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
Anna Bahney’s bio in brief says that she is: “a writer for CNN covering investments and real estate, focusing on investments in traditional, alternative, real estate and cryptocurrency markets.” CNN reported tonight that “Housing is on a tear.” That is demonstrably true for conventional housing, but why not more affordable
Entirely missing from the ‘debate’ between Doug Ryan and Lesli Gooch via American Banker about Ryan’s charge that Berkshire Hathaway owned Clayton Homes has a monopoly over manufactured housing was any mention of three key pieces of evidence. That evidence? 1) CEO Kevin Clayton of Clayton Homes video interview and
Attorney turned award-winning journalist Glen Greenwald ripped lawmakers and the tech giants in another news analysis on the topic of censorship. Some Democrats are pushing the tech titans for more censorship, Greenwald observed. Some Republicans alleged in recent hearings with Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter’s Jack Dorsey and Google’s Sundar Pichai
In what looks like a case of an “over the target” reaction, one or more individuals associated with the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) “listening session” on 3.25.2021 took the extraordinary step of cutting off one of the presenters who was pointedly connecting dots and evidence that unmasked what Mark
As Robert F. Kennedy Jr and others have previously the case, when national tragedies occur, investigations routinely follow. So why is it that a full year after President Donald J. Trump declared a national emergency for what he called “the China Virus,” Americans have still not been officially told by
“Don’t you know, little fool You never can win Use your mentality Wake up to reality…” – Lyrics sung by Frank Sinatra, per Lyric Find. Certain habits and illicit attractions – no matter how appealing – can be prevent needed or healthy changes. What keeps someone from ‘waking up to
“Softwood lumber prices are now about 112% higher than they were a year ago and have jumped 10% in just the past week, according to Random Lengths. Increased demand for single-family housing, much of it driven by the coronavirus pandemic, has housing starts up 30% year over year, according to
Lesli Gooch, Ph.D., CEO of the Berkshire Hathaway-Clayton Homes backed Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) said in previously filed comments that “The first 3-year period of the GSEs’ Duty to Serve process has ended, and the Enterprises are still making no progress in actually purchasing chattel loans.” Gooch also said: “…MHI
