Notice to MHProNews readers. Stating the obvious, evidence-based reporting that provides news with expert analysis has its advantages. With the passage of time, the accumulation of years of research, testimony, third-party reports, plus industry trends, several things have become apparent. While there are financially significant and politically connected players in …
The high cost to our nation and its citizens caused by NIMBYite thinking – ‘Not in My Back Yard’ or NIMBY – has been well documented by researchers such as Chang Tai Hsieh and Enrico Moretti. In brief, Hsieh and Moretti are nonpartisan National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) experts whose evidence …
That corruption exists in business, nongovernmental organizations (e.g.: nonprofits), and among public officials would not likely be questioned by most news-savvy individuals. The question is how well does mainstream media do at consistently exposing such corruption? What does media do when a story is stumbled upon, or falls in their …
“Roughly 33% of all of the Top 100 owners of mobile home parks in the U.S. went through our Boot Camp.” The word “our” is including in a marketing email for “Mobile Home University” (MHU) on 4.5.2021 from “Frank & Dave.” As thousands in the manufactured home profession know, that …
In a literal April Fool’s Day (4.1.2021) email to their members, the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) – with no apparent sense of irony – said: “MHI is currently reviewing the provisions of the [Biden-Harris White House] proposal to identify opportunities for manufactured housing and areas of concern for our members.” …
Manufactured home community owner Marge Clark previously told MHProNews that the single biggest competitor to the manufactured housing industry is subsidized housing. Federal Reserve researcher James A. Schmitz Jr and his colleagues have publicly and repeatedly accused HUD of working with builders – think private interests – to undermine manufactured …
The handling of the COVID19 pandemic and related public policies – including, but not limited to rushed vaccines where their makers were given legal protections against product liability – are being called one of the largest manipulative propaganda campaigns of modern times by its opponents. Of course, proponents of lockdowns …
In the current political climate, it can take courage and wit to speak out in even the measured tones that Adventure Homes’ Wally Comer has in exclusive comments about the labor market and more that are the focus of this report. MHProNews asked Adventure’s Comer, a Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) …
There are few things more impactful on our society in the last roughly 16 months than COVID19. It is no surprise that in our industry – and all other professions – that there are questions about how the coronavirus came to be. Or how COVID19 has been handled by various …
Washington, D.C., April 5, 2021 – The Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) reports that according to official statistics compiled on behalf of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), HUD Code manufactured housing industry year-over-year production declined again in February 2021. Just-released statistics indicate that HUD …
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There have been no mobile homes as such built in the U.S. in decades because the trailer house and mobile home industry were transformed by federal construction and safety standards established by Congress into HUD Code manufactured housing that officially began production on June 15, 1976. New manufactured home production …
“We’ve really been seeing a merger between big government and big business” said Andrew Surabian, former GOP White House strategist to SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Saturday, per right-of-center Breitbart. Surabian’s warnings from the right mirror warnings from the left that includes Dr. Naomi Wolf, Robert F. Kennedy Jr (see headline report …
Zacks Equity Research latest on Legacy Housing Corporation (LEGH) via Yahoo Finance reported that the firm has hit a 52-week high and is up sharply for the month. Zacks’ reports states that it considers Legacy Housing “a buy.” They explain why it is “a buy,” listing pros and cons applying …
“Their government/industry collaboration will use this system to manage the rage when Americans finally wake up to the fact that this outlaw gang has stolen our democracy, our civil rights, our country and way of life — while we huddled in orchestrated fear from a flu-like illness.” – Robert F. …
It is April 1, but this is not an April Fools gag. Webalizer reports a surge of thousands of hits from visitors associated with the federal government in March 2021. Sometimes an image, graphic, or picture are worth a 1,000 words. Tonight’s featured-focus will be a series of examples that …
“Advancing racial equity through manufactured housing” by Lesli McCollum Gooch, Ph.D., was published on March 08, 2021, 9:00 a.m. by National Mortgage News (NMN). In several respects Gooch’s “Advancing Racial Equity Through Manufactured Housing” is an impressive thought-piece, op-ed or “opinion” article by the CEO of the Manufactured Housing Institute …
Ask many manufactured housing veterans if they think that their industry is misunderstood, and do not be surprised when they casually answer ‘yes.’ So, information accuracy matters to manufactured home professionals, as well as to all other professions. Even that brief predicate sets the stage for new research by Edelman …
“Tony, I applaud the decision by [HUD] Secretary [Marcia] Fudge. Now is not the time to weaken FHA’s capacity to handle the economic situation challenges facing its 30-year book of business. Also reducing the MIP during the strongest seller’s market in history would be a huge mistake, as it would immediately …
Whatever someone might think, hope, dream, believe, or reject about the 2020 election and its presidential outcome, what is obvious is that President Donald J. Trump and his First Lady Melania Trump are not living at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20500. That said, the digs at Mar-a-Lago are …
The topic or legal category, per the Department of Justice (DOJ) media site, for the first of this series of federal reports is “Mortgage Fraud.” A series of press releases from DOJ and the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Office of Inspector General (OIG) will follow in sequence in this …
