While the progress towards a ‘more perfect Union’ envisioned by the U.S. Constitution is apparently uneven, events this past week may have brought the Republic at least a step or two towards that noble aspiration. SCOTUS – the Supreme Court of the United States – handed down their much-anticipated Loper Bright ruling. Another interesting and potentially hopeful development last week is explored in the post Biden-Trump debate, with both of those topics among this week’s headlines in review. Still other reports on specific firms and developments in MHVille or affordable housing are provided in this Sunday morning weekly recap. But as the headline clearly states, included today is an array of data on modern manufactured housing compiled and organized in this article that you are unlikely to find in any single report anywhere on earth relevant to U.S. manufactured housing. That may sound bold, but it is regrettably no exaggeration.  Too few researchers and reporters, beyond our platforms, pull together the array of information that will be found herein.

For example. When did you see an article this year that clearly stated that the price of new single section (a.k.a.: “single wide” or SW below) manufactured homes has essentially doubled in price between November 2014 ($43,700) and November 2023 ($85,900 – see data in Part III, below), yet pointed out that the price of a new single section manufactured home dropped just over 3 percent in November 2023 ($85,900) compared to November 2022 ($88,000)? Yet those facts are accurate, per data obtained by MHProNews from the U.S. Census Bureau.

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Part I

Institute for Building Technology & Safety‎

Shipments and Production Summary Report 4/01/2024 – 4/30/2024

Shipments
State	SW	MW	Total	Floors
Dest. Pending	13	6	19	25
Alabama	320	271	591	863
Alaska	1	1	2	3
Arizona	50	125	175	300
Arkansas	79	87	166	253
California	43	180	223	413
Colorado	19	25	44	69
Connecticut	8	5	13	18
Delaware	12	29	41	70
District of Columbia	0	0	0	0
Florida	205	460	665	1,131
Georgia	125	278	403	683
Hawaii	0	0	0	0
Idaho	6	28	34	64
Illinois	33	22	55	77
Indiana	78	35	113	148
Iowa	21	14	35	49
Kansas	27	13	40	53
Kentucky	140	192	332	526
Louisiana	301	168	469	638
Maine	36	47	83	130
Maryland	23	7	30	37
Massachusetts	11	6	17	23
Michigan	143	182	325	507
Minnesota	24	25	49	74
Mississippi	199	152	351	503
Missouri	89	61	150	210
Montana	14	22	36	58
Nebraska	13	2	15	17
Nevada	4	28	32	63
New Hampshire	14	17	31	48
New Jersey	12	12	24	36
New Mexico	41	98	139	240
New York	57	76	133	209
North Carolina	236	347	583	932
North Dakota	13	13	26	39
Ohio	106	53	159	212
Oklahoma	113	107	220	327
Oregon	25	64	89	156
Pennsylvania	54	77	131	208
Rhode Island	0	0	0	0
South Carolina	162	257	419	677
South Dakota	8	9	17	26
Tennessee	109	229	338	567
Texas	745	879	1,624	2,512
Utah	8	15	23	38
Vermont	11	7	18	25
Virginia	52	80	132	212
Washington	17	93	110	209
West Virginia	50	70	120	191
Wisconsin	86	27	113	140
Wyoming	10	4	14	18
Canada	0	0	0	0
Puerto Rico	0	0	0	0
Total	3,966	5,005	8,971	14,027

Production
State	SW	MW	Total	Floors
States Shown(*)	255	260	515	778
Alabama	779	830	1,609	2,446
*Alaska	0	0	0	0
Arizona	44	131	175	308
*Arkansas	0	0	0	0
California	35	165	200	374
*Colorado	0	0	0	0
*Connecticut	0	0	0	0
*Delaware	0	0	0	0
*District of Columbia	0	0	0	0
Florida	74	230	304	537
Georgia	181	411	592	1,009
*Hawaii	0	0	0	0
Idaho	29	66	95	166
*Illinois	0	0	0	0
Indiana	472	228	700	928
*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	43	68	111	178
*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	204	326	530	856
*North Dakota	0	0	0	0
*Ohio	36	58	94	152
*Oklahoma	0	0	0	0
Oregon	35	169	204	382
Pennsylvania	198	260	458	718
*Rhode Island	0	0	0	0
*South Carolina	0	0	0	0
*South Dakota	0	0	0	0
Tennessee	575	791	1,366	2,158
Texas	1,006	1,012	2,018	3,037
*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	3,966	5,005	8,971	14,027

THE ABOVE STATISTICS ARE PROVIDED AS A MONTHLY					(*) THESE STATES HAVE FEWER THAN THREE PLANTS.
SUBSCRIPTION SERVICE. REPRODUCTION IN PART OR					FIGURES ARE AGGREGATED ON FIRST LINE ABOVE
IN TOTAL MUST CARRY AN ATTRIBUTION TO IBTS, INC.					TOTALS TO PROTECT PROPRIETARY INFORMATION.
Ashok K Goswami, PE, COO, 45207 Research Place,  Ashburn, VA

