{"id":20912,"date":"2022-12-10T12:22:34","date_gmt":"2022-12-10T18:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/?p=20912"},"modified":"2022-12-10T12:22:34","modified_gmt":"2022-12-10T18:22:34","slug":"following-the-money-trail-in-battle-over-green-policies-esg-investing-economic-liberty-politics-and-modern-manufactured-housing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/following-the-money-trail-in-battle-over-green-policies-esg-investing-economic-liberty-politics-and-modern-manufactured-housing\/","title":{"rendered":"Following the Money Trail in Battle Over Green Policies, ESG Investing, Economic Liberty, Politics, and Modern Manufactured Housing"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Energy and fuel costs impact virtually everything else. This has become part of the broader debate over the politics, regulations, and investing practices tied to \u2018green\u2019 policies. “Green” and “ESG” investing\u2019s impact on energy and fuel are among the underlying causes of inflation which in turn increases the costs of all housing, including naturally more affordable manufactured homes<\/em>. The outsized role that Warren Buffett led Berkshire Hathaway has in manufactured housing is well known, due to their outright ownership of Clayton Homes, 21st<\/sup> Mortgage Corporation, and Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance (VMF), among other brands that operate in the manufactured housing space. The Berkshire brands have considerable sway over the Manufactured Housing Institute<\/a> (MHI) and MHI state level affiliates<\/a>. Curating evidence from across the spectrum is essential to understanding what’s real vs. what mere PR or agenda-driven fluff. Per left-leaning Wikipedia<\/em>, \u201cEnvironmental, social, and corporate governance\u201d or \u201cESG data reflect the externalities an organization is generating with respect to the environment, to society and to corporate governance. ESG data can be used by investors to assess the material risk the organization is taking and by the organization itself as metrics for strategic and managerial purposes.\u201d But as MHProNews<\/em> has reported, there has been increasing pushback by generally Republican run \u201cred states\u201d at the investment and attorneys general levels to ESG investing and related impacts. As the \u2018green\u2019 segment of the de facto Biden-Democratic agenda has been a large part of their policy since assuming power in January 2021, an awareness and understanding of how this is playing out matters in several ways to affordable housing seekers, advocates, investors, and manufactured home professionals<\/a>.<\/p>