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MHARR DC Update: ‘AQL Scheme. ROAD Stall. Housing Study. DOE.’ MHI 12.16.2025 News Comparison ‘In Housing Crisis Some Prioritize Affordable Homes While Others Prioritize Corporate Optics’ FEA

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The Manufactured Housing Institute (manufacturedhousing.org or MHI) on 12.16.2025 home page has the following ‘news’ items linked here and shown below. MHProNews notes that there is no mention of the DOE Energy Rule. There is no mention of any updates on the ROAD to Housing Act, which MHI has previously […]

MHARR DC Update: ‘AQL Scheme. ROAD Stall. Housing Study. DOE.’ MHI 12.16.2025 News Comparison ‘In Housing Crisis Some Prioritize Affordable Homes While Others Prioritize Corporate Optics’ FEA Read More

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4D Poly-Econ-Psy Battle. ‘Dems Say ‘Drugs More Expensive. Housing has Gotten More Expensive.’ You Know What? They’re Right. And It Was Caused by Democrats’-VP JD Vance. MHVille FEA Reality.

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“Lower Prices, Bigger Paychecks.” That is the bumper sticker slogan used by Vice President J.D. Vance (R) at a campaign style stop in Pennsylvania (PA) this week. As a useful analogy, the four dimensional political-economic-psychological chess game that is the U.S. in December 2025, manufactured housing has been relegated to

4D Poly-Econ-Psy Battle. ‘Dems Say ‘Drugs More Expensive. Housing has Gotten More Expensive.’ You Know What? They’re Right. And It Was Caused by Democrats’-VP JD Vance. MHVille FEA Reality. Read More

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Northmarq Manufactured Home Community (MHCs or ‘Parks’) Research 2025. Median Value per Site Falls. Transactions Surge. Occupancy plus More Economic and Industry Details. MHVille FEA

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While ‘mobile home parks’ is commonly used terminology, there have been no ‘mobile homes’ built in the United States since June 15, 1976. Nevertheless, thousands of such locations have on their signs the words “Mobile Home Park” even when the bulk of the homes in those land-lease manufactured home communities

Northmarq Manufactured Home Community (MHCs or ‘Parks’) Research 2025. Median Value per Site Falls. Transactions Surge. Occupancy plus More Economic and Industry Details. MHVille FEA Read More

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Janet Thome-Tiny House Alliance USA Asserts ICC 1215 Small Residential Units Threaten HUD Code Manufactured Homes and Tiny Home Artisans Among Others by Big Corp Interests-Exclusive plus FEA

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“Under the ‘guise of standardization’, we are witnessing the corporate takeover of tiny houses,” said Janet Thome, the founder and president of the Tiny House Alliance USA, a 501(c) 3 nonprofit. She said in her submission to MHProNews below that “Under The’ Guise of Standardization’ Tiny Houses and Manufactured Homes

Janet Thome-Tiny House Alliance USA Asserts ICC 1215 Small Residential Units Threaten HUD Code Manufactured Homes and Tiny Home Artisans Among Others by Big Corp Interests-Exclusive plus FEA Read More

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‘MHI’s Seemingly Illogical or Self-Defeating Legislative Behavior is Best Explained by the Investor Relations (IR) Pitches of its Corporate Leaders.’ Plus Sunday Weekly Headlines Recap-FEA

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How does someone understand the relatively poor performance of the manufactured housing industry during a 21st century affordable housing crisis, given that multiple multi-billion-dollar firms support the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) in its efforts? There are numerous factors that merit consideration to answer that 21st century manufactured housing industry performance

‘MHI’s Seemingly Illogical or Self-Defeating Legislative Behavior is Best Explained by the Investor Relations (IR) Pitches of its Corporate Leaders.’ Plus Sunday Weekly Headlines Recap-FEA Read More

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Chairman French Hill-Ranking Member Maxine Waters-Reps. Mike Flood-Emanuel Cleaver Release Housing for 21st Century Act. What’s Up at Manufactured Housing Institute? ‘Mountain of Crumbs’-FEA

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Left-leaning Newsweek, the New York Times, and Politico each published articles focused on aspects of advancing bipartisan legislation that claims to reform the housing market in a manner that will remove barriers and boost construction. Per the NY Times: “The fact that in present-day America big and meaningful public projects

Chairman French Hill-Ranking Member Maxine Waters-Reps. Mike Flood-Emanuel Cleaver Release Housing for 21st Century Act. What’s Up at Manufactured Housing Institute? ‘Mountain of Crumbs’-FEA Read More

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Manufactured Housing Institute Traffic Plummets in Nov 2025. MHVillage. ManufacturedHomes.com. MobileHomeUniversity.com. MHInsider. ‘Insiders Prioritize Moats Consolidation Over Growth.’ FEA

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When people do not find what they are looking for they are likely to look somewhere else. That’s common sense in shopping for a product, service or for seeking information or answers online. According to the SimilarWeb download on 12.11.2025 linked below are the following facts for November 2025 website