Part II

Cost & Size Comparisons:
New Manufactured Homes and New Single-Family Site-Built Homes
2014 – 2023
	2023	2022	2021	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016	2015	2014
New Manufactured Homes
All1
Avg. Sales Price	$ 124,300	$ 127,300	$ 108,100	$   87,000	$   81,900	$   78,500	$    71,900	$   70,600	$  68,000	$   65,300
Avg. Square Feet	1,435	1,450	1,497	1,471	1,448	1,438	1,426	1,446	1,430	1,438
Avg. Cost per Sq. Ft.	$     86.62	$     87.79	$     72.21	$     59.14	$     56.56	$     54.59	$      50.42	$     48.82	$   47.55	$    45.41
Single
Avg. Sales Price	$   84,800	$   86,400	$   72,600	$   57,300	$   53,200	$   52,400	$    48,300	$   46,700	$  45,600	$   45,000
Avg. Square Feet	1,038	1,064	1,084	1,085	1,072	1,072	1,087	1,075	1,092	1,115
Avg. Cost per Sq. Ft.	$     81.70	$     81.20	$     66.97	$     52.81	$     49.63	$     48.88	$      44.43	$     43.44	$   41.76	$    40.36
Double
Avg. Sales Price	$ 154,100	$ 158,600	$ 132,000	$ 108,500	$ 104,000	$   99,500	$    92,800	$   89,500	$  86,700	$   82,000
Avg. Square Feet	1,748	1,757	1,794	1,760	1,747	1,747	1,733	1,746	1,713	1,710
Avg. Cost per Sq. Ft.	$     88.16	$     90.27	$     73.58	$     61.65	$     59.53	$     51.26	$      53.55	$     51.26	$   50.61	$    47.95
Housing Starts vs. MH Shipments
(Thousands of Units)
New Single Family
Housing Starts	948	1,005	1,127	991	888	876	849	782	715	648
Percent of Total	91%	90%	91%	91%	90%	90%	90%	91%	91%	91%
Manufactured Home Shipments
Shipped	89	113	106	94	95	97	93	81	71	64
Percent of Total	9%	10%	9%	9%	10%	10%	10%	9%	9%	9%
Total	1,037	1,118	1,233	1,085	983	973	942	863	786	712
New Single-Family
Site-Built Homes Sold
(Home and Land Sold as Package)
Avg. Sales Price	$ 514,000	$   521,500r	$   458,300r	$   391,600r	$ 383,900	$ 385,000	$  384,900	$  360,900	$352,700	$ 347,700
Derived Average Land Price	$ 104,128	$   102,298r	$     97,234r	$     82,728r	$   84,485	$   87,253	$    91,173	$   82,491	$  80,246	$   84,444
Price of Structure
Avg. Square Feet	2,470	2,503r	2,492r	2,502r	2,518	2,602	2,645	2,650	2,724	2,707
Avg. Price per Sq Ft. (excl. land)	$   165.94	$     167.48r	$     144.89r	$     123.45r	$   118.91	$   114.43	$    111.05	$   105.06	$  100.02	$    97.25
Manufactured Home Shipments
Total	89,169	112,882	105,772	94,390	94,615	96,555	92,902	81,136	70,544	64,331
Single-Section	40,525	51,022	44,755	42,578	42,930	44,979	46,305	38,944	32,210	30,218
Multi-Section	48,644	61,860	61,017	51,812	51,685	51,576	46,597	42,192	38,334	34,113
New Manufactured Homes Placed
(For Residential Use)
Inside Communities (2021 – )2	55%	59%	51%	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
Land-leased / manufactured home community	29%	36%	31%	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
Private property in subdivision or planned unit development	27%	23%	21%	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
Outside Communities (2021 – )3	45%	41%	49%	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
Other private property	44%	41%	49%	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
Somewhere else	1%	0%	0%	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
Inside Communities (2014 – 2020)	X	X	X	27%	31%	37%	32%	34%	34%	33%
In a park, court, or community	X	X	X	23%	26%	34%	29%	31%	32%	30%
In a subdivision or planned unit development	X	X	X	4%	4%	3%	3%	3%	3%	3%
Private Property (2014 – 2020)	X	X	X	73%	69%	63%	68%	66%	66%	67%
Not in any of the above	X	X	X	73%	69%	63%	68%	66%	66%	67%
Titled as Personal Property	76%	73%	77%	78%	76%	77%	76%	77%	80%	80%
Titled as Real Estate	20%	21%	19%	19%	19%	17%	17%	17%	14%	13%
r  Revised – refers to seasonal index and seasonally adjusted annual rate figures
1 Includes manufactured homes with more than two sections.
2 Subcategories for this item were revised with the implementation of a new questionnaire in January 2021. This category now contains units located on private property within communities. Prior to 2021, all units on private property were assumed to be located outside communities. Percentages are calculated based on the estimates shown in each category in https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/mhs/tables/time-series/Annual_Char.xlsx
3  Subcategories for this item were revised with the implementation of a new questionnaire in January 2021. This category now contains only units located on private property that are outside communities in addition to units outside communities not located on private property. Percentages are calculated based on the estimates shown in each category in https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/mhs/tables/time-series/Annual_Char.xlsx
Note: The Census Bureau has reviewed this data product for unauthorized disclosure of confidential information and has approved
the disclosure avoidance practices applied.  (Approval ID: CBDRB-FY24-0318)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau and U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Survey of Construction,  https://www.census.gov/construction/chars/;  https://www.census.gov/construction/nrc/xls/starts_cust.xls.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau and U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Manufactured Housing Survey.

 

Part III

Average Sales Price of New Manufactured Homes by Region and Size of Home

By Month of Shipment

(Dollars)

