{"id":10726,"date":"2015-11-08T09:54:01","date_gmt":"2015-11-08T15:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/?p=10726"},"modified":"2015-11-08T09:54:01","modified_gmt":"2015-11-08T15:54:01","slug":"chinese-mods-to-u-s-europe-threat-or-opportunity-for-mh-builders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/chinese-mods-to-u-s-europe-threat-or-opportunity-for-mh-builders\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese MODs to U.S., Europe? Threat or Opportunity for MH Builders?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, we&#8217;ve been contacted by a Chinese firm, exploring the U.S. and North American market.<\/p><div id=\"manuf-49973324\" class=\"manuf-content manuf-entity-placement\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3870480136270376\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3870480136270376\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"\" \ndata-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Published reports and input from other sources both suggest that China&#8217;s industrialized builders ship their idea of modular units to some 80 different nations. Most every continent, save Antarctica, has seen Chinese housing plays; many include &#8216;industrialized housing,&#8217; as we&#8217;ve reported previously in our <strong><em>Daily Business News<\/em><\/strong> department of <strong><em>MHProNews<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10736\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10736\" style=\"width: 575px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/ChineseModularHomes-postedMastheadBlog-MHProNews-comWZH.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10736\" src=\"http:\/\/manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/ChineseModularHomes-postedMastheadBlog-MHProNews-comWZH-575x267.png\" alt=\"ChineseModularHomes-postedMastheadBlog-MHProNews-comWZH\" width=\"575\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/ChineseModularHomes-postedMastheadBlog-MHProNews-comWZH-575x267.png 575w, https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/ChineseModularHomes-postedMastheadBlog-MHProNews-comWZH-150x70.png 150w, https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/ChineseModularHomes-postedMastheadBlog-MHProNews-comWZH.png 646w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 575px) 100vw, 575px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10736\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This is just one of many styles of modular housing that China is shipping to some 80 nations globally. Container and other kinds of pre-fab housing are pouring from Chinese housing factories, its a market worth tens of billions and is growing. \u00a0This is both a threat to domestic U.S. housing, but also is a wake-up call to American factory home builders and savvy investors who want to make this work for U.S. and North American companies.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Muslim Refugee &#8216;Invasion&#8217; of Europe fuels interest in factory-built homes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Areas of Europe impacted by the surge in refugees from Islamic nations rocked by war and violence are creating a growing interest in factory-built homes overseas. This is reflected in our site statistics, which senses (detects) the nation of origin.<\/p>\n<p>So while some 95% (+\/-) of our traffic is and has been domestic, the fluctuations of where that international website traffic comes from is interesting to monitor.<\/p>\n<p>Before the shakeup earlier this year of Chinese markets, traffic from that nation was often a larger slice of that international traffic pie.<\/p>\n<p>Other lands where investment dollars were plentiful also tended to be higher in our international readers.<\/p>\n<p>With oil prices down, and China rattled some by its stock market slide, traffic from lands that benefit from oil or the Asian giant have slid.<\/p>\n<p>However, now there is more traffic from counties hungry for affordable housing.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10737\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10737\" style=\"width: 182px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/ChinesePreFabHomes-postedMastheadBlog-MHProNews-comWZH.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10737\" src=\"http:\/\/manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/ChinesePreFabHomes-postedMastheadBlog-MHProNews-comWZH.png\" alt=\"ChinesePreFabHomes-postedMastheadBlog-MHProNews-comWZH\" width=\"182\" height=\"130\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/ChinesePreFabHomes-postedMastheadBlog-MHProNews-comWZH.png 182w, https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/ChinesePreFabHomes-postedMastheadBlog-MHProNews-comWZH-150x107.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 182px) 100vw, 182px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10737\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Does this Chinese prefab make you think U.S. single section manufactured housing? Which looks better, &#8211; theirs or domestic U.S. HUD Code product? \u00a0Let&#8217;s not let American opportunities &#8211; as well as those overseas &#8211; slip through U.S. factory builder&#8217;s fingers.