HUD also provided significant replies on the Manufactured Housing Improvement …
One of the happiest, sharpest guys I know is a former alcoholic. He’s been in AA – Alcoholics Anonymous – for over 2 decades. Proficient in his business – we met due to manufactured housing – he adapts and rocks on in his part of the country. That’s a true …
Berkshire Hathaway owned Acme Bricks has been caught up for over a month in allegations that seek to tie Bill Gates, who owns significant holdings in Berkshire (BRK) and sat on their board until March 2020, sometimes Warren Buffett, and other billionaires. The claim is that assaults on law enforcement …
There are few things more important to main street business and investors that having maximum certainty. As Kurt Kelley, J.D., has said, the rule of law is the foundation for a sound economic system. quote The Black Lives Matter (BLM) website says that: “On July 13, 2013 we disrupted business …
People are moving out of cities and out of several specific states. For example, New York City (NYC) lost reportedly lost 59,000 in 2019 alone. According to BisNow, “Its population shrank by a half-percent to 8.4 million between 2017 and 2018, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Almost 1.4 million …
The American Enterprise Institute Housing Center’s data that will follow further below are framed in part against pre-and post-pandemic trends. That makes sense, because millions of businesses, workers, and others are concerned with what lies ahead. Investors crave certainty, so the saying goes. There are several things that appear to …
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There are any number of reasons why manufactured housing should be surging instead of struggling as it has been for some 15 (+/-) years. The headline report is potentially one of them, but first let’s consider some other points. An aspect of the HUD Code manufactured home industry’s woes the …
Representative Ilhan Omar held a news conference on “systemic racism” with Minnesota leaders on Tuesday 7.7.2020. CBS Local said that “Rep. Ilhan Omar, whose represents the congressional district” that George Floyd’s tragic death and the subsequent civil unrest have occurred. Omar took to television cameras and microphones to make her …
Left-of-center Yahoo News is among the news outlets that have spotlighted a video from right-of-center Fox News interview with White House Trade Adviser Peter Navarro. India is one of the nations that is pushing for Chinese accountability in their purported mishandling of the Wuhan Coronavirus pandemic, also known as COVID19, …
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms took to the news media’s cameras and microphones on Monday after that city was rocked by the death of an eight-year-old killed in broad daylight while traveling in a car. Atlanta is one of numerous cities and town where violence has spiked in the aftermath …
Psychologist Chrysalis Wright, Ph.D. who studies media and reporting has said that even though no one wants to do it, to get a clear snapshot of what is actually occurring on many topics, there is a need to source from more than one media outlet. MHProNews has taken that stance …
The following is data collected by the IBTS – Institute for Building Technology and Safety – gathered on behalf of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The report is from the Washington, D.C. based Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR). The MHARR report and analysis is …
For two months running, job creation – or recreation – has outpaced expectations. The hope of a so-called V shaped recovery have been growing. But has media across the left-right media divide have reported, the numbers of newly reported daily cases of COVID19 has surged past 55,000, according to the …
An email from a resident of a manufactured home community in a deep blue state includes the following unedited words. It should be noted that prior messages from that same source were veritable rages against President Donald Trump. “The problem I have is simple: People on bsides [i.e. both sides] …
Media has an ability to spotlight and issue, twist, morph, or blow it out of proportion. Has any of that occurred with the post-George Floyd slaying at the video recorded hands of a Minneapolis police officer? Views on that will vary according to who is asked. That said, stop and …
