{"id":20494,"date":"2022-04-14T11:17:50","date_gmt":"2022-04-14T16:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/?p=20494"},"modified":"2022-04-21T08:48:20","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T13:48:20","slug":"manufactured-housing-institute-mhi-lashed-by-current-past-members-odd-defense-of-arlington-va-based-mhi-association-suggested-meeting-for-new-post-production-national-trade-group-considered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/manufactured-housing-institute-mhi-lashed-by-current-past-members-odd-defense-of-arlington-va-based-mhi-association-suggested-meeting-for-new-post-production-national-trade-group-considered\/","title":{"rendered":"Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) Lashed by Current, Past Members; Odd Defense of Arlington VA Based MHI Association, Suggested Meeting for New Post-Production National Trade Group Considered"},"content":{"rendered":"

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There are a range of journalistic reasons to provide a subject of an article, topic or series of reports an opportunity to respond. Those reasons include fairness, legal, foundational, and other potential factors. For those who blog or publish but are not engaged in a serious journalistic effort, those motivations for outreach to a source may not be considered. With that brief background in mind, MHProNews reached out yet again days ago to Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) staff and board leaders, as well as to two of \u201cthe Institute\u2019s\u201d outside attorneys to provide them an opportunity to respond to a recent post linked below. Public responses by email to that outreach came not from MHI, but rather from two of their current\/prior members. Each of those were illuminating. As sophisticated and regular readers of the Masthead on MHProNews know, an editor\u2019s blog is editorial opinion, but can obviously provide facts and evidence in support of that opinion. Additionally, it is noteworthy that MHProNews has for years had on the top right corner a tagline under our logo. It simply states that this manufactured housing trade publication presents \u201cIndustry News, Tips, and Views Pros Can Use.\u201d The reasons to consider MHI as relevant at all should be seen through the lens of how effective it is at standing up to the rest of its own stated goals, posturing, and claims vs the actual actions and industry outcomes experienced. To do that based on evidence, objective facts, and applied common sense that provided opportunities for feedback from the critiqued source is about as fair as it gets.<\/p>