	United States			Northeast			Midwest			South			West
	Total1	Single	Double	Total1	Single	Double	Total1	Single	Double	Total1	Single	Double	Total1	Single	Double
2023
November	126,600	85,900	154,100	122,600	92,400	158,200	116,800	83,900	157,300	125,100	85,200	150,000	149,600	90,600	175,900
October	120,000	83,300	147,700	118,900	84,300	151,900	111,400	84,600	149,400	119,900	83,000	147,400	135,100	82,200	146,100
September	119,700	80,400	151,700	128,700	85,400	172,800	116,000	83,500	159,400	115,900	78,000	144,500	142,300	87,600	178,400
August	128,800	89,800	154,600	132,500	105,200	158,400	113,900	92,200	145,900	128,500	86,500	153,800	149,500	94,400	163,300
July	118,000	82,300	150,200	122,700	72,900	143,100	116,000	81,400	153,400	114,900	82,600	149,300	137,000	84,800	154,900
June	121,400	85,400	153,900	121,800	85,300	149,800	111,800	84,200	153,700	120,100	85,300	152,600	140,000	89,500	162,400
May	129,900	86,300	160,200	120,900	89,800	146,000	104,900	82,900	141,000	132,500	87,800	161,600	149,700	79,800	171,800
April	125,000	86,100	153,600	123,900	87,000	160,800	112,300	87,000	148,900	123,200	83,200	150,100	150,600	105,100	173,400
March	124,700	85,200	155,400	135,200	100,600	172,900	109,400	88,600	152,000	123,800	80,800	153,100	140,800	94,900	162,000
February	128,100	89,200	160,400	136,600	107,000	167,800	114,400	85,300	158,800	127,800	88,200	157,900	144,000	92,800	170,000
January	126,100	82,100	156,900	122,900	86,700	148,300	107,200	83,600	153,100	129,200	81,200	158,300	131,500	81,300	156,700

