The Institute for Building Technology & Safety (IBTS) is contracted by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to gather accurate statistics on the production and shipments of HUD Code manufactured homes. In their most recent report released in January 2023 that covers the month of November 2022 are the following facts, which is Part I of today’s post. A focused Additional Information with More MHProNews Analysis and Commentary will be Part II of today’s Daily Business News on MHProNews report. Part III are the left-right (CNN-Newsmax) headlines which often reveal ‘market moving’ news that can impact equities. Graphical snapshot of the markets plus dozens of manufactured housing connected publicly traded companies completes our look at the latest in MHVille stock market caps and other trading data.

Part I.

Per IBTS are the following abbreviations for terminology that they use for the information that follows.

• SW is Single Section or “Single Wide” manufactured home.
• MW is Multi-Sectional or “Multi-Wide” manufactured home.
• Total is the total of SW and MW, meaning, single and multi-section totals combined.
• Floors reflects the total floors or sections built for that period.

For the month of November 2022 was the data released on 1.3.2023 which is shown below.

Institute for Building Technology & Safety‎
Shipments and Production Summary Report 11/01/2022 – 11/30/2022

 

Shipments
State	SW	MW	Total	Floors
Dest. Pending	10	12	22	34
Alabama	258	149	407	558
Alaska	1	1	2	3
Arizona	69	166	235	403
Arkansas	52	45	97	142
California	63	267	330	609
Colorado	34	21	55	76
Connecticut	16	13	29	42
Delaware	12	26	38	64
District of Columbia	0	0	0	0
Florida	272	460	732	1,198
Georgia	64	116	180	297
Hawaii	0	2	2	4
Idaho	19	48	67	118
Illinois	75	25	100	125
Indiana	109	39	148	187
Iowa	56	15	71	86
Kansas	95	9	104	113
Kentucky	102	152	254	407
Louisiana	118	91	209	300
Maine	72	41	113	154
Maryland	3	4	7	11
Massachusetts	8	15	23	38
Michigan	239	205	444	649
Minnesota	24	15	39	54
Mississippi	72	120	192	289
Missouri	78	67	145	212
Montana	13	19	32	52
Nebraska	15	8	23	31
Nevada	19	34	53	90
New Hampshire	10	13	23	37
New Jersey	34	25	59	83
New Mexico	44	65	109	174
New York	55	73	128	201
North Carolina	300	208	508	716
North Dakota	30	10	40	50
Ohio	170	62	232	294
Oklahoma	79	86	165	251
Oregon	13	108	121	235
Pennsylvania	91	93	184	277
Rhode Island	2	0	2	2
South Carolina	116	167	283	451
South Dakota	6	19	25	44
Tennessee	64	130	194	324
Texas	616	681	1,297	1,987
Utah	16	25	41	66
Vermont	4	9	13	22
Virginia	49	49	98	147
Washington	15	120	135	264
West Virginia	20	52	72	124
Wisconsin	33	30	63	93
Wyoming	15	10	25	35
Canada	0	0	0	0
Puerto Rico	0	0	0	0
Total	3,750	4,220	7,970	12,223

 

MHProNews Note: there are states such as Rhode Island, Maryland, Massachusetts or Hawaii (among others) that have no or single digit manufactured housing shipments. Why is that so? Don’t those states have an affordable housing crisis too? Yes. Don’t federal laws regarding manufactured housing apply in those states as well as the other 50? Yes. More on such issues further below.

Next up is the production by state of HUD Code manufactured homes.

 

Production
State	SW	MW	Total	Floors
States Shown(*)	273	288	561	853
Alabama	454	540	994	1,515
*Alaska	0	0	0	0
Arizona	38	183	221	407
*Arkansas	0	0	0	0
California	65	239	304	554
*Colorado	0	0	0	0
*Connecticut	0	0	0	0
*Delaware	0	0	0	0
*District of Columbia	0	0	0	0
Florida	44	284	328	618
Georgia	295	225	520	745
*Hawaii	0	0	0	0
Idaho	39	112	151	271
*Illinois	0	0	0	0
Indiana	589	290	879	1,169
*Iowa	0	0	0	0
*Kansas	0	0	0	0
*Kentucky	0	0	0	0
*Louisiana	0	0	0	0
*Maine	0	0	0	0
*Maryland	0	0	0	0
*Massachusetts	0	0	0	0
*Michigan	0	0	0	0
Minnesota	49	46	95	141
*Mississippi	0	0	0	0
*Missouri	0	0	0	0
*Montana	0	0	0	0
*Nebraska	0	0	0	0
*Nevada	0	0	0	0
*New Hampshire	0	0	0	0
*New Jersey	0	0	0	0
*New Mexico	0	0	0	0
*New York	0	0	0	0
North Carolina	205	211	416	628
*North Dakota	0	0	0	0
*Ohio	0	0	0	0
*Oklahoma	0	0	0	0
Oregon	25	224	249	483
Pennsylvania	258	279	537	816
*Rhode Island	0	0	0	0
*South Carolina	0	0	0	0
*South Dakota	0	0	0	0
Tennessee	533	549	1,082	1,631
Texas	883	750	1,633	2,392
*Utah	0	0	0	0
*Vermont	0	0	0	0
*Virginia	0	0	0	0
*Washington	0	0	0	0
*West Virginia	0	0	0	0
*Wisconsin	0	0	0	0
*Wyoming	0	0	0	0
*Canada	0	0	0	0
*Puerto Rico	0	0	0	0
Total	3,750	4,220	7,970	12,223

