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“As Congress turns up the heat on companies like Facebook, they’re facing added pressure,” says Full Measure’s YouTube page. “Nearly every state has now joined an anti-trust investigation that could threaten the way the tech giants do business. Lisa Fletcher talks with the Attorney General for the District of Columbia, …
It goes without saying that manufactured housing is a subset of the larger American economy. As modest as the manufactured home industry may be today, it was not always so. Given the affordable housing crisis, the recognized quality that is documented by third-party research, and supervised by federally mandated inspections, …
Today is Veterans Day, a federal holiday that honors America’s military. Though Veterans Day is a federal holiday, NYSE and the Nasdaq are open, but bond markets are closed Monday, Nov. 11, 2019. According the VA.gov website blog, here is a list of restaurants and other firms that offer free or special deals to vets. …
Credit Human is one of the financial institutions that serves the manufactured housing industry. From their website is this pull-quote. Build Financial Slack Financial health is not about how much money you make, it’s about having enough financial slack. Your income minus expenses is what we mean by financial …
Data about Manufactured Home Professional News (MHProNews) is produced automatically by a variety of third-party sources. Among them are Webalizer and MailChimp. A recent research report of data from Webalizer indicated that federal and state governmental sources account for thousands of hits monthly on MHProNews, which is a small number if …
President Donald J. Trump’s campaign has not been shy about pushback. Accuse him of collusion with Russia? Challenge that at every level. After 2 years, Special Counsel Robert Mueller effectively delivered nada. As longtime MHProNews readers may recall, shortly after the probe was launched, relying on experts like Harvard Law’s …
Millions have seen the classic movie “Tucker,” based on the real-life experience of revolutionary car designer Preston Tucker. There are fascinating touch-points and lessons for our industry from the experiences that will be related in the report that follows. Tucker was as revolutionary in automotive as Carl Strandlund was for …
A reasonably well-known professional figure in manufactured housing circles told MHProNews that he is a “merchant” that wants “to do business with everyone.” He then said that this writer is a “crusader” – someone ready to do battle for what we believe are just causes. Let’s take that as a qualified compliment. …
Merchants, Crusaders, Dave Ramsey, and Manufactured Homes Read More
There are tragically over half-a-million homeless in the United States tonight, according to the Department of Housing and Urban Development. There are an estimated 111 million living in rental housing, said the Apartment List earlier in 2019. The economy has generated so much demand for workers that there are about …
Markets rose to new highs on increasing signals from across the Pacific that a ‘phase one’ deal with China is taking shape. But perhaps the more interesting news is former New York City Mayor and billionaire Michael Bloomberg is taking the first steps toward formally entering the race. Those reports …
What follows is a lightly edited version for publication of a message sent today to Senator Tina Smith (MN-D). A similar message was also sent to Senator Tim Scott (SC-R). Senator Tina Smith, Let me start by saying we are the Manufactured Housing Industry’s largest and most read trade …
Senate Testimony on Manufactured Housing, Related Letters, and Statements Read More
The news tip came in yesterday, mere minutes after the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) sent out their email to their members and readers about their latest ‘housing alert.’ The tip read as follows: “Same sh-t, different day. They keep going down, rather than up.” It was mere days …
Results Are In! The Next President and CEO of the Manufactured Housing Institute Is… Read More
Project Veritas has struck again, this time with a ‘hot mic’ moment video from ABC News’ video shows Amy Robach talking about the network’s efforts to squash her Jeffrey Epstein coverage. Robach claimed on camera that she had the story ‘for three years.’ A number of high profile people were …
Equity LifeStyle Properties (ELS) has some two hundred high quality manufactured home communities. It is one of the top REITs – Real Estate Investment Trusts – in the manufactured housing industry today. What ensues will utilize a process that follows these steps. This preface. The released dividends press release plus …
This will be part one of a two-part report that will be a deeper dive into insights and information from manufactured home community giant, Equity LifeStyle Properties (ELS) and information that will shed on the land-lease sector and the industry at large. In part one, Manufactured Home Professional News (MHProNews) …
Affordable housing is the name of the game, and modern HUD Code manufactured homes are the runaway most proven type of affordable type of home. That is one possible takeaway from the data that follows. But there are other insights that the facts below, which comes from the U.S. Census …
Markets closed mixed, modestly up or down today, following and/or adding to record highs. Those numbers and our nightly recap of manufactured housing connected stocks are all spotlighted further below. But our focus report tonight will be on political polling, trashed by many following the 2016 election cycle, but often …
Manufactured home production and shipments are a mixed bag for September, 2019 results. Before diving into the facts and analysis, let’s step back for some perspective. It is entirely normal for individuals, including professionals from the same field of endeavor, to look at the same data, but see something different …
Mixed Bag in September 2019 Manufactured Home Production, Shipment Data Read More
There are some 22 million Americans living in pre-HUD Code mobile homes and post-HUD Code manufactured homes. According to the Apartment List in 2019, there are some 111 million Americans living in rentals. Those are treasured numbers for politicians of whatever political party. So, it is no surprise that there …
“Read the Transcript,” Proclaimed Trump Supporters’ Tee Shirts As Key Campaign Votes Loom Read More
In Rancho Cordova, CA, the latest salvo in the conflicts over affordable housing and the future of manufactured homeowners and communities has been fired on a local CBS affiliate’s newscast. CBS13 said, “Rent increases are making life difficult for seniors living in a Rancho Cordova manufactured home community.’ It’s a peculiarly …
CBS Spotlights Manufactured Home Community Leader Video Interview Read More