2022
December	122,100	80,200	155,700	113,900	75,300	158,300	104,700	82,300	144,300	124,000	80,700	155,400	134,700	77,600	162,400
November	125,200	88,000	155,200	119,200	93,900	146,700	113,600	89,100	147,600	126,000	86,500	155,800	138,400	89,500	161,800
October	128,300	81,400	160,400	127,000	86,400	155,300	113,500	87,500	156,700	128,100	77,000	160,000	153,600	86,200	167,300
September	130,400	95,800	159,400	131,300	101,400	162,000	114,600	93,000	155,500	130,300	94,400	158,500	148,600	107,500	163,900
August	125,700	86,500	158,800	117,800	74,700	145,100	110,900	87,500	151,900	126,400	86,000	159,400	144,100	93,400	166,400
July	131,800	85,200	161,600	129,700	93,300	157,400	110,800	83,600	156,100	131,300	82,900	158,700	156,800	97,300	178,200
June	126,900	87,600	159,600	118,500	92,700	134,100	112,500	90,100	146,500	125,300	88,200	159,900	154,200	68,400	174,500
May	124,900	85,800	159,200	121,500	82,100	148,500	112,300	83,600	148,800	124,400	85,900	162,400	142,000	91,900	156,100
April	132,000	83,100	168,000	128,900	87,200	154,700	110,400	80,500	147,800	132,100	83,500	169,900	155,400	82,400	176,600
March	129,200	87,300	156,600	117,900	97,400	145,300	118,500	90,000	154,200	127,400	85,200	154,400	156,100	89,800	171,600
February	128,000	87,700	156,300	130,600	76,000	152,700	115,900	82,400	155,500	126,300	89,500	155,000	150,100	85,100	163,600
January	122,500	84,600	152,800	120,600	85,900	141,800	108,300	82,800	145,400	122,700	85,400	153,300	140,800	80,700	161,000
2021
December	123,200	80,900	150,300	104,700	73,900	127,200	103,300	88,200	129,400	123,500	80,000	149,600	145,200	76,900	170,600
November	111,900	76,400	139,900	100,900	71,600	133,500	107,300	78,100	143,800	110,700	77,000	138,400	128,800	68,400	145,500
October	112,000	81,700	138,200	110,300	74,400	138,700	101,000	81,000	132,600	110,700	81,900	136,400	131,600	85,000	150,400
September	118,300	78,800	141,300	102,100	76,100	124,100	109,300	80,900	142,300	119,300	78,500	142,200	132,100	76,200	141,600
August	112,000	80,000	138,000	105,000	86,000	117,000	100,000	77,000	132,000	112,000	80,000	139,000	135,000	79,000	143,000
July	118,700	76,000	137,800	98,500	74,100	125,700	110,500	79,100	139,300	119,200	74,500	137,100	131,100	81,700	142,800
June	106,800	70,200	128,100	101,600	73,700	124,200	94,900	65,600	125,800	107,500	70,700	128,000	116,400	72,200	131,500
May	106,500	69,900	128,300	98,400	69,900	121,500	94,300	67,500	128,200	109,900	70,600	129,200	104,400	70,300	125,500
April	100,200	66,700	122,500	95,900	73,800	113,300	85,400	61,800	125,400	100,400	67,700	122,200	118,400	65,000	125,000
March	98,100	63,300	123,200	91,400	58,600	121,300	86,400	60,800	119,100	98,100	63,700	122,400	113,000	67,300	130,800
February	98,300	65,400	122,500	88,300	59,400	113,800	87,300	62,400	118,100	98,100	67,100	121,800	116,900	60,900	131,900
January	95,000	64,100	118,500	102,600	67,900	116,200	83,000	62,100	112,700	94,000	64,600	117,300	113,400	62,300	129,500
2020
December	90,200	62,600	110,800	93,600	58,200	115,300	77,100	55,800	107,900	90,100	64,500	109,900	108,800	64,500	115,900
November	92,600	63,500	112,800	85,600	63,600	103,900	81,000	62,400	117,400	92,600	64,200	109,700	115,400	60,100	128,200
October	89,400	57,200	110,000	91,000	57,700	112,100	81,700	58,300	108,000	87,400	56,500	107,900	108,900	61,200	120,000
September	87,300	58,300	107,800	84,800	61,000	105,600	72,100	52,800	98,300	86,900	58,400	105,700	110,100	68,600	126,600
August	88,200	57,700	109,300	87,600	56,700	109,600	75,900	59,500	97,600	87,900	56,800	109,100	104,900	60,500	119,500
July	84,200	59,800	102,700	78,600	58,600	100,300	72,600	56,900	97,000	83,700	59,500	101,300	103,700	72,100	113,200
June	85,600	52,900	109,800	91,700	55,400	117,000	81,400	56,100	115,200	82,700	51,700	106,800	102,700	55,600	117,000
May	85,900	55,200	109,100	79,100	56,300	100,200	73,400	56,800	100,900	85,200	54,100	108,500	105,100	60,700	117,800
April	86,900	53,300	108,200	86,100	53,900	105,200	79,500	57,000	105,000	84,000	51,600	106,100	111,800	64,500	120,300
March	82,900	53,800	106,900	79,100	54,400	102,400	79,200	55,300	108,400	82,000	53,300	106,900	92,600	54,300	106,700
February	83,400	55,600	107,500	81,500	54,000	109,800	70,900	55,200	98,200	82,000	55,300	105,600	103,500	59,600	118,900
January	86,400	55,300	107,900	77,700	52,900	104,800	74,200	55,400	101,800	86,200	55,200	108,100	103,400	59,900	111,300
2019
December	86,400	54,400	105,700	79,500	54,000	98,500	70,200	54,400	96,100	87,900	54,600	106,900	97,700	52,100	107,600
November	81,600	52,100	107,100	79,200	49,400	113,100	73,400	50,600	104,000	79,500	52,500	104,800	101,400	54,100	114,700
October	81,700	53,900	103,800	80,600	61,200	101,600	72,100	53,800	100,200	81,600	52,500	103,400	96,600	58,800	109,100
September	81,500	55,600	101,800	84,100	59,600	103,700	71,900	55,900	98,400	80,200	55,100	99,300	99,500	55,300	113,000
August	84,100	49,200	107,900	81,900	45,700	101,200	75,700	52,500	99,800	81,400	48,700	106,600	107,500	48,200	120,700
July	82,000	54,000	106,500	88,000	51,600	129,500	74,400	53,900	105,700	78,100	54,900	100,300	108,400	45,700	121,000
June	84,400	52,800	103,800	84,800	57,800	109,100	72,600	52,700	97,100	83,400	53,200	100,500	100,600	47,000	118,800
May	78,100	53,800	98,100	76,400	49,200	105,200	72,300	56,000	98,100	75,800	53,600	95,000	96,300	55,000	106,800
April	78,900	55,700	100,700	82,000	59,300	109,000	70,800	56,700	91,900	77,100	54,000	99,300	95,400	63,600	109,100
March	78,900	50,400	102,100	74,500	48,000	98,400	71,300	49,900	96,300	77,800	50,900	101,600	92,900	49,100	108,500
February	85,000	52,600	107,600	74,100	52,300	97,500	72,500	56,000	97,200	84,800	52,600	106,600	103,100	43,500	119,400
January	81,800	53,400	103,400	86,600	60,100	109,000	68,000	54,200	98,000	81,100	51,400	101,700	95,800	59,000	110,400
2018
December	82,400	52,100	106,000	79,600	57,500	93,600	74,300	53,800	96,400	80,100	51,500	104,900	101,400	51,600	120,400
November	79,900	55,400	100,500	81,400	52,300	104,700	74,100	56,200	101,900	77,100	54,600	97,800	99,300	62,600	107,800
October	82,400	54,500	106,000	81,600	59,300	96,200	73,100	56,700	94,300	79,800	53,500	105,900	105,100	57,300	116,500
September	83,600	54,400	105,400	78,800	57,600	97,300	76,700	58,300	105,500	81,600	51,900	104,500	102,600	62,000	111,600
August	81,500	55,100	100,900	82,900	58,400	113,000	73,600	54,500	97,800	79,800	54,500	98,100	97,400	57,600	110,300
July	78,900	52,000	99,300	73,600	33,900	100,600	79,600	57,300	104,500	74,900	51,300	94,000	102,800	59,300	118,200
June	85,400	54,900	101,300	82,400	52,900	97,500	77,400	52,700	99,700	83,200	55,100	97,100	105,000	57,600	122,900
