The applied logic of civil rights reformer Rev Martin Luther King Jr is this. In a very real sense, on any given issue, each person and every organization are either part of the problem or part of the solution. With that notion in mind, the subject of sliding trust in […]
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Before diving into public allegations made by numerous Clayton Homes, employees, managers, and customers a short preface is useful. Bullies may publicly posture being macho, but research and experience reveals that bullies are often timid or even cowards. Members of the mob or organized crime have been known to clean
“It is right to commend and remember King for what he got right, including the equality of all nationalities and non violent protests against injustice. But we must not ignore his failings.” So wrote Joshua Horn some 3 years ago in Discerning History, adding: “As with any other historical figure,
A percentage of the U.S. population, roughly 22 million Americans, live in a pre-HUD Code mobile home or one of millions of post-HUD Code manufactured homes. Some of those residents are currently or were previously lawmakers, as MHProNews and/or MHLivingNews has periodically spotlighted. For instance, Senator Thom Tillis (NC-R) was
After direct engagement about a troubling report about manufactured housing, a real estate publisher that will be identified in an upcoming report deleted the following comment from their website on Friday 12.18.2020. There are more corrections that same publisher made, some as bad or possibly worse, as will
The year 2020 will soon be ending. It is a time of year that some assess results to see where adjustments or improvement can or should be made. So, what can the manufactured housing industry’s professionals and investors learn from the experience of the Florida Manufactured Housing Association (FMHA) and
Perhaps one of the most famous scenes in the classic hit military legal genre movie “A Few Good Men” is when the fictional character Colonel Nathan R. Jessep – played by Jack Nicholson – said, “You can’t handle the truth!” Millions of Americans, after years of gaslighting and brainwashing on
From the McGlinchey Stafford law firm, which does legal work for the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) and others, and is also a MHI member. The following media release from McGlinchey is from JD Supra on October 2, 2020. Their “industry update” will be followed by additional information, including the debate
“The more things change the more they stay the same.” That’s the common translation of what French writer Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr wrote in 1849, “plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose,” per Wikipedia and Quora. What follows from the National Housing Conference (NHC), which has the Manufactured Housing Institute
It has been an evolving saga of drama between residents and management at Jasper Mobile Home Park in San Antonio, Texas that merits a look back to grasp the recent headlined report. For instance, it was on May 28, 2020 that the arrest of John Ripley, former owner of Jasper
The Wilson Times said on August 10, 2020 that a “shooting at 5100 Archers Road in the Windemere Mobile Home Park” which locals say has reportedly grabbed international attention when 25-year-old repeat felon Darius Sessoms allegedly shot and killed 5-year-old Cannon Hinnant. “Police responded to a reported shooting on the 5100 block of
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development told MHProNews on 8.7.2020 that they will be “safely resume physical inspections.” It is a clear indication that HUD and the Trump Administration continue to push re-opening the economy and ‘business as usual’ as much as possible. Following their media release, there
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What some in manufactured housing are calling the “deep state” at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is alive and well. That would be a fair reading of the on-the-record comments from Mark Weiss, J.D., regarding HUD’s purportedly problematic response to MHProNews on the question of Manufactured Housing’s
Fox Business and several other mainstream media outlets picked up on a presidential tweet on Monday. That tweet praised “The Villages,” which is a mixed-use retirement community that has long featured manufactured homes. On a day when the markets are generally rebounding, a brief look at the Villages should prove
MHProNews has been unpacking aspects of the newly-released the “Annual Report of the Council of Economic Advisers” and February 2020 “Economic Report of the President.” While there is a problematic area to their report that will be examined at another time, the focus of our article today will be on
Andrew Breitbart is among those cited as saying “politics is downstream from culture.” In commenting on that notion, the Hedgehog Review says, “Our lives—indeed, our very species—has storytelling wound into our DNA. From the earliest cave drawings, man has expressed himself in terms of story. Ancient civilizations understood that stories
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Between the two Top Gun 2, Maverick official ‘trailer’ videos, they’ve had over 20 million views. If you are like tens of millions of others, it is the sequel that has been awaited for decades. What does this have to do with manufactured housing? Nothing. Everything.
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Martin Gilbert, the outgoing vice chair of British investment company Standard Life Aberdeen, told CNBC that “The biggest problem that the people I meet here have — the investors who give money to us — is ‘where do we put our money?’ And that is the big issue they all
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“What is truth?” – Pontius Pilate per John 18:38 “You can’t handle the truth! … You don’t want the truth because deep down in places you talk about at parties; you want me on that wall, you need me on that wall! We use words like honor, code, loyalty, We use these words as the backbone of a life spent defending something, you use
Community associations and resident advocates alike have been making the issue of elder abuse part of the narrative impacting land lease communities and residents who may be 60 or older. This evening’s market focus will briefly introduce a topic that could be fertile ground for litigants, which means risky ground
