High levels of immigration obviously lead to a need for more housing. According to a 1.10.2024 article on Governing, among the “Biggest Issues to Watch in 2024” was this snapshot. “State lawmakers will be rushing to address crime, AI, housing and a host of other issues – including growing budget […]
In the early 1980s when I entered the manufactured housing industry as a salesman there were designs and ideas that many if not most in manufactured housing pros today may have never seen or heard of firsthand. For instance. Some single section manufactured homes ‘back in the day’ featured high
In an op-ed published 2.25.2024 by the left-leaning Gannett owned Lakeland Ledger, which was amplified by the left-leaning MSN news aggregator service, a call was made for implementation of a “solution to the affordable housing crisis [that] is hiding in plain sight because existing laws aren’t being properly enforced.” Those
About a week ago, left-leaning Newsweek ran a story on manufactured housing by Omar Mohammed entitled: “Manufactured Homes Give Hope to Homebuyers: ‘Price Was a Big Thing’” It was the standard fare that such mainstream news articles that appear to promote manufactured housing might feature. Lower cost, surprising quality and
According to a letter on Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) letterhead, the pending Department of Energy (DOE) energy rule for HUD Code manufactured homes “will be severe” in its impact on manufactured housing. The MHI letter, the complete text of which is provided below, accused the DOE of creating its planned
Tech-friendly and pro-tech Dr. Joseph Mercola’s article on “The Transformative Potential of ChatGPT in Learning and Efficiency” provides his views, experiences, and cautionary notes on the use of AI or Artificial Intelligence. Mercola said in the report and analysis provided in Part I to MHProNews that he has had significant
This report with analysis will start with BisNow which published a report on 2.12.2024 authored by Olivia Lueckemeyer under the headline “Investors See ‘Huge Opportunity’ To Cash In On Stigma-Prone Manufactured Housing Sector.” Lueckemeyer’s article for BisNow said the following. “Some of the most profitable investments are in industries where
The Manufactured Housing Consensus Committee (MHCC) has voted to reject the “destructive” proposed Department of Energy (DOE) manufactured housing energy enforcement rule. So says the news release issued by the Washington, D.C. based Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR). Manufactured housing has just finished its worst year as measured
“People do not decide their futures, they decide their habits and their habits decide their futures.” – F. Matthias Alexander. To set the context for the exploratory expert analysis on the facts regarding manufactured homme production and shipments in all 50 United States, and Laurie Goodman with the Urban’s Institute
“I will now add what I do not like. First, the omission of a bill of rights providing clearly and without the aid of sophisms for freedom of religion, freedom of the press, protection against standing armies, restriction against monopolies, the eternal and unremitting force of the habeas corpus laws, and
Before diving into the JCNF’s survey featured below, a brief preface is useful. Big businesses routinely have an array of sources for information useful to their specific operation. Small businesses? Perhaps not so much. Similarly, employees of larger firms in manufactured housing – or other industries – routinely get fed
American and international history are routinely misunderstood and at times have been misrepresented in ways that impact personal and national interests to this day. For example, consider this partial list of well documented interference in the elections and/or internal government affairs by the U.S. in Chile, China before Communism, Guyana,
The Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) sent an email to industry members on 2.14.2024 under the headline: “Rep. Norman and 23 Additional House Members Urge the Appropriations Committee to Stop the DOE’s MH Standards in Final Spending Package.” That MHI email linked to a ‘news’ post on the MHI website which
“MHI Congratulates the 2024 Inductees to RV/MH Hall of Fame,” says a headline from an MHI ‘news’ email update on 2.14.2024. It appears that all of the manufactured housing inductees for the RV MH Hall of Fame have clear ties to the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI). The balance of that
“Total housing starts [i.e.: both single family and multi-family housing] for 2023 were 1.41 million, a 9% decline from the 1.55 million total from 2022. Single-family starts in 2023 totaled 945,000, down 6% from the previous year. Multifamily starts in 2023 totaled 469,000, down 14.4% compared to the previous year.”
The announced discovery of so-called “rare earth minerals” in Wyoming creates opportunities for companies, contractors, and employees involving in manufactured housing. Rare earth deposits in the U.S. are potential good news for current and potential domestic producers, including manufactured housing retailers, suppliers, developers, transport (“totters”), installers, and others emerged in
Tying together the latest Cavco Quarterly Earnings Call on 2.3.2024, provided below, with the famous line from the hit action movie National Treasure: “If there’s something wrong, those who have the ability to take action have the responsibility to take action” uttered by Nicholas Cage’s fictional character Benjamin Franklin Gates
“The rent is too damn high!” said Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD Marcia Fudge. That’s a reference to the campaign phrase popularized by former politician Jimmy McMillan, wrote theGrio’s Gerren Keith Gaynor in an article amplified by Yahoo. According to that source, Fudge said:
Imagine for the next several minutes being in the position of one of the remaining manufactured home producing (building) independents in the manufactured housing industry. Many of those independents are not publicly traded. But Nobility Homes is a public company. That means that Nobility is traded ‘over the counter’ (OTCQX)
During an interview with left-leaning ABC News on Thursday, Congressman Dan Goldman (D-NY) reacted to Special Counsel Robert Hur’s statement in his report that Joe Biden “did not remember, even within several years, when his son Beau died” by saying “Obviously, the President knows when his son died. … If he had
