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
American Enterprise Institute (AEI) Housing Center provided MHProNews with the news item below earlier today. AEI’s Director Edward Pinto, J.D., report stated the following. Nowcast: 10 metros most threatened by high numbers of FHA delinquencies (February 2021 Update) While Atlanta and Houston are the metros most at risk from
In a post-COVID19 America where some have been partially locked down for significant periods of time, certain questions should be asked. Among them is this one. Are dangers increasing for management, staff and residents in manufactured home land lease communities? Fox 5 in Atlanta reported on the arrest of “Alberto
Rush Limbaugh died last month, but the Rush Limbaugh Show will continue airing for the “long term” with rotating guest hosting the Rush Limbaugh Show. Those guest hosts will air audio clips of the popular Limbaugh – a revered conservative broadcaster – mixed in with their own commentary and discussion
As our industry’s professionals should know, words and their meaning matter. When you challenge special interests and the system, expect the system to push back. A reporter for the left-leaning New York Times discussed the origins and meaning of the term “deep state” in a video interview. The reporter explained
Topic two in our headline is tonight’s featured focus further below. Regarding the slide reported today in existing housing sales by the National Association of Realtors (NAR), that spells possible opportunities hiding in plain sight. From the National Association of Realtors (NAR) press release earlier today to MHProNews and others
The Warren Buffett ‘dark money’ supported Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) has released a report entitled “Cashing in on Our Homes.” Left-leaning Common Dreams is one of several platforms spotlighting IPS’ “Cashing in on Our Homes” subtitled “Billionaire Landlords Profit While Millions Face Eviction.” IPS ironically – or tactically?
Sometimes the best place to hide is in plain sight. A Psy-Op or psyop is defined by left-leaning Wikipedia as follows. “Psychological operations (PSYOP) are operations to convey selected information and indicators to audiences to influence their emotions, motives, and objective reasoning, and ultimately the behavior of governments, organizations, groups,
For Henry “Simons, the most important policy change to limit poverty and inequality was “the elimination of monopoly in all its forms.’’” So says a pull quote by Federal Reserve researchers James A. Schmitz Jr. and David Fettig. A few more pull quotes will tee up this MHProNews report and analysis
In a case filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas, Galveston Division, twenty state attorneys general joined Texas for a total of 21 states that are suing over the Biden executive action that aimed at cancelling the Keystone Pipeline. Biden “issued Executive Order 13990, which
James A. Schmitz Jr., Arilton Teixeira, and Mark L. J. Wright, published and provided the power point slide presentation that follows as one of the references in a 2020 published Minneapolis Federal Reserve report on the harm caused by monopolistic practices. The Schmitz-Teixeira-Wright trio cite classic antitrust (i.e.: antimonopoly) arguments
Unlike the National Association of Realtors (NAR), the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB), the Recreational Vehicle Industry Association (RVIA), or the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR), the Arlington, VA based Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) makes getting accurate and reliable information about HUD Code Manufactured Homes difficult at
