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Castro Slammed for Trump Donor Info, plus Manufactured Home Investment Updates

By / / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

It has been several days since we curated video content from right-of-center Fox Business, and this particular topic seems ever timely. Congressman Joaquin Castro (D-Texas), twin brother of 2020 Democratic hopeful Julian Castro likely got the publicity he wanted for himself and his sibling when he released donor information in […]

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Manufactured Housing Independents Ponder, New Manufactured Home Hall of Fame

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  There are several nonprofits that began with noble motivation and useful purposes.  But when conglomerates with their own agenda begin to coop those nonprofits with subtly or self-evident agendas, the time has come to ask the question, is it time for manufactured housing independents to form their own national

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Housing Crisis – Metro ABC News Media Spotlights Modular Home Solution

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ABC 7 is doing a periodic series of reports dubbed “Building a Better Bay Area.”  Their promo said in part that “All this week we are looking at the Bay Area’s housing crisis,” speaking of San Francisco Bay, that covers cities like Oakland, CA. Among their reports last week was

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MHProNews Errata, Gaming the System, and What’s Coming Next

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  When someone pushes for accountability, they too should be accountable. That’s only fair, right? There are three topics in the headline, each will be addressed in sequence in this article.   Yesterday, a glitch on our end caused articles still being drafted – and therefore, incomplete – to become

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Pain Before Gain, Kevin O’Leary, Trade War “Starting to Work,” plus Manufactured Home Stock Updates

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Michael Pillsbury with the Hudson Institute.  Larry Kudlow on President Donald J. Trump’s economic advisory team.  Investor, business man, and Shark Tank star Kevin O’Leary, who has done business in China for years.  There are plenty of voices weighing in on the U.S. China trade war. The Fed has signaled

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FEMA’s Largest Manufactured Home Community Opens, Updates, Video

By / / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), as well as ABC 10 and the Chico Enterprise Record are among the sources that report that FEMA’s new manufactured home community for some 110 households displaced by the Camp Fire disaster is ready for occupancy.     As the video shows, these homes have

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Bombshells! Former HUD Manufactured Housing Program Administrator Bill Matchneer, Cavco’s Manuel Santana Statements

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    “Pay more attention to what people do than what they say.”  –   Marty Lavin, J.D., manufactured home industry veteran of retail, community and finance, MHI award winner.   “Follow the money.” –   Marty Lavin, J.D.    “…Hypocrisy anyone?”   –   Frank Rolfe, Manufactured Housing Institute National Community Council

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Interest Rate Shift – Reason for Manufactured Home and other Housing Seekers to Buy Now?

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On Friday, left-of-center CNBC noted that the average rate for a 30-year fixed rate mortgage hit 3.70 percent. That’s the lowest it has been in three years.   A few points to make before diving into the meat of the data from CNBC. ·        In years gone by, rising interest

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Prosperity Now’s “Manufactured Housing Policy Wins” List, Understanding Moving Pieces in MHVille

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  Last week, Prosperity Now, formerly known as CFED, published their list of “I’M HOME 2019 State Manufactured Housing Policy Wins.”  Their release encouraged sharing, which is useful to manufactured housing industry professionals, advocates, and other interested parties to thoroughly understand as part of the sometimes-complex dynamics at work in

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“Body Blow to Farmers and Ranchers,” Manufactured Home Customers, plus Manufactured Housing Stock Updates

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Regrettably, the manufactured housing industry lacks some of the type of accurate, granular data that so many other industries get from trade associations. As MHProNews has previously reported, MHI has made arguably errant or misleading claims on several issues that ought to be data-driven. That said, there is anecdotal evidence

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President Trump Cancels Visit to Manufactured Home Community After Dayton, El Paso Shooting Sprees

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In the wake of attacks on unarmed civilians in El Paso, TX and Dayton, OH, the White House announced that a planned trip today to The Villages in Florida has been cancelled.   The Villages are a 55-plus land-lease community that includes sections of manufactured home and others with conventional

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Manufactured Hypocrisy Institute – MHI Raised Fine Quotes, Points, But What About Actual Performance?

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  Some documents merit more than one look.  On July 10, 2019 the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) produced a report that could have been written by a new writer being groomed for MHProNews. It raised several fine points.  Let’s look at a few of them.   “As Department of Housing

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Chinese Communists Strike Back, Stocks Worst Day 2019, plus Manufactured Home Stock Updates

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Have markets hit bottom since the latest round of U.S. China trade blows?  Time will tell, but the worst day of 2019 has just occurred.  That said, as the chart at the left indicates, the markets are still up overall for 2019, and year-over-year are still plus too.  Almost all

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Outrageous Manufactured Home Production Decline Persists – When Will Manufactured Housing Institute, ‘Big Boy Brands,’ Act? June 2019 Data

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  The headline sums it up. It is now month 10 of year-over-year (YoY) declines in production and shipments of new HUD Code manufactured homes.   This morning, MHProNews posted a significant report linked below on ‘official word’ from one of the top 3 brands in manufactured housing, Skyline Champion. 

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Skyline Champion CEO Mark Yost on Manufactured Housing Market, SKY Performance, Analysis

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On August 3, 2019 the transcript of the Skyline Champion conference call was published.   Participants in that conference call were reported by Seeking Alpha as follows. Skyline Champion Corporation (NYSE:SKY) Q2 2019 Earnings Conference Call August 1, 2019 8:00 AM ET Company Participants Mark Yost – CEO Laurie Hough

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El Paso Walmart Shooter’s Manifesto Text, Understanding Tragedy, Getting to Root Causes

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  Disclosure. On Friday, this writer became one of the ever growing number of new citizens of the United States via the naturalization process. Although my land of origin is not Latin American, several of the items in the El Paso Walmart shooter’s manifesto would arguably apply to me and

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Historic Bush – AOC Losses, Axelrod on Liz Warren’s ‘Brilliant’ Campaign, Kevin McCarthy’s House Plan, MHVille Review

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  Right or wrong, like it or hate it, business and politics to a large degree have become inseparable in America in 2019. So at least a minimum level of engagement and understanding are useful to those professionals who seek business as a career and/or for investment purposes.   In

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Conglomerate People Love, Hate – Google’s ‘Bias,’ 2020, Investing, and Manufactured Housing

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  “There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America,” – William ‘Bill’ Clinton (D), 42nd President of the United States (POTUS), first inaugural address, per Yale Law School.   “The System is Rigged.” – Donald J. Trump (R), 45th President of the United States (POTUS), statement

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Kudlow on Deepening U.S.-China Trade War, plus Manufactured Home Stock Updates

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Markets and investors prefer certainty to uncertainty. So the announcement by President Trump of more tariffs on China’s products, and possibly additional and higher tariffs yet to come, provided a good dose of uncertainty. On a day when stocks continued to slide, as did most manufactured home connected tracked stocks,

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Celebrating Citizenship, USCIS Naturalization Ceremony, and MHVille

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Yesterday afternoon in the mailbox was a letter informing us that today at 10 AM in Tampa, FL that Soheyla Kovach, a near-daily contributor to MHProNews, was to appear for her citizenship ceremony.   U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is USCIS for short. Their staff has routinely been friendly and

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