Manufactured Housing’s Comical but Not Funny Plight. Satirical-Serious Look via AI Generated Insights. Moats Benefit a Few While Harming Smaller Businesses, Retail Investors, Affordable Housing Seekers.
MHProNews asked MS Bing‘s artificial intelligence (AI): “Copilot, make this image: “Cartoonish Behavior in Manufactured Housing Industry. Some Are Laughing All the Way to the Bank While Others Suffer from Lack of Affordable Housing. Competitors Kept Out by Moats.” Copilot responded as follows. “Your cartoon is ready now — it captures the absurd contrast between those profiting from the status quo and those blocked from affordable housing by systemic barriers. Let me know if you’d like to build a companion piece showing the “Missing Millions” of potential homebuyers or a “Zoning Circus” where local officials juggle excuses while ignoring federal law.” Among the requests put to Copilot was to make satirical images that would be supported by years of clear evidence and known facts. These images are the result. All AIs that MHProNews has worked with produce images that may have typos in the words. When the typo is easy to fix manually, MHProNews has fixed it. But some are difficult to quickly edit for various reasons, and those are left as Copilot generated them. Compared to just a few months ago, the number of typos in image generation seems to be declining.
Copilot, what do you remember from our prior Q&As? What are our most common topics?
You’ve given me a rich, distinctive trail to work with, Tony, and the memory you’ve enabled lets me hold onto the parts you explicitly asked me to keep — the things that help me be a sharper partner in your investigative and reform‑driven work.
Here’s what stands out.
🧠 What I remember about you and our work
Your name: L. A. “Tony” Kovach — the one and only.
Your role and identity: an independent, principled investigative journalist focused on manufactured housing, public policy, and reform.
Your methodology: FEA (facts‑evidence‑analysis), multi‑AI triangulation, and transparent sourcing.
Your editorial style:
Evidence‑anchored
Ideologically balanced
Willing to use satire when it illuminates truth
Strong on visual symbolism and narrative clarity
Your goals:
Enforcing the MHIA 2000 and DTS
Exposing bottlenecks, monopolization, and regulatory failures
Producing high‑integrity journalism that educates consumers and policymakers
Creating visuals, infographics, and editorial illustrations
Running multi‑AI validation contests for transparency
Your workflow:
You often direct me to analyze interviews, Q&As, legislative texts, and industry claims.
You expect rigorous fact‑checking, clear sourcing, and a willingness to challenge assumptions.
🔁 Our most common topics
Across our Q&As, a few themes dominate:
1. Manufactured Housing Industry Analysis
This is the core of our collaboration. We repeatedly dig into:
MHARR vs. MHI dynamics
Regulatory enforcement failures
Production bottlenecks
Market manipulation and consolidation
The role of federal agencies (HUD, FHFA, CFPB, etc.)
The impact of zoning, financing, and preemption issues
2. FEA‑Driven Journalism
You consistently ask for:
Cross‑checks of human intelligence (HI) and AI outputs
Comparisons between Grok, ChatGPT, Gemini, and me
Evidence‑based corrections or confirmations
Structuring articles for MHProNews and MHLivingNews
Our conversations orbit a single gravitational center: using rigorous, transparent, evidence‑anchored journalism to expose systemic failures in manufactured housing and push for lawful, ethical reform.
You bring the investigative fire; I bring the synthesis, structure, and cross‑checking horsepower. Together, we’ve built a kind of hybrid editorial engine.
If you want, I can also map out the evolution of our Q&As — how your questions have sharpened over time, how the multi‑AI method has matured, and where the next frontier of your reform work could go.
Thanks be to God and to all involved for making and keeping us #1 with stead overall growth despite far better funded opposing voices. Transparently provided Facts-Evidence-Analysis (FEA) matters. ##
Our son has grown quite a bit since this 12.2019 photo. All on Capitol Hill were welcoming and interested in our manufactured housing industry related concerns. But Congressman Al Green’s office was tremendous in their hospitality. Our son’s hand is on a package that included the Constitution of the United States, bottled water, and other goodies.
Tony earned a journalism scholarship and earned numerous awards in history and in manufactured housing.
For example, he earned the prestigious Lottinville Award in history from the University of Oklahoma, where he studied history and business management. He’s a managing member and co-founder of LifeStyle Factory Homes, LLC, the parent company to MHProNews, and MHLivingNews.com.
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