There is a widespread acknowledgement by experts and pundits of the expanding affordable housing crisis who oddly seem to routinely miss the root causes of problems are demonstrably worse today than at the turn of the century. Recent reporting below by the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), and from Freddie …
A good turn of a phrase or image is proven to stick for some time. Perhaps that explains why the report on 5.7.2021 from Fannie Mae to MHProNews brought to mind the colorful recent Issues and Perspective image that the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) President and CEO …
A presentation by former Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) Vice President Jason Boehlert has surfaced. Boehlert left MHI and was replaced by Lesli Gooch, who later became MHI’s CEO. Boehlert’s power-point pitch-deck slides shared data from MHI that perhaps inadvertently, but nevertheless clearly, revealed just how badly the industry’s manufactured home …
If your firm, or that of one of your industry colleagues, are among those that are having a hard time filling job openings, the latest report from the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) makes something clear. You are not alone. A record high number of job openings are going …
Under the headline report entitled “Regulatory Capture: Systematic and Institutionalized Corruption of Regulators under Neoliberal Regime” is this quote. “Regulatory bodies, like the people who comprise them…mellow, and in old age…they become, with some exceptions, either an arm of the industry they are regulating or senile.” John Kenneth Galbraith Let’s …
The following press release to MHProNews is from the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) about an Alternative Construction (AC) letter issued by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Office of Manufactured Housing Programs (OMHP) on May 5, 2021. TO: MHARR MANUFACTURERS MHARR STATE AFFILIATES MHARR TECHNICAL REVIEW …
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“As President, Fleetwood Homes, Inc. at CAVCO INDUSTRIES INC., Charles E. Lott made $856,073 in total compensation,” said Salary. “Of this total $250,000 was received as a salary, $527,860 was received as a bonus, $0 was received in stock options, $76,970 was awarded as stock and $1,243 came from other …
Instead of a line-by-line fisking of Jessica Wildlife’s popular observations, data, and rationale via Medium on her theme – “We Can’t Afford to Live Anymore, and The Rich Are Gaslighting Us” with her subtitle “It’s doing serious damage” – this report and analysis will present her thesis in full. After …
In a news update from the Texas Manufactured Housing Association (TMHA) to MHProNews was the following report on May 3, 2021. TMHA created a monthly tracking tool to see how HUD Code manufactured home builders perform when compared to the broader conventional housing market. In April the answer was a …
Roughly once a month, Mark Weiss, J.D., President and CEO of the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) pens an “Issues and Perspectives” (IP) which are laced with facts and evidence. Each column demonstrates his mix of a sharp wit, keen legal and other insights, and/or an equally …
There are several websites that provided employees, past and present, and opportunity to sound off on the company that they work for in a fashion that may avoid retaliation. Per 122 reviews on Indeed, the average rating is 2.5 out of 5. Glass Door’s update 4 days ago is only …
The following information on the serious surge in HUD Code manufactured home production and shipments for March 2021 has been provided by the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) to MHProNews. MHARR cites their sources, which are those used by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), …
Stating the obvious can be clarifying. There are no perfect presidents. Be it George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, or any other president, none were perfect. Once imperfection and the human condition are admitted, a look at President Donald J. Trump’s term in office — …
Jonathan Stempel in WHTC and Reuters published an item on April 29, 2021 5:27 PM under the headline: “Factbox: Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway at a glance.” The articles says it was edited by “Diane Craft and Steve Orlofsky.” Stempel’s article is supposed to be a preview of facts and statements …
Warren Buffett said about Clayton Homes, “We are in no hurry to record income, have enormous balance-sheet strength, and believe that over the long-term the economics of holding our consumer paper are superior to what we can now realize through securitization. So Clayton has begun to retain its loans.” That …
“The housing crisis is beyond desperate; this development will provide high quality homes at a starting price of $200,000,” said Jennifer Tsang. “These are not trailers, these are manufactured homes.” According to CBC News, Cygnet Investments “has been trying to develop the 436-hectare property for nine years.” Jennifer Tsang, with …
In a media release on 4.27.2021, Deer Valley Corporation (DVC) (OTCMKTS: DVLY) announced the following “short form merger.” Following this press release will be additional information on Peerless Homes Corporation and on Deer Valley. Deer Valley Corporation Announces Completion of a Short Form Merger With Deer Valley Merger Sub, Inc. …
Each aspect of the headline will be addressed in this lemons or lemonade examination of the decades of mendacious hypocrisy used by America’s so-called corporate and political elites, much of which are on full display this week. For decades, American working class, middle class, retirees, independent smaller business owners – …
Comments and insights from Sun Communities Inc. (SUI) in their new 1st quarter 2021 earnings call, shown further below, correctly raised reasons to look at recent RV industry data to compare it with what is occurring in manufactured housing. The following is from the March 2021 RV Industry Association (RVIA) …
The Globe Newswire and Yahoo Finance on 4.27.2021 are the sources for the following segments of two different press releases that name The Carlyle Group Inc and Apollo Global Management, Inc., among others in a legal probe on behalf of shareholders. The Carlyle Group Inc (NASDAQ:CG) and Apollo Global Management, …