May	81,200	57,100	99,100	81,700	62,400	104,300	72,500	57,600	92,900	79,000	56,300	97,000	104,000	60,300	108,900
April	74,900	50,600	98,700	87,300	54,900	109,900	67,300	51,600	92,800	71,100	48,600	95,300	103,100	67,400	113,400
March	70,600	49,800	91,400	70,900	50,400	96,600	67,700	50,600	93,800	68,900	50,000	88,900	82,900	45,800	98,700
February	73,400	47,900	93,800	80,400	50,800	98,200	72,100	49,700	98,000	70,600	46,700	91,200	87,100	53,900	100,600
January	69,000	47,300	92,100	79,500	52,400	106,000	59,300	44,900	85,600	64,400	46,300	85,900	98,900	59,400	114,200
2017
December	72,900	53,400	91,800	76,900	49,200	100,300	64,900	48,700	84,500	70,000	54,000	89,000	96,400	58,600	103,900
November	71,800	46,600	99,100	75,300	49,400	107,000	68,100	48,500	90,500	65,800	45,900	91,600	114,500	49,800	130,300
October	68,300	46,400	95,500	76,300	45,100	96,900	65,600	48,600	88,600	64,200	45,700	93,600	95,200	50,900	106,900
September	71,800	47,100	93,800	72,400	50,800	92,700	62,800	45,500	87,200	68,800	46,600	89,000	95,600	51,700	116,700
August	73,800	47,600	94,300	70,400	50,400	88,700	65,300	48,200	88,600	72,500	47,200	91,500	91,600	46,600	110,900
July	75,300	47,900	93,800	80,700	52,500	102,100	70,900	48,200	89,400	70,300	47,900	88,400	99,700	44,500	111,900
June	75,600	49,500	97,400	84,800	57,300	95,500	69,400	49,900	94,300	70,800	49,300	91,600	106,300	46,600	125,000
May	71,800	49,100	87,900	78,800	55,500	93,300	64,600	45,200	84,400	68,500	49,400	84,000	94,900	47,800	104,500
April	73,300	47,400	89,900	79,600	53,800	100,200	63,900	47,800	84,500	70,900	45,500	86,600	93,000	57,200	104,300
March	70,100	50,800	88,000	76,900	56,700	100,700	64,500	49,600	83,900	67,000	50,700	84,600	89,800	49,400	99,400
February	71,000	48,700	92,500	86,500	48,700	96,300	61,500	46,800	84,700	66,200	48,400	87,300	104,200	59,000	115,100
January	68,100	44,900	89,700	84,700	59,900	99,600	59,800	45,800	85,100	64,600	44,000	85,900	93,600	45,800	107,100
2016
December	73,100	49,900	90,800	73,900	44,200	92,800	67,100	45,000	85,800	71,400	50,100	89,000	85,900	56,000	101,500
November	71,700	47,000	90,900	70,800	45,500	94,000	58,900	46,500	84,700	72,100	47,100	88,000	89,200	48,100	108,900
October	71,600	48,300	87,400	75,300	45,700	90,700	60,200	47,600	81,300	71,300	47,500	84,700	85,100	54,100	104,000
September	69,400	46,700	93,000	79,600	55,400	101,800	62,400	46,100	96,500	65,300	45,400	89,300	93,900	58,000	99,000
August	74,200	50,000	93,100	86,100	57,500	106,600	60,800	45,500	84,300	71,600	46,100	91,300	95,000	79,900	99,600
July	73,300	49,500	91,000	73,900	53,400	103,600	65,900	48,200	91,700	70,200	47,700	87,100	96,800	67,700	100,600
June	70,500	46,600	87,000	85,000	50,900	113,700	61,500	45,100	84,100	66,800	44,900	81,500	89,000	57,100	100,300
May	71,300	45,800	87,800	75,900	45,900	99,600	63,500	46,700	86,600	69,800	45,000	84,600	83,500	48,000	96,400
April	67,800	44,100	87,500	78,600	45,400	100,100	61,600	45,900	86,900	64,900	42,500	85,000	85,400	53,900	92,900
March	69,800	44,500	88,300	72,800	45,100	103,200	59,200	46,200	83,200	69,600	44,100	86,300	83,200	42,500	97,000
February	67,600	43,900	92,600	81,500	50,000	97,300	57,900	45,600	85,100	65,300	43,000	89,700	84,800	45,400	106,600
January	67,600	45,900	84,100	69,400	48,100	90,700	61,400	48,200	86,800	65,200	44,600	80,200	86,900	50,000	96,100
2015
December	70,800	46,200	88,100	74,200	52,100	95,300	63,300	46,600	85,900	69,200	45,700	85,500	84,400	44,600	96,400
November	68,000	44,300	89,400	79,000	52,500	90,600	61,100	47,300	84,500	63,200	42,500	84,000	96,100	51,000	110,300
October	66,800	43,800	84,900	77,100	45,100	95,200	56,500	43,100	79,700	65,500	43,200	82,200	78,900	47,300	95,400
September	70,700	48,400	87,700	71,600	54,400	91,400	63,900	50,600	83,900	68,500	46,800	85,500	90,100	49,700	97,900
August	67,000	42,900	87,100	73,300	53,600	94,100	61,600	45,700	90,000	62,800	39,400	80,700	89,200	48,200	106,400
July	64,500	44,400	83,700	68,000	47,700	83,100	62,600	48,500	84,600	59,800	42,900	78,400	88,200	46,800	101,000
June	69,100	45,500	87,500	68,100	53,200	90,700	60,500	45,900	84,200	66,100	44,000	83,700	93,700	46,700	102,800
May	69,500	47,300	89,100	69,500	46,100	84,700	61,800	43,000	92,600	68,100	49,000	85,600	83,400	44,200	100,700
April	67,400	46,900	86,500	69,400	48,900	88,800	59,700	47,900	75,000	64,700	46,800	82,200	89,600	45,100	111,100
March	66,200	46,100	85,000	89,000	52,300	114,000	60,900	47,400	86,400	63,200	44,100	80,300	79,300	53,600	96,600
February	68,300	46,200	87,000	66,500	50,000	88,800	59,600	47,500	80,600	65,900	45,600	84,200	90,200	45,500	99,600
January	68,400	44,600	84,400	64,700	45,600	77,200	57,000	43,700	78,300	64,600	44,900	79,400	102,500	42,600	107,700
2014
December	64,800	46,200	78,100	68,100	55,300	77,500	57,000	45,600	72,900	62,000	45,500	75,000	86,900	52,600	91,800
November	64,200	43,700	83,500	80,500	58,000	98,300	61,600	47,600	84,700	59,100	39,900	78,300	84,800	57,400	95,100
October	62,400	46,000	76,900	63,400	50,900	73,600	64,500	50,900	78,700	59,000	44,400	74,700	77,100	47,100	84,700
September	67,000	43,600	82,600	71,900	45,000	88,500	59,000	41,600	78,500	66,000	44,500	80,900	80,200	39,900	90,100
August	67,100	44,200	87,600	71,700	43,100	93,600	60,200	46,800	80,900	66,400	43,300	87,800	75,400	45,800	88,900
July	63,500	45,400	80,100	57,900	43,900	73,300	61,600	45,200	77,800	61,200	45,700	77,800	79,300	45,200	92,900
June	65,200	44,900	84,000	73,800	47,000	94,900	58,700	45,600	81,200	62,600	44,600	81,000	82,300	44,200	92,300
May	65,400	45,700	78,300	62,900	50,200	76,200	61,700	46,800	79,600	64,000	44,200	76,100	77,400	49,000	88,900
April	66,400	44,700	83,000	61,300	44,000	82,500	59,100	45,700	78,500	66,100	43,900	81,300	77,100	47,600	92,900
March	65,700	43,200	83,900	76,400	43,100	91,600	58,100	45,100	81,800	63,600	42,400	82,100	84,400	46,700	90,300
February	64,300	45,000	82,200	59,100	40,600	76,200	59,700	44,800	86,100	62,200	44,800	79,700	79,600	48,800	90,800
January	68,300	48,000	84,500	72,100	48,700	92,600	72,000	51,400	88,200	63,800	46,900	80,700	87,700	55,400	93,900
1 Includes manufactured homes with more than two sections.
Note:  Estimates include manufactured homes that are sold and those intended for sale for residential use.
Note:    The Census Bureau has reviewed this data product for unauthorized disclosure of confidential information and has approved
the disclosure avoidance practices applied.  (Approval ID: CBDRB-FY23-0317)
Source:  These data are produced by the U.S. Commerce Department’s Census Bureau from a survey sponsored by the
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Part IV – Based on Federal Data, Implications of Total U.S. Manufactured Housing Production Data by Year Since 1998 to 2023