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It seems the U.S. ought to be a player internationally. But all too often, America is not as active in the business of solving the global hunger for factory-built homes.<\/p>\n<p>Which brings us back to the domestic U.S. housing scene.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hawaii and other higher priced housing markets<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Facts are facts, so let&#8217;s not oversimplify. We&#8217;re seeing higher readership on articles relating to Hawaiian manufactured or modular home news reports. Ditto some other markets in the mainland 48 states.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Affordable housing is a big issue in every state of the land.<\/em><\/strong> Bloomberg recently cited the fact that first time home buyers have hit a 28 year low here in the U.S.. that our Matthew Silver reported on in the <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Business News.<\/a><\/em><\/strong> This at a time when rents are rising, and incomes for most Americans are flat or falling.<\/p>\n<p>Tim Williams \u2013 MHI\u2019s new Chair &#8211; said it, the historic conditions for an even stronger rise in MH shipments are ripe. \u00a0See the graphics he provided us, below.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10733\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10733\" style=\"width: 474px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/FactorsEffectingDemandcredit-TimWIlliams-21stMortgage-new-MHIChair-postedMastheadMHProNews-com-.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10733\" src=\"http:\/\/manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/FactorsEffectingDemandcredit-TimWIlliams-21stMortgage-new-MHIChair-postedMastheadMHProNews-com-.png\" alt=\"FactorsEffectingDemandcredit-TimWIlliams-21stMortgage-new-MHIChair-postedMastheadMHProNews-com-\" width=\"474\" height=\"376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/FactorsEffectingDemandcredit-TimWIlliams-21stMortgage-new-MHIChair-postedMastheadMHProNews-com-.png 474w, https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/FactorsEffectingDemandcredit-TimWIlliams-21stMortgage-new-MHIChair-postedMastheadMHProNews-com--150x119.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10733\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The two panels above and below are courtesty of MHI&#8217;s new Chairman, Tim Williams, 21st Mortgage CEO.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10734\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10734\" style=\"width: 575px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/TimWilliams-21stMortgagegraphiccredit-textMastheadBlog-MHProNews-com-.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10734\" src=\"http:\/\/manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/TimWilliams-21stMortgagegraphiccredit-textMastheadBlog-MHProNews-com--575x223.png\" alt=\"TimWilliams-21stMortgage=graphiccredit-text=MastheadBlog-MHProNews-com-\" width=\"575\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/TimWilliams-21stMortgagegraphiccredit-textMastheadBlog-MHProNews-com--575x223.png 575w, https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/TimWilliams-21stMortgagegraphiccredit-textMastheadBlog-MHProNews-com--150x58.png 150w, https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/TimWilliams-21stMortgagegraphiccredit-textMastheadBlog-MHProNews-com-.png 840w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 575px) 100vw, 575px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10734\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arrows and commentary in red from the Masthead blog, MHProNews.com.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The next chart below tells a different part of the painful tale of the big bite taken out of the budgets of so many Americans for housing.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10728\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10728\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/HoursMinimumWageAffordRentPostedMastheadMHProNews-com-.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10728 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/HoursMinimumWageAffordRentPostedMastheadMHProNews-com-.jpeg\" alt=\"HoursMinimumWageAffordRentPostedMastheadMHProNews-com-\" width=\"450\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/HoursMinimumWageAffordRentPostedMastheadMHProNews-com-.jpeg 450w, https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/HoursMinimumWageAffordRentPostedMastheadMHProNews-com--150x119.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10728\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The ligther colored states reflect 70 hours or less needed at mimum wage to afford to rent a 2 bedroom apartment in that market. While tragic, this represents an opportunity in disguise for MH. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mhmarketingsalesmanagement.com\/home\/industry-news\/industry-in-focus\/6630-sam-zell-the-point-of-the-spear-and-qyouve-got-to-have-confidenceq\" target=\"_blank\">ELS&#8217; Chairman Sam Zell said as much 2 years ago<\/a>. Graphic Credit &#8211; National Low Income Housing Initiative.