 

THE ABOVE STATISTICS ARE PROVIDED AS A MONTHLY

SUBSCRIPTION SERVICE. REPRODUCTION IN PART OR

IN TOTAL MUST CARRY AN ATTRIBUTION TO IBTS, INC.

(*) THESE STATES HAVE FEWER THAN THREE PLANTS.

FIGURES ARE AGGREGATED ON FIRST LINE ABOVE

TOTALS TO PROTECT PROPRIETARY INFORMATION.

Ashok K Goswami, PE, COO, 45207 Research Place,  Ashburn, VA

 

Part II. Additional Information with More MHProNews Analysis and Commentary

Earlier this month, the Manufactured Housing Institute provided the following information to their member-readers in the “Federated States.” This information is routinely NOT made publicly available by MHI on their website, and must be accessed by a members-only login.

 7,998 New HUD Code Homes Shipped in November

Last week, MHI released its Monthly Economic Report for November. In November 2022, 7,998 new manufactured homes were shipped, a decrease of 687 homes or 7.9 percent compared to October 2022, and a decrease of 1,062 homes or 11.7 percent compared to November 2021. Compared with the same month last year, shipments of both single-section and multi-section homes were down, by 6.0 percent and 16.3 percent, respectively. The seasonally adjusted annual rate (SAAR) of shipments was 93,201 in November 2022, down 5.8 percent compared to the adjusted rate of 98,907 in October 2022. The SAAR corrects for normal seasonal variations and projects annual shipments based on the current monthly total. Click here to read the full report.  …##

 

Earlier this month, the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) provided the following. Per MHARR was the following. The MHARR report preceded that of MHI.

HUD Code Production Declines Again in November 2022

 

Washington, D.C., January 3, 2023 – The Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) reports that according to official statistics compiled on behalf of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), HUD Code manufactured housing industry year-over-year production declined in November 2022. Just-released statistics indicate that HUD Code manufacturers produced 7,970 homes in November 2022, a 12% decline from the 9,069 new HUD Code homes produced in November 2021. Cumulative production for 2022 now totals 106,476 homes, an 8.9% increase over the 97,758 homes produced during the same period in 2021.

A further analysis of the official industry statistics shows that the top ten shipment states from the beginning of the industry production rebound in August 2011 through November 2022 — with cumulative, monthly, current year (2022) and prior year (2021) shipments per category as indicated — are:

The November 2022 data does not result in any changes to the cumulative top-ten list.

The Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform is a Washington, D.C.-based national trade association representing the views and interests of independent producers of federally-regulated manufactured housing.

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Inconvenient (for some) Facts, Evidence and Truths – Focused MHProNews Related Information, Analysis, and Commentary

Texas is the runaway number one state producing manufactured homes and is routinely the top state for shipments of HUD Code manufactured housing as well. That noted, the two reports linked below from the Texas A&M University’s Texas Real Estate Research Center (TRERC) is worth reading or re-reading.

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Manufactured housing is routinely about 50 percent of the construction cost per square foot when compared to conventional housing, per U.S. Census Bureau data.

 

As the graphic that follows reveals, decades ago, that price advantage was a key factor that led to the then mobile home industry achieving about 1/3 of all single-family conventional housing starts. Needless to say, that represented a threat to conventional housing builders. When producers inside the then mobile home industry pushed to create what became the HUD Code for manufactured housing in 1974 (which took effect on June 15, 1976), little did they know that the manufactured home industry would soon tumble sharply. Manufactured housing has never achieved the level of production attained by the pre-HUD Code mobile home industry. Why is that so?