MHVille	U.S. Production
Year	Production
1998	373,143
1999	348,075
2000	250,366
2001	193,120
2002	165,489
2003	130,815
2004	130,748
2005	146,881
2006	117,373
2007	95,752
2008	81,457
2009	49,683
2010	50,056
2011	51,618
2012	54,881
2013	60,228
2014	64,334
2015	70,544
2016	81,136
2017	92,902
2018	96,555
2019	94,615
2020	94,390
2021	105,772
2022	112,882
2023	89,169
	3,201,984

If 1998 production level of 373,143 had continued for each of the 26 years that total of production could have been = 9,701,718

Take that 9,701,718 potential (at constant 1998 level) – 3,201,984 actual production = 6,499,734 difference.

That 9.7 million homes that could have been produced in 26 years given the 1998 pace having hypothetically held annually – vs. the 3.2 million homes that were actually produced reveals a total deficit or difference of about 6.5 million

 

Part V – Additional Information with More MHProNews Analysis and Commentary

In no particular order of importance are the following insights and observations.

1) For a few years, MHProNews spotlighted a Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) generated “industry overview” or “quick facts” that they seemed to suspend from public access. When it was pointed out by MHProNews that MHI had suspended sharing that document publicly, they once more made it available publicly. However, a key item from that document was tweaked by MHI before it was published.

 

 

 

2) But on this same date, now MHI has once more made an item they call their “Industry Overview” publicly available instead of “members only.”  However, it is different than their prior versions of “Quick Facts” or “Industry Overview.” There is a plant map which shows where manufactured home production centers are found. There are statements made about manufactured housing, but the visuals and factoids previously provided are missing.

This isn’t earth shattering, but it does reflect several points that MHProNews has been reporting for some time. Among them is that MHI can and does make decisions to vanish in an arguably Orwellian fashion information that for their own reasons they decide at that time do not fit their narrative or agenda. For instance, the percentage of new manufactured homes going into communities is no longer provided in the 2024 Industry Overview, which are posts on this date and not a download.

From the MHI 2020 Quick Facts (May 2020):

• 63% of new manufactured homes are placed on private property and 37% are placed in manufactured home communities.

From the MHI 2021 version of that document (May 2021) was this statement.

• 69% of new manufactured homes are placed on private property and 31% are placed in manufactured home communities.

From the MHI 2022 version (August 2022):

• 49% of new manufactured homes are placed on private property and 51% are placed in manufactured home communities

From the MHI 2023 version (June 2023) is this statement.

• 31% of new manufactured homes were placed in manufactured home/land-lease communities in 2021.

At least on this date (6.27.2024), there is no apparent download from MHI on this placement topic, and their posts do not appear to provide this data. But note that MHI in 2023 provided 2021 data, previously provided in 2021 only reworded?

Now, compare what MHI said above to what the U.S. Census Bureau provided to MHProNews (this is some of the same info as provided in Part II above, but placed in closer proximity to what the reader is comparing it to for reader ease.  The bold is added by MHProNews.

 

3)

a) Based on Part V #2 above which links the referred to MHI “Quick Facts” or “Industry Overview” by year, it would appear that MHI’s 2020 report is referring to 2018 information provided by the Census Bureau. Not 2019, not 2020, but 2018.  If someone scrolls further into that year’s document, that is clarified on a different page, but there is no clarification on the page where the data quoted above is first presented by MHI.

b) Similarly, the MHI 2021 data appears to be based upon the Census Bureau’s 2019 report. Once more, that is not clear from the first usage, but is clarified for someone that might be detail minded pages later in their document.

c) In the 2022, it is 2021 data that MHI is used, not 2020.  But that year, the Census Bureau began providing additional information that clarified that in 2021 “Insider Communities” actually meant more than just “land lease,” because just below the data shown reflects that only 31 percent of those placements went into a land-lease manufactured home community, such as their members like: Equity LifeStyle Properties, Sun Communities, UMH Properties, Flagship Communities, Legacy Communities, etc. might be purchasing for resale or rental purposes. Whether this was incidentally misleading or deliberate on the part of MHI is an open question. At a minimum, it was arguably sloppy on the part of MHI, because a reader would have to intuit from one remark pages apart how it relates to something pages later.

d) It isn’t until MHI’s June 2023 update that they state that the information provided is from 2021.  Note that prior versions of this particular fact-checked item should be reconciled with this article’s new revelation.

