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Skyline Champion (SKY) in the eyes of many investment advisors plus related stock advisory news sites is riding high. Perhaps it should be. Some of that will be explored in a planned upcoming report. Stay tuned. That noted, nevertheless there are questions. Could more be happening for Skyline Champion? Their …
On April 13, 2021, Tobias Peter of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) Housing Center made the following statements to the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Development summarized by his nonprofit as presented by them below. His AEI colleague Howard Husock also provided relevant testimony. To set the …
Liberal attorney-turned award-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald has been sounding the alarm for years about surveillance state intrusions into American life. Not because MHProNews agrees with every utterance of Greenwald have we featured his penetrating insights on several occasions. Nor is it because he is willing to take out the garbage …
Writer Sheelah Kolhatkar’s New Yorker “What Happens When Investment Firms Acquire Trailer Parks” does not necessarily plow new ground. Kolhatkar uses incorrect terminology in a fluid fashion. There are specific items that will be addressed as correct or erroneous in this Manufactured Home Pro News (MHProNews) fact check and analysis …
“Of course, Tim and OMHA support others in the industry who are working hard to build the viability of and the perception of manufactured housing.” – Elizabeth Birch, General Counsel, Ohio Manufactured Home Association (OMHA), part of emailed comments to MHProNews received at 4:58 PM ET on 4.12.2021. The “viability …
Tim Williams, President and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway (BRK) owned 21st Mortgage Corporation was the former chairman of the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI). That Williams still sits on an MHI board. His firm is reportedly the largest lender in manufactured housing for independent retailers, communities, and others who are not …
Affordable Manufactured Home “Insanity Is Doing the Same Thing Over and Over Again and Expecting Different Results.” Neither part of that statement is by Albert Einstein, suggests Quote Investigator (QI) which said “It’s foolish to repeat ineffective actions. One popular formulation presents this point harshly: “The definition of insanity is …
Notice to MHProNews readers. Stating the obvious, evidence-based reporting that provides news with expert analysis has its advantages. With the passage of time, the accumulation of years of research, testimony, third-party reports, plus industry trends, several things have become apparent. While there are financially significant and politically connected players in …
The high cost to our nation and its citizens caused by NIMBYite thinking – ‘Not in My Back Yard’ or NIMBY – has been well documented by researchers such as Chang Tai Hsieh and Enrico Moretti. In brief, Hsieh and Moretti are nonpartisan National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) experts whose evidence …
That corruption exists in business, nongovernmental organizations (e.g.: nonprofits), and among public officials would not likely be questioned by most news-savvy individuals. The question is how well does mainstream media do at consistently exposing such corruption? What does media do when a story is stumbled upon, or falls in their …
“Roughly 33% of all of the Top 100 owners of mobile home parks in the U.S. went through our Boot Camp.” The word “our” is including in a marketing email for “Mobile Home University” (MHU) on 4.5.2021 from “Frank & Dave.” As thousands in the manufactured home profession know, that …
In a literal April Fool’s Day (4.1.2021) email to their members, the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) – with no apparent sense of irony – said: “MHI is currently reviewing the provisions of the [Biden-Harris White House] proposal to identify opportunities for manufactured housing and areas of concern for our members.” …
Manufactured home community owner Marge Clark previously told MHProNews that the single biggest competitor to the manufactured housing industry is subsidized housing. Federal Reserve researcher James A. Schmitz Jr and his colleagues have publicly and repeatedly accused HUD of working with builders – think private interests – to undermine manufactured …
The handling of the COVID19 pandemic and related public policies – including, but not limited to rushed vaccines where their makers were given legal protections against product liability – are being called one of the largest manipulative propaganda campaigns of modern times by its opponents. Of course, proponents of lockdowns …
In the current political climate, it can take courage and wit to speak out in even the measured tones that Adventure Homes’ Wally Comer has in exclusive comments about the labor market and more that are the focus of this report. MHProNews asked Adventure’s Comer, a Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) …
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 …
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. …