 

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Minneapolis Federal Reserve Senior Researcher James A. “Jim” Schmitz Jr. and his colleagues have pointed to what they called ‘sabotaging monopoly’ tactics deployed by the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) and forces working inside HUD. Taxpayer funded housing subsidies, for example, helped make conventional building more affordable. Zoning and placement barriers made placing a manufactured home more difficult. Other items are examined by Schmitz and the related analysis found linked below.

In recent years, Schmitz and his colleagues have issued several articles and in-depth reports involving manufactured housing. It is clear that they are supportive of the industry’s affordable housing product. It is also clear that they are convinced by the evidence that manufactured housing has been ‘sabotaged’ by a combination of factors that include housing industry trade advocates, conventional builders, and elements within HUD itself undermining manufactured homes.  This, they assert, has several harmful consequences to minorities, all those with lower incomes, leads to more homelessness, and has other ripple effects too. These researchers point to Thurman Arnold and others at the antitrust division of the Department of Justice (DoJ), who Schmitz and company say attempted to protect factory home building from predatory monopolistic sabotaging tactics.

If MHI were sincerely interested in representing “all segments” of the manufactured housing industry, then why have they failed to even mention Schmitz and his research? As the commentary in the purple call out box bellow reflects, much of Schmitz’s research could prove useful in advocacy by MHI with HUD, Congress, the White House, or mainstream media, among others. Are they unprofessional? Lazy? Why have they been accused by some of their own members, past and present, of failing at advocacy that ought to be common sense?  Note, in several devices and browsers, the image below can be expanded to a larger size. Or it could be downloaded and opened to more easily read the notes and commentary.

 

 

If MHI sincerely wanted to achieve robust growth, as they have claimed at various times and in authoritative documents, then why have they partnered with NAHB and other industry competitors which Schmitz and others say are trying to undermind manufactured housing?

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Doug Ryan with Prosperity Now, when that nonprofit was known as CFED, made a similar but different claim. Like Schmitz et al, Ryan pointed to various pieces of evidence in asserting that the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) was providing cover for Clayton Homes and their affiliated lenders. Those lenders, 21^st Mortgage Corporation and Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance (VMF), have drawn scrutiny for years, including, but not limited to, the Seattle Times series of reports on their problematic lending practices. Those practices would arguably not have been so significant, but for the fact that Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Ginnie Mae, and other federally backed and/or legislatively supported programs have been throttled for the bulk of the 21^st century. While Lesli Gooch, on behalf of MHI denied the allegations made by Ryan, a close look at the analysis linked below demonstrated the resilience of Ryan’s concerns and the weaknesses of Gooch’s slippery defense.

Ryan’s point is similar to ones made by Pew Research or the Urban Institute.

The Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) has recently, and for years, pressed MHI to ‘do its job’ instead of posturing, preening, and pretending to act when a close examination of the facts reveals that MHI is failing at its owned claimed 990 mission statement.

‘Ending the String of Self-Inflicted Manufactured Housing Industry Wounds’ January 2023 Manufactured Housing Assoc for Regulatory Reform Issues and Perspectives (MHARR); plus Sunday MHVille Recap

Despite the fact that MHI has an apparent array of critics who are PRO-Manufactured Housing, but who have publicly QUESTIONED MHI’s effectiveness, methods, and results – MHI is publicly largely silent about those critics. More privately, the word is that MHI attempts to slur and demean their critics when asked about them.  As recently as this past week, MHProNews has asked MHI, and/or their outside attorneys, to comment on such concerns. While the messages were acknowledged, no reply or comments were offered. Thus, the allegations against them stand unchallenged publicly.

 

 

 

There is an evidence-based case to be made that manufactured housing ought to be operating at several times its current production levels.  Actually, one could simply rely upon Dick Jennison’s comment from some 8 years ago that manufactured housing could achieve 500,000 new homes produced annually. But there are voices within and outside of manufactured housing that when carefully examined make a compelling case for that or more.  For instance, the second item immediately below is a remark made by Cavco Industries (CVCO) William “Bill” Boor during an earnings call.  Statements by corporate officials are supposed to be accurate and not misleading, per various federal regulations.

 

 

A year ago, Cavco was all but bragging that they were turning away business.

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Yet, when the year came to an end, the market recap for 2022 revealed that Cavco and numbers of manufactured housing connected equities did not keep up with inflation, and/or outright lost value.

‘Stomach Churning Year’ CNN-Wall Street ‘Forget 2022’ Down Year – Major Equities Data Compared to Manufactured Housing Stocks, Manufactured Home Community REITs, Performance for Year by Company

 

There is direct and indirect evidence that manufactured housing is underperforming due in part to the action/inaction of specific corporate and association leaders who want the industry to underperform in order to act as a barrier to new companies coming in and to foster consolidation of the industry.