Manufactured Housing Institute Traffic Plummets in Nov 2025. MHVillage. ManufacturedHomes.com. MobileHomeUniversity.com. MHInsider. ‘Insiders Prioritize Moats Consolidation Over Growth.’ FEA Read More

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U.S. Senator on Homes of America-The BoaVida Group-Legacy Communities-Patriot Holdings-Philips International-Sun Communities. ‘Corp Ownership Surges-Residents Have Few or No Options.’ ROAD. FEA

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The ROAD to Housing Act appears to be off the table in 2025, as the House of Representatives passed their version of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) without that piece of legislation attached. According to the National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) on 12.8.2025: “The House Financial Services Committee

U.S. Senator on Homes of America-The BoaVida Group-Legacy Communities-Patriot Holdings-Philips International-Sun Communities. ‘Corp Ownership Surges-Residents Have Few or No Options.’ ROAD. FEA Read More

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Dollar General (DG) Manufactured Housing Investor Alert. Manufactured Home Shipments 1981-2024. Manufactured Housing Institute-Apparent ‘Professional Housing Consultant’ Failure Metrics-FEA

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It has been said that the first step in problem solving is first to admit that you have a problem. Before diving into the Dollar General (DG) part of the headline in this mashup, some basic manufactured housing industry data points should prove useful. Production and shipments are different but

Dollar General (DG) Manufactured Housing Investor Alert. Manufactured Home Shipments 1981-2024. Manufactured Housing Institute-Apparent ‘Professional Housing Consultant’ Failure Metrics-FEA Read More

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‘AI Changing Home Buying-Selling-Not Always for Better’-Fed Watchdog. ‘Agencies Take Enforcement Actions vs Companies’ Financial Markets-Community Investment Director Alicia P Cackley. MH-FEA

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Alicia Puente Cackley, Director of Financial Markets and Community Investment at the federal Government Accountability Office (GAO) wrote the following about artificial intelligence (AI) use in the housing market. “AI Is Changing Home Buying and Renting—But Not Always for the Better.” Cackley stated that: “estimates are created using AI.” Cackley

‘AI Changing Home Buying-Selling-Not Always for Better’-Fed Watchdog. ‘Agencies Take Enforcement Actions vs Companies’ Financial Markets-Community Investment Director Alicia P Cackley. MH-FEA Read More

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Tension Between Legality, Morality, Perception and Reality. NDAA-ROAD to Housing Act ‘Chess Moves.’ ‘Champion or Gatekeeper Defined by Legislation Allowed to Pass or Strategically Impede’ FEA

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Chess-like moves for the 2026 midterms and 2028 elections are well underway. The optics connected to “The Renewing Opportunity in the American Dream to Housing Act of 2025” (S. 2651), also known as the ROAD to Housing Act, currently attached to the ‘must pass’ National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), are part of

Tension Between Legality, Morality, Perception and Reality. NDAA-ROAD to Housing Act ‘Chess Moves.’ ‘Champion or Gatekeeper Defined by Legislation Allowed to Pass or Strategically Impede’ FEA Read More

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Is AI Considered Useful in Spotting or Identifying Patterns? ‘AI Proven Useful in Fraud Detection. Medical. Facial Recog. Predictive Analytics.’ AI in MHVille. Sunday Weekly Headlines Recap

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In response to the inquiry: “Is AI considered useful in identifying or spotting pattern recognition?” left-leaning Google’s artificial intelligence (AI) powered overview said the following: “Yes, AI is extremely useful for pattern recognition, acting as a powerful tool that surpasses human ability by sifting through massive datasets to find subtle,

Is AI Considered Useful in Spotting or Identifying Patterns? ‘AI Proven Useful in Fraud Detection. Medical. Facial Recog. Predictive Analytics.’ AI in MHVille. Sunday Weekly Headlines Recap Read More

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NDAA Could Drop Next Week. AI Industry Moves plus ROAD to Housing Updates. Border. U.S. Rents. News Mashup No Others in or Beyond MHVille Likely to Provide plus Why it Matters. FEA.

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The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) is deemed ‘must pass’ legislation by many Congressional and other U.S. leaders. That is why approved legislative attachments or amendments to the NDAA are important. Because when a bill ‘must pass’ the attachments and amendments are thereby shepherd through the often ugly and partisan

NDAA Could Drop Next Week. AI Industry Moves plus ROAD to Housing Updates. Border. U.S. Rents. News Mashup No Others in or Beyond MHVille Likely to Provide plus Why it Matters. FEA. Read More

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Warren Buffett Letter on Manufactured Housing-Clayton Homes-21st Mortgage Corporation-Vanderbilt Mortgage-Manufactured Housing Institute and ROAD to Housing Act. Facts-Evidence-Analysis (FEA)