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>These are some of the reasons why Financial Services Chairman Jeb Hensarling invitation for plans to reform HUD and address the causes of poverty are so important.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10730\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10730\" style=\"width: 582px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/NanoTechNewscredit-After50YearsReinventingHUDsRoleAffordableHousing-posted-MHProNews-com-.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10730\" src=\"http:\/\/manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/NanoTechNewscredit-After50YearsReinventingHUDsRoleAffordableHousing-posted-MHProNews-com-.jpg\" alt=\"NanoTechNews=credit-After50YearsReinventingHUD'sRoleAffordableHousing-posted-MHProNews-com-\" width=\"582\" height=\"656\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/NanoTechNewscredit-After50YearsReinventingHUDsRoleAffordableHousing-posted-MHProNews-com-.jpg 582w, https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/NanoTechNewscredit-After50YearsReinventingHUDsRoleAffordableHousing-posted-MHProNews-com--133x150.jpg 133w, https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/NanoTechNewscredit-After50YearsReinventingHUDsRoleAffordableHousing-posted-MHProNews-com--381x430.jpg 381w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 582px) 100vw, 582px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10730\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nanotechnews.com\/after-50-years-reinventing-huds-role-in-fighting-poverty-creating-affordable-housing\/\" target=\"_blank\">NanoTech picked this story up as &#8220;technology news<\/a>,&#8221; meaning for them, how the &#8216;technology&#8217; of factory built housing could help solve the affordable housing and poverty crisis in America. Over <strong>1100+<\/strong> news, media, RSS, specialty websites and social media posts have appeared online within 48 hours of our press release. There is a hunger and interest on this topic! \u00a0Will more in MH catch the wave? Screen capture from NanoTechNews, original <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mhmarketingsalesmanagement.com\/component\/banners\/click\/154\" target=\"_blank\">photo credit, Sunshine Homes, Red Bay AL<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The CBO study cited in my report to Chairman Hensarling on a concept to reform HUD speaks volumes for the opportunities in the U.S. to move the needle for MH.\u00a0 Serious researchers should check that report out, linked now from over 1100 sites and is found in the proposal, <a href=\"http:\/\/manufacturedhomelivingnews.com\/reinventing-huds-role-in-quality-affordable-housing-reducing-poverty-and-dependency\/\" target=\"_blank\">linked here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So far, in about 48 hours, over 1,000 sites has picked up our media release on the report shown.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10731\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10731\" style=\"width: 575px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/After50YearsReinventingHUDsRoleinAffordableHousing-GooglesScreenCapturecredit-MHProNews-com-_001.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10731\" src=\"http:\/\/manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/After50YearsReinventingHUDsRoleinAffordableHousing-GooglesScreenCapturecredit-MHProNews-com-_001-575x154.png\" alt=\"After50YearsReinventingHUDsRoleinAffordableHousing-GooglesScreenCapture=credit-MHProNews-com-_001\" width=\"575\" height=\"154\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/After50YearsReinventingHUDsRoleinAffordableHousing-GooglesScreenCapturecredit-MHProNews-com-_001-575x154.png 575w, https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/After50YearsReinventingHUDsRoleinAffordableHousing-GooglesScreenCapturecredit-MHProNews-com-_001-150x40.png 150w, https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/After50YearsReinventingHUDsRoleinAffordableHousing-GooglesScreenCapturecredit-MHProNews-com-_001-900x241.png 900w, https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/After50YearsReinventingHUDsRoleinAffordableHousing-GooglesScreenCapturecredit-MHProNews-com-_001.png 1008w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 575px) 100vw, 575px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10731\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Screen capture &#8211; credit &#8211; Google. Text credit, MHProNews.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Analysis and advocacy often can go hand in glove. Please see the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mhmarketingsalesmanagement.com\/blogs\/bobstovall\/getting-reality-based-mh-results\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cutting Edge blog report on the traction being found in mainstream media<\/a> from award winning journalist, Jan Hollingsworth&#8217;s report on fires, safety and MH.<\/p>\n<p>Then <strong>imagine<\/strong> what it could be like if every week, many times a week, <em>good news stories about MH were hitting the news and social media, from coast to coast.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There are companies in MH, typically publicly traded ones, that routinely do press releases. \u00a0Those are often treated as what they are, business news. \u00a0While important and valuable, their focus is narrow.