News Reports: Housing news updates and reports for Manufactured Home and Modular Housing Industry professionals and investors. Business – daily fact checks, market reports, and analysis.
The case can be made that there are no good substitutes for rooting out or otherwise exterminating the weeds in a lawn or garden. It is a biblical, poetic, and thus proverbial notion. When weeds are allowed to take root, they inevitably spread. Looking the other way doesn’t make the […]
“Manufactured Housing Improvement Act” and HUD Code manufactured home “enhanced preemption” have hit mainstream media. It is no exaggeration to say that manufactured housing history was surprisingly made on 10.1.2021. What the facts, evidence and common sense will reveal is that something unique and, in several ways, remarkable, occurred due
“…Biden has made it clear, through an unrelenting fusillade of lies, that he does not consider himself to be the least bit accountable to the American people, does not think ordinary rules and norms apply to his administration, and does not think he owes anyone an honest word about anything
“The manufactured housing industry can overcome its negatives by accentuating its positives to a national audience that is largely ignorant of the factory-built housing industry, the study, by Charlton Research Co., showed,” stated the West Virginia Housing Institute (WVHI) newsletter. “The manufactured housing industry can overcome its negatives by accentuating
“Why didn’t [MHI CEO Leslie] Gooch do a follow up letter [to the Washington Post]? After all, she [Gooch] was the one [Beth] DeCarbo contacted and quoted. Gooch had easy access to one of the largest newspapers in the country for a follow up! But apparently, Gooch just let the
The full Cavco Industries (CVCO) press release on their previously announced acquisition of The Commodore Corporation (TCC), was made available at 5 PM ET on 9.27.2021 and will be provided below. Perhaps as or more important are relevant additional information that are not included in the Cavco media release, or
The Wall Street Journal, Architectural Digest, the Motley Fool’s Millionaire Acres and an array of other mainstream and specialized media have reported on “MiTek, a Missouri construction company owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, is launching a new modular building venture,” as the Real Deal reported. As a Yahoo news report said, “The multibillionaire investor has
“The Lie” is a movie streaming on Prime video. As the name suggests, it is about a lie and how one lie leads to others with twisted, unexpected consequences. In manufactured housing there is not just one lie, there are several. While radically different than the Prime movie, lies in
It’s been called the AZ “fraudit” by Democrats, various RINO or other Republicans (see below). Or it has been called the 2020 AZ election forensic vote audit, an effort to restore confidence in the U.S. election process that has been tattered by years of complaints by members and supporters of
Before diving into the headline topics, consider this news item from left-leaning Politico, which recently ‘discovered’ that the Hunter Biden laptop emails first reported in 2020 were ‘true.’ As a key line from Politico framed it, “…finds evidence that some of the purported HUNTER BIDEN laptop material is genuine, including two emails at the center of
Give credit where it is due, using the principle of separating the wheat from the chaff – and motivation. Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) members, Impact Communities leaders Frank Rolfe and Dave Reynolds apparently enjoy stirring the pot in a deceptively candid misdirection move that may seek to deflect from their
This report will provide several topics from a range of sources that in several ways are interrelated. The first is a press release from the small-business focused Job Creators Network (JCN). Washington, DC (September 16, 2021) – Today, Job Creators Network announced its intent to sue the Biden Administration to
Fannie Mae stonewalling evidence will be examined after a brief look at the Big Three (3). There are several possible meanings to the Big Three in manufactured housing. For the purposes of this report the primary big three will be 1) Zoning/Placement issues, 2) apparently artificial Financing Limitations, and 3)
“Our focus as an industry and yours as leaders in Congress have always been to relieve the unprecedented strain from COVID-19 on renters and individual housing providers, and to support the continued viability of the rental housing industry.” That was in a letter signed by the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI)
“If you rest, you rust.” – Helen Hayes. The classic hit movie Moneyball starts with a quote from Mickey Mantle: “It’s unbelievable how much you don’t know about the game you’ve been playing all your life.” Moneyball and that quote could speak volumes to our industry, so long as the
In a press release to MHProNews and others in media, Nobility Homes provided the following information for their third quarter 2021 results. There are insights on several issues that remain hot topics in manufactured housing. They include production, labor and supply challenges – several of which appear to be linked
“Constitution Day (or Citizenship Day), is an American federal observance that recognizes the adoption of the United States Constitution and those who have become U.S. citizens. It is normally observed on September 17, the day in 1787 that delegates to the Constitutional Convention signed the document in Philadelphia.[1]” That’s according to left-leaning Wikipedia. But why it matters more this year than others
The email from the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) to their email readers on September 15, 2021 had no mention of the looming Department of Energy (DOE) rule which have been described as “costly,” burdensome, and not cost-beneficial. These DOE rules could hit manufactured housing producers, sellers, and consumers in the
Some of what passes for news in the mainstream these days is upon close inspection thinly veiled propaganda. Sometimes that deception and misdirection is diabolically clever, sometimes that propaganda is brazen and discernable at-a-glance for those who set aside partisan talking points and then carefully consider the facts, evidence, and
In a marvelous example of federal tax dollars, perhaps your tax dollars, at work are two separate reports by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). HUD has a division known as “The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD’s) Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R) [which] supports