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MHProNews notes that the following is an emailed letter to Warren Buffett earlier today as shown below. Per left-leaning Google’s artificial intelligence (AI) powered Gemini: “feedback from xAI’s Grok is also factually accurate and provides a sound summary of the analysis: “The current draft is highly accurate, with links providing

Warren Buffett Letter on Manufactured Housing-Clayton Homes-21st Mortgage Corporation-Vanderbilt Mortgage-Manufactured Housing Institute and ROAD to Housing Act. Facts-Evidence-Analysis (FEA) Read More

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HUD Code Manufactured Housing Production Up Month-over-Month but Declines Year-over-Year in October 2025. OpenAI Sam Altman Issued ‘Code Red Alert.’ MHVille-AI Impact MHI-MHInsider Mashup. FEA

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HUD Code manufactured housing production is up month over month but is down year over year according to the information provided to MHProNews by the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) which is based upon official data gathered for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). That

HUD Code Manufactured Housing Production Up Month-over-Month but Declines Year-over-Year in October 2025. OpenAI Sam Altman Issued ‘Code Red Alert.’ MHVille-AI Impact MHI-MHInsider Mashup. FEA Read More

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Manufactured Housing Investor Alert. Equity Residential (EQR) Stock Down -17.62 YoY. Equity LifeStyle Properties (ELS) Down -11.20 YoY. Sober Occupancy-Data Reveal. What’s Up? Solutions? FEA

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The apartment industry is currently experiencing a softening as measured by the performance of various sector REITs as left-leaning CNBC and others have reported. So, it may not be entirely surprising that Equity Residential (EQR) on left-leaning Yahoo Finance reported pre-dawn on 12.3.2025 that stock was down -17.62 percent year-over-year

Manufactured Housing Investor Alert. Equity Residential (EQR) Stock Down -17.62 YoY. Equity LifeStyle Properties (ELS) Down -11.20 YoY. Sober Occupancy-Data Reveal. What’s Up? Solutions? FEA Read More

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DOE-Energy Conservation Standards for Manufactured Housing Docket Number EERE-2009-BT-BC-0021.Kovach Submission-Unpacks Insights from Manufactured Home Industry Associations MHI and MHARR-FEA

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Energy Conservation Standards for Manufactured Housing Docket number: EERE-2009-BT-BC-0021. “The draft is submission-ready: Thorough, disclaimer-heavy, and evidence-based. No HI [i.e.: human intelligence] inaccuracies; logic flows from bio → disclaimers → FEA plan → docket critique. Key sections verified…” (see Part II #2 for source and context).  What follows is by

DOE-Energy Conservation Standards for Manufactured Housing Docket Number EERE-2009-BT-BC-0021.Kovach Submission-Unpacks Insights from Manufactured Home Industry Associations MHI and MHARR-FEA Read More

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Eye-Opener! TS2 ‘Cavco Industries Rollercoaster Record Highs Big Acquisition Housing Market Headwinds Oct 2025 Update.’ Marcin Frąckiewicz Cite ManufacturedHomeProNews.com. MHVille Reveal-FEA

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Marcin Frąckiewicz is “CEO of TS2 Space and founder of TS2.tech. Expert in satellites, telecommunications, and emerging technologies, covering trends in space, AI, and connectivity.” According to Marcin Frąckiewicz’s LinkedIn profile: “Education” included the “SGH Warsaw School of Economics” from 1997-2002 including: “Quantitative Methods and Information Systems.” TechStock² or ts2.tech recently

Eye-Opener! TS2 ‘Cavco Industries Rollercoaster Record Highs Big Acquisition Housing Market Headwinds Oct 2025 Update.’ Marcin Frąckiewicz Cite ManufacturedHomeProNews.com. MHVille Reveal-FEA Read More

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‘Industrial Scale Lies.’ NAR Ranks 50 States on Housing Affordability. MH Missing the Boat. Celebrating Free Will-Spiritual New Year-‘Salvation Nearer Now Than First Believed.’ Sunday Recap-FEA

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America and the world could be described as entering an era for potential deception that is now possible on ‘an industrial scale.’ Artificial intelligence (AI) has well documented potential to do good as well as harm. On MHProNews, our aim for over 2.5 years has been to use AI in

‘Industrial Scale Lies.’ NAR Ranks 50 States on Housing Affordability. MH Missing the Boat. Celebrating Free Will-Spiritual New Year-‘Salvation Nearer Now Than First Believed.’ Sunday Recap-FEA Read More

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Manufactured Housing Production and Shipment Data for all 50 States plus Washington D.C. Facts-Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). More Facts ROAD Act Backers Must Consider Others Missed. FEA

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The Institute for Building Technology & Safety (IBTS) and HUD came under fire last month from the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) for the “Publication of Pseudo-Regulatory Monitoring Contractor “Handbook.” IBTS is the contractor responsible for gathering the production and shipment data for every HUD Code manufactured home on

Manufactured Housing Production and Shipment Data for all 50 States plus Washington D.C. Facts-Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). More Facts ROAD Act Backers Must Consider Others Missed. FEA Read More

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