Manufactured and Modular Housing News

  People invest in, open or maintain a business with certain goals in mind. Among them is to serve a slice of the public, and for ‘white hat’ operations, to earn a profit honorably in some form or fashion. The ways that honest profit can be earned are as many […]

  Retailers. Communities. Have you noticed how relatively quiet word from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has been in the past 6 months? Yesterday, June 11, marked the first six months of Director Kathleen L. Kraninger taking the helm from acting director Mick Mulvaney. Mulvaney has since moved on

In a media release, the News Media Alliance published a study that examines ‘Anti-Competitive Behavior’ and what it costs their industry. This obliquely impacts every American, and in several ways touches upon issues that matter to the manufactured housing industry too. Testimony has taken place before Congress on this topic.

  With enough patience, facts and patterns in dispute often reveal themselves more clearly to those with an open mind who are honestly seeking clarity. By definition, the closed-minded can’t be reasoned with. This report will have two primary components. The first will be from the recent and positive Innovative

WAVY is one of several mainstream news outlets that came up in a Google search for “Innovative Housing Showcase” (IHS) and “Manufactured Homes” on 6.10.2019. That’s more than a full week after the event – which ran from June 1-5, 2019 – began. The WAVY report was fine, with a

Country music star John Rich and ‘The Five’ comic co-host Greg Gutfeld co-wrote the new song, which is posted further below. 96.9 the Kat cited these as some of the song’s ‘catchy’ lyrics. “Shut up about politics ain’t nothing but a big pile of dirty tricks I’m tired of all

On a day when the largely markets rose, an interesting item to look at tonight is a tie-in with the tariff controversy.  One will recall that Kevin Clayton decided to weigh in on the tariff issue, ICYMI, or need a refresher, see that linked here. On the same left-of-center business

Starting at about the 37:18 time mark on the video below, Governor Kristi Noem, the first female governor for the state of South Dakota, is where her part of the program begins. Noem addressed the Turning Point USA Young Women’s Leadership Summit (YWLS) 2019 on June 9, 2019. She didn’t

“Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson has kept a relatively low profile since taking office, but he’s excited to show the American people what he’s been doing,” said the Daily Caller, a right-of-center media outlet. “The Daily Caller News Foundation traveled to the Innovative Housing Showcase to see what

  The ubiquitous Drudge Report linked up an interesting report from France 24 that said that there is another surge in interest in George Orwell and his writing, including the classic novel, 1984. Interesting, because MHProNews has recently used quotes from Orwell in various reports to spark thoughts that insightful

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Ben Carson, M.D., has demonstrably done much since taking his oath of office to advance a proper understanding of manufactured homes. In fairness, his predecessor Julian Castro, made a video that praised manufactured housing too. While the next video interview with then

For those new or returning to this business daily manufactured housing markets feature found only MHProNews, 2 to 3 minutes reading the left-right headlines from CNN and Fox Business can go a long way to keeping professionals informed on national and global issues that often move investors to act. There’s

Senator Elizabeth Warren (MA-D) could be helpful as well as harmful to the manufactured housing industry on several levels. The same could be true of the new darling of the political left, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-D). Before diving into specifics on both further below, let’s begin with statements from Warren’s 2020

  Among the sources for the report that follows are MHEC, MHI, and their members. Let’s begin by pondering MHI’s page on zoning, which has no date on their article/post. That is being provided in its entirety below under fair use guidelines for media under this fact check and analysis.

By presidential proclamation and custom, June is National Home Ownership Month. So it was fitting to set the dates for the Innovative Housing Showcase at the first of June. The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) media relations (“Office of Public Affairs”) provided the following to the Daily Business

The markets rallied on word that a deal may be close to done between the U.S. and Mexico on the issue of controlling the flow of illegal immigrants through their country that are coming to the United States. Vice President Mike Pence said in the last hour that there’s progress,

  There are times that simplicity is useful. Consider these facts. · There is an affordable housing crisis. · HUD Secretary Ben Carson and thousands of others say that local zoning and placement (barrier) issues are harming the nation. · Conventional builders (National Association of Home Builders, factory builders, others)

  The Daily Business News on MHProNews recently spotlighted the video interview with Mark A. Calabria, Ph.D., the new head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency. That report with a video interview with him is linked below. Dr. Mark Calabria, FHFA Director Interview, Front Lines of GSE Reform, Manufactured Housing

  “Thursday marks the 75th anniversary of D-Day, a major turning point in World War II. It helped lead to the defeat of Nazi forces in Europe. More than 150,000 American, British and Canadian troops landed on the shores of northern France on June 6, 1944. About 2,500 of the

From President Donald J. Trump’s vantage point, as he has said before, he’s “playing with the bank’s money.” The market and the economy are miles ahead of where they were 2½ years ago. It appears that part of his strategy is to get as much as he can get done