<\/p>\n<p>What we&#8217;re doing on MHLivingNews.com &#8211; reflected in the examples above &#8211; is broader, more general industry focused. \u00a0Yes, it will benefit individual firms. \u00a0But its news, and as a pro-industry trade publisher, designed to educate and raise the image of the MH Industry at large.<\/p>\n<p>Trade publishing is quite rightly treated differently by others in media, researchers and special interest groups than a business report or an association report. \u00a0Each has value. \u00a0<em>But our efforts are candidly filling a role that no one else in MH trade publishing is filling.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>A positive MH Image and solid, fact-based education supports every other good effort in manufactured housing.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s tie this once more into the headline, and call it a session.<\/p>\n<p>Change most commonly happens for one of two reasons; <strong>the carrot or the stick. \u00a0<\/strong>We frail mortals change:<\/p>\n<p>(a)<strong> because we&#8217;re forced to change,<\/strong> because of some threat (Chinese mods in the U.S., you better believe we best secure our market now. \u00a0Think about what happened when Japanese and then Korean automakers hit America&#8217;s shores in numbers); or<\/p>\n<p>(b) <strong>because of some opportunity<\/strong> that is crying to be tapped.<\/p>\n<p><strong>We have both threats and opportunities for MH.<\/strong> \u00a0The time for positive, profitable change is NOW. \u00a0The time to define ourselves and take our rightful place in the U.S. &#8211; and international &#8211; housing markets is NOW.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10362\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10362\" style=\"width: 463px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Business_as_Usual_Dead_End_Flckr_Creative_Commons_opensourceway-postedMastheadBlogMHProNews-.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10362\" src=\"http:\/\/manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Business_as_Usual_Dead_End_Flckr_Creative_Commons_opensourceway-postedMastheadBlogMHProNews-.png\" alt=\"Business_as_Usual_Dead_End_Flckr_Creative_Commons_opensourceway-postedMastheadBlogMHProNews-\" width=\"463\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Business_as_Usual_Dead_End_Flckr_Creative_Commons_opensourceway-postedMastheadBlogMHProNews-.png 463w, https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Business_as_Usual_Dead_End_Flckr_Creative_Commons_opensourceway-postedMastheadBlogMHProNews--150x73.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 463px) 100vw, 463px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10362\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The time for defining (and redefining) ourselves in the marketplace is now. What we&#8217;re doing on <a href=\"http:\/\/MHLivingNews.com\" target=\"_blank\">MHLivingNews.com<\/a> is the start. <strong>\u00a0Its scalable.<\/strong> \u00a0It is already getting results. Graphic credit, OpenSourceway and FlickrCreativeCommons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We could be shipping more factory-built homes in the U.S., and overseas too.<\/p>\n<p>Nature abhors a vacuum. If good U.S. Companies don&#8217;t do this, you should not be surprised when China, Japan or others step in and fill that vacuum in Europe and the U.S., as they already are in Africa, Asia and Latin America. ##<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10545\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10545\" style=\"width: 405px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/MHC-MD.com\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-10545\" src=\"http:\/\/manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/SoheylaTamasTonyKovachFamily-MastheadMHProNews-com--575x383.jpg\" alt=\"SoheylaTamasTonyKovachFamily-MastheadMHProNews-com-\" width=\"405\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/SoheylaTamasTonyKovachFamily-MastheadMHProNews-com--575x383.jpg 575w, https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/SoheylaTamasTonyKovachFamily-MastheadMHProNews-com--150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/SoheylaTamasTonyKovachFamily-MastheadMHProNews-com-.jpg 580w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 405px) 100vw, 405px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10545\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Team Kovach &#8211; (l-r) Soheyla (prounounced So Hey La), Tamas (pronounced Tah Mash) and L. A. &#8220;Tony&#8221; Kovach (prounounced Co-Vatch like Watch) &#8211; is heading to Chicago, MS and AL among the stops on our next Inside MH Road Show. \u00a0Photo above, credit, from 83 Degress Media.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By <a href=\"LATonyKovach.com\">L. A. \u2018Tony\u2019 Kovach<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, we&#8217;ve been contacted by a Chinese firm, exploring the U.S. and North American market. Published reports and input from other sources both suggest that China&#8217;s industrialized builders ship their idea of modular units to some 80 different nations. 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