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Andy Gedo’s LinkedIn profile says he is a “Partner at ManageAmerica.” They are on online property management platform, that cites manufactured housing as one of their specialties. They are active at Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) events, and per sources, an MHI member. To set the stage for the discussion that

Brookfield, Blackstone, ELS, and Sun Communities are all near the peak value of their stocks for the last year.  It’s an interesting backdrop to a day when the major markets and many other manufactured home industry connected stocks have fallen. That noted, our focus tonight is Facebook CEO Sheryl Sandberg’s

Some readers have asked the Daily Business News for MHProNews for an executive summary of why manufactured housing is underperforming compared to its historic norms. It has been a while since we’ve done cartoons or memes.  While these are meant to be a bit on the lighter side, the issues

This pro-industry trade media platform periodically spotlights “News through the lens of manufactured homes, and factory-built housing.” © We curate content you routinely will find no where else in manufactured housing, save right here on the Daily Business News on MHProNews. Why should this HUD award matter to MHVille professionals? 

MIT is the famous and widely respected Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  They recently provided an update to what they call their “living wage calculator.” The data shown is from CNBC based upon their use of MIT’s methodology. For those who look and say, ‘that’s too low,’ keep the following in

Let’s file tonight’s feature under ‘just for fun’ with a purpose.  Tonight’s short video provides tiny sense of why the American Dream is still attainable. On a good day for the markets, keep in mind that this isn’t something you could do in a truly socialist country. If you’re new,

Our publisher was laughing this morning after he read an email. When asked what the joke was, he replied by showing a pro-Manufactured Housing Institute trade media outlet that was announcing their ‘State of the Industry’ upcoming report. “The state of the industry can be summed up by statistics,” said

“Mark Anthony Calabria is the Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA). He was formerly the chief economist for Vice President Mike Pence,” per Wikipedia. A release by the FHFA on April 15, 2019 said in part that: “Dr. Mark Calabria Sworn In as Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency.”  Roll

There was no mention this evening of factory-home building when CNBC or some other mainstream business media reported that Berkshire Hathaway has taken a position valued at some $904 million dollars as of the close of the market on 5.15.2019.  But then most others aren’t as keen on factory-built housing,

It’s another day of broadly improving stock prices, clawing back some of the drop earlier in the week tat were driven in part over the U.S. China trade impasse.  So we look tonight at a geo-political hotspot.  With the U.S. sending a carrier back toward the Persian Gulf, B52s repositioned,

“Angelo R. Mozilo is the former chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Countrywide Financial until July 1, 2008,” according to Wikipedia. Put differently, Mozilo was near the eye of storm during the Housing and mortgage crisis that sent the economy and markets into a tailspin, causing the

“When you talk about monopolization claims, the main issue is exclusion, unfair exclusion,” John Roberti said. Roberti is the head of the Washington antitrust practice at the law firm Allen & Overy. “So all these companies are going to be asking themselves: Is there anything we are doing that is

The manufactured housing industry is now 7 months into a slump – a downturn. How is that possible, during an affordable housing crisis?  Is it incompetence?  Or something else? While controversial himself in mainstream media reports for a variety of reasons, prominent Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) member Frank Rolfe is

  In a media release to the Daily Business News on MHProNews, Legacy Housing Corporation (LEGH) provided the following snapshot last night of their 2019 first quarter results. In the release below, MHProNews has turned the quote brown and bold, to make it pop, as is often done here. Otherwise,

“Jackie DeAngelis breaks down the differences between capitalism versus socialism,” says Fox Business Network’s (FBN) YouTube page. More to the point, perhaps, is that this FBN video features a panel discussion that begins to unpack the issue of the rise in interest in socialism’s in the U.S. For those unfamiliar

As regular readers of this feature know, we steered clear of China-U.S. trade troubles for most of last week, even though that was a lead story among scores of market watchers.  Today, MHProNews has two stories that have dealt with China and U.S. trade, one earlier today – linked here

The cost of building and remodeling is about to rise – again, per CNBC.  Builders from coast to coast, which includes HUD Code and other factory-builders, order products for housing they construct that are often sourced offshore, including from China. So the tariff and trade war is about to hit