New Manufactured Homes Placed	2023	2022	2021	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016	2015	2014
(For Residential Use)
Inside Communities (2021 – )2	55%	59%	51%	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
Land-leased / manufactured home community	29%	36%	31%	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
Private property in subdivision or planned unit development	27%	23%	21%	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
Outside Communities (2021 – )3	45%	41%	49%	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
Other private property	44%	41%	49%	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
Somewhere else	1%	0%	0%	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
Inside Communities (2014 – 2020)	X	X	X	27%	31%	37%	32%	34%	34%	33%
In a park, court, or community	X	X	X	23%	26%	34%	29%	31%	32%	30%
In a subdivision or planned unit development	X	X	X	4%	4%	3%	3%	3%	3%	3%
Private Property (2014 – 2020)	X	X	X	73%	69%	63%	68%	66%	66%	67%
Not in any of the above	X	X	X	73%	69%	63%	68%	66%	66%	67%
Titled as Personal Property	76%	73%	77%	78%	76%	77%	76%	77%	80%	80%
Titled as Real Estate	20%	21%	19%	19%	19%	17%	17%	17%	14%	13%

 

 

4) One of the effects of the problematically stated use of MHI’s information is that it served to suggest that in August 2022 report that placements in land leases significantly were higher than they actually were. As the Census Bureau explained: 31 percent went into a land lease, while some 21 percent went into “Private property in subdivision or planned unit development.” The other 49 percent went onto private property outside of a land-lease or private-property subdivision style community, per the Census Bureau.

 

5) The above also sheds light on some of MHI’s publicly traded members who produce homes (e.g.: Skyline Champion (SKY) and Cavco Industries (CVCO)) that were sold to community operators such as Equity LifeStyle Properties, Sun Communities, UMH Properties, and Flagship Communities.

Yes, shipments going into land-leases from 2022 compared to 2023 declined. But the mix going into land-lease from producers by year, per the Census Bureau, is as shown below.

	2023	2022	2021
Land-leased / manufactured home community	29%	36%	31%

 

See reports from MHI members Cavco and Skyline Champion for specifics on their remarks about delays and reductions of shipments going into land-lease communities.

 

 

 

6) The National Association of Realtors and Fannie Mae recently released new housing data previously reported that indicate that higher housing and lending costs are among the factors depressing the new and resale housing markets.

 

 

Over the first four months of 2024, the total number of single-family permits issued year to date (YTD) nationwide reached 336,124. This is an increase of 25.3% on a year-over-year basis over the April 2023 level of 268,205.https://t.co/vZ8rmdIofD

— NAHB 🏠 (@NAHBhome) June 25, 2024

Note that the tweet (X-post) below reflects that the NAHB doesn’t mind making a reference to the NAR. Which begs the question, why does MHI seem to pretend that there is no MHARR, which has existed since 1985? Especially since MHI and MHARR have previously collaborated in getting legislation useful to the industry enacted?

Existing home sales fell for the third straight month in May because of lingering high mortgage rates and record-high prices, according to the National Association of Realtors (NAR).https://t.co/gdsyRln7Ed

— NAHB 🏠 (@NAHBhome) June 24, 2024

According to the The State of the Nation’s Housing 2024 report from @Harvard_JCHS, rents and home prices have increased 26% and 47%, respectively, since 2020, primarily affected by a lack of housing inventory. https://t.co/OAXMnIf0zu | #realestate #housing

— NAHB 🏠 (@NAHBhome) June 21, 2024

 

7) Facts and evidence like the above build upon the insights from the Andy Gedo redux, explored in the report linked below, which was part of our coverage of the Innovative Housing Showcase.

 

 

8) Far more costly conventional housing has witnessed a YoY increase in building permits of 25.3% in the first four months of 2024, per the NAHB.  Earlier this month, MHARR said that the latest official “statistics indicate that HUD Code manufacturers produced 8,971 new homes in April 2024, a 34.37% increase over the 6,676 new HUD Code homes produced in April 2023. Cumulative production for 2024 now totals 33,248 homes, a 19.3% increase over the 27,850 HUD Code homes produced over the same period in 2023.” Meaning, while manufactured housing production has increased – as have single family building permits – the rate of increase for less costly manufactured homes is lower than the rate of increase for more costly conventional housing.

 

9) What occurs after a home leaves the production center is by definition a post-production occurrence. That falls into the bailiwick of MHI, because MHARR’s stated focus is production-related regulatory issues.

 

10) To better understand why manufactured housing is struggling when favorable federal laws exist yet are not being properly or consistently enforced, a view that both MHI on paper seemingly agrees with MHARR on, the reports for the week in review provide more detailed facts and insights.

Don’t miss today’s postscript.

With no further adieu, here are the headlines for the week in review from 6.23 to 6.30.2024.

Part VI – Weekly Headlines in Review

What’s New on MHLivingNews

 

 

 

 

What’s New from Washington, D.C. based MHARR

 

 

 

 

 

Selections from Author-Speaker Tim Connor, CSP, Words of Wisdom (Among our MHVille Exclusives)

 

 

What’s New or Recent from the Masthead

 

 

 

 What’s New on the Daily Business News on MHProNews

Saturday 6.29.2024

 

Friday 6.28.2024

 

Thursday 6.27.2024

Wednesday 6.26.2024

 

 

Tuesday 6.25.2024

 

Monday 6.24.2024

 

Sunday 6.23.2024

 

 

Postscript (Part VII)
1) Since our report on Friday 6.28.2024, Joe and Jill Biden have both made it plain that they intend to stay in the 2024 race, despite a performance that has been panned even by numbers of influential Democrats (see report linked here and above). Former President Barack Obama has per reports attempted to reassure the Democratic donor class that Biden can successfully stay the course.

2) That noted, several post-debate polls reflect the common view that Biden lost and Trump won the debate.