 

 

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A law professor told MHProNews that he found Strommen’s thesis to be compelling and well presented.  There is an apparent need for public officials and/or private attorneys, perhaps working on behalf of shareholders, to probe and prosecute as needed those involved in the apparent undermining of the manufactured housing industry.  There is simply too much education and experience among the leaders of MHI to ignore the terrible performance as measured by manufactured housing production and sales. The apparent motivation for this scheme to underperform as an industry includes consolidation, as several public firms have said as much in their own investor pitches.  That said, it is not an excuse to shortchange the public, taxpayers, investors, and others through clever head fakes, paltering, and the like.

The Bottom Lines?

• The third-party evidence in favor of manufactured housing is extensive.  Yet the self-proclaimed umbrella (production and post-production) trade group for the industry which claims to represent “all segments” of manufactured housing, MHI, is sorely lacking on that useful pro-manufactured home evidence produced by others. Why?
• Manufactured housing is underperforming during an affordable housing crisis.  Why?
• There are several experts and professionals who have called for antitrust efforts that specifically need to include the harmful impact of oligopoly style monopolization in manufactured housing. Some of those voices and writers point to evidence and specific issues caused by purported oligopoly style monopolists as reasons why manufactured housing is underperforming. To be clear, there are forces inside and outside of MHVille (i.e.: the artificially smaller manufactured home industry) that contribute to industry underperformance. Why does MHI, which has an antitrust statement (as a fig leaf?), ignore these voices and writings? Why isn’t MHI calling for antitrust probes and related action? Could it be that it is because MHI has become the organization that these consolidators of the industry have congregated to wield their influence over the manufactured home industry?
• MHI and their corporate leaders, after years of praising this publication, have pivoted to avoiding any direct reply to those inquiries or others that point to their problematic track record in the 21st century.  MHI directly and through surrogates has apparently attempted to prevent, where possible, the presence of MHProNews at the same events that they attend or host.

State attorneys general are tasked to enforce a range of laws that include antitrust. State governments routinely struggle with the impacts of the affordable housing crisis.

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Part III. Daily Business News on MHProNews Markets Segment

The modifications of our prior Daily Business News on MHProNews format of the recap of yesterday evening’s market report are provided below. It still includes our signature left (CNN Business) and right (Newsmax) ‘market moving’ headlines. The macro market moves graphics will provide context and comparisons for those invested in or tracking manufactured housing connected equities.

In minutes a day readers can get a good sense of significant or major events while keeping up with the trends that are impacting manufactured housing connected investing.

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Headlines from left-of-center CNN Business – from the evening of 1.17.2023

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• Graham to Join Trump’s South Carolina ’24 Launch
• Kissinger Favors Outcome of Ukraine Joining NATO, Russia Initiating Peace
• Biden Vows We ‘Have Your Back’ on Student Debt Relief
• McCarthy: Santos Will Be Placed on Committees
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• Top US Gen. Milley, Ukraine Counterpart Meet in Poland
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• Watergate Lawyer: Biden May Escape Charges on Technicality
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• Stocks Edge Lower on Wall Street in Uncertain Trading
• WH Press Secretary Jean-Pierre Walks Out on Newsmax Question
• Speaker McCarthy: ‘Arrogance’ for Biden to Reject Debt Limit Talks
• WH Accuses Republicans of Hypocrisy on Biden Documents
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• MSG Entertainment Told Facial Scan Policy Could Cost Support
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• If Biden Documents Scandal Sinks 2024 Plans, Who Could Democrats Turn To?
• White House Press Briefings Devolve Into ‘Total Waste of Time’

 

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Updated

• NOTE 1: The 3rd chart above of manufactured housing connected equities includes the Canadian stock, ECN, which purchased Triad Financial Services, a manufactured home industry finance lender.
• NOTE 2: Drew changed its name and trading symbol at the end of 2016 to Lippert (LCII).
• NOTE 3: Deer Valley was largely taken private, say company insiders in a message to MHProNews on 12.15.2020, but there are still some outstanding shares of the stock from the days when it was a publicly traded firm.  Thus, there is still periodic activity on DVLY.
• Note 4: some recent or related reports to the REITs, stocks, and other equities named above follow in the reports linked below.

Manufactured Housing Properties-Results for Three and Nine Months Ending September 30.2022–Exploring ‘Mobile Home Park’ Manufactured Home Community Investing; plus MHVille REITs, Stocks Update

Manufactured Housing’s Next BIG Regulatory Battle That MHARR’s Spotlighted and Which MHI Conveniently Ignored in Recent ‘Manufactured Housing Institute News;’ plus Sunday Weekly Headlines Recap

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