• Per the left-leaning The Hill, which cited left-leaning CNN’s poll:  “More than two-thirds of viewers of Thursday’s debate between President Biden and former President Trump said the Republican won…

The Daily Mail’s flash poll said:

• Some 68 percent said Donald Trump came out on top of the clash
• Some 62 percent said he [i.e.: Joe Biden] should be dumped from the [Democratic] ticket.

Data for Progress reported about their post-debate poll the following.

When asked who won the debate, among voters who watched the debate or read about it, 30% say that Biden won, while 62% say that Trump won.

 

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3) Left-leaning Morning Consult said:

So this is how republics die. Not with a bang but with the hoarse ramblings of their ageing leaders. Few events have shone a light on ‘American decline’ as much as Joe Biden’s sad, impassive performance in last night’s CNN presidential debate. Here was the leader of the free world speaking in faint, broken tones, and struggling to stay focussed, and at points seeming to blank out entirely. Before the eyes of the world, it became clear: this man is too old, too frail and too infirm to be at the helm of America.

And yet, Old Joe’s physical infirmity is not the thing that should horrify us. Everyone ages, everyone withers. No, it is the moral infirmity of the Democratic establishment that is truly chilling. It is those who are so bent on power that they’ll force a frail man on to the world stage to do their bidding who deserve our ire. It is the media movers and shakers who said ‘Joe is fine’, and who damned the concerned as ageist cranks, who have behaved atrociously. Behind Biden’s physical decay is the far graver problem of the moral decay of a ruling class that will lie, gaslight and bully just to stay on top.”

Ouch. Tell us how you really feel about this O’Neill. Note, typo’s in these quoted segments are in the original.

…At times, Biden glitched completely. Fourteen minutes into proceedings, and then again 22 minutes into proceedings, his mental faculties seemed to betray him and he just stalled. The moderator, Jake Tapper, had to save him at one point, delivering a merciful ‘Thank you, Mr President’ after he malfunctioned during a muddled commentary on Covid or Medicare or something.”

…He was a shadow of his old self, and you found yourself wondering if he’d make it to the end of the debate, never mind through another four years of steering the free world.

It was so bad that even the liberal media, like groundhogs finally stirring from hibernation, piped up and said: ‘Is there something wrong here?’ The kind of people who said ‘Joe is fine’ as he stuttered and stumbled through speeches and meetings are now wondering if actually Joe might be knackered. Overnight, the New York Times has been gripped by dread over Biden’s health. ‘Biden cannot go on like this’, says one headline. ‘He must bow out of the race’, says another. This is the same New York Times which just last year was thundering against ‘the manufactured panic over Biden’s age’. When us plebs raise concerns about Biden’s wellbeing, it’s fabricated crap. When the Old Grey Lady [MHProNews note: Grey Lady a.k.a. New York Times] does it, it’s legit.”

The panic now sweeping through Democratic circles feels enraging. You want to shout: ‘Where have you people been?’ ‘Democrats panic as Biden stumbles in bad-tempered debate with Trump’, says the Financial Times (‘stumbles’ – still with the euphemisms). Dem bigwig Van Jones says Biden ‘didn’t do well at all’ and should now consider ‘taking a different course’. Seeing him so scrambled was ‘personally painful’, said Jones. According to reports, party strategists are discussing the possibility of replacing Biden ahead of the election. That noise you can hear is the scales falling from a thousand eyes.

These overnight worriers for Biden’s wellbeing are utterly without shame. For all of them belong to that credentialled class that has either been content to ignore the blazing signs of Biden’s waning health or have actively conspired in playing it down. For years these people gaslit the American populace. Biden’s in tip-top shape, they said, as if millions of Americans haven’t nursed old relatives through the twilight years and seen with their own eyes what age can do. Just three months ago, CNN’s own one-time White House correspondent, John Harwood, damned the talk of Biden’s ‘alleged mental decline’ as ‘utter bullshit’. Now CNN platforms a presidential debate in which that mental decline becomes abundantly, terribly clear.”

O’Neill then lashed the insiders who covered this up from readers/viewers with gaslighting, half-truths, and outright deceptions.

In truth, the ‘utter bullshit’ came not from people concerned for Biden’s health, but from an establishment hell-bent on disguising Biden’s withering. Their gaslighting was ceaseless. When a New York Times poll in March found that 73 per cent of Americans agreed – ‘somewhat’ or ‘strongly’ – that Biden is ‘just too old to be an effective president’, journalism professor Jeff Jarvis raged: ‘This is not journalism.’ It is ‘shameful’, he said, to make age an ‘issue’. Time slammed the ‘ageist attacks [on] President Biden’. ‘Biden’s big problem? Your ageism’, sneered one columnist at bigoted America. Just this month, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said video clips of Biden looking lost and confused are mostly ‘cheap fakes’ made by right-wingers in ‘bad faith’.

Here’s the truly sinister thing: many of these people who said Biden was fine knew he wasn’t. They knew the White House insisted he always be flanked by minders, lest he stumble physically or verbally, in what was known by insiders as ‘Operation Bubble Wrap’. They knew he had become so frail that even special counsel Robert Hur decreed he should not be charged for keeping classified documents because he is an ‘elderly man’ with ‘poor memory’ and ‘diminished faculties’. They knew he was receiving regular physical tests but not cognitive tests, for fear of what might show up. They knew but they denied and lied and snapped at any uppity member of the public who said ‘Is Biden okay?’.”

Spiked’s O’Neill, wrapped by saying this.

And why did they cover up Biden’s troubles? For power. In order that they might still rule. Out of naked, brutal self-interest. The Democratic elites and their footsoldiers in the cultural establishment are painfully aware they have few big-hitters who can connect with the public. Kamala Harris? Please. Gavin Newsom? Even Californians have tired of him. So out of desperation, they put blusher on Old Joe, fed him lines they prayed he would remember, and sent him out in a wretched bid to secure their own political clout and cultural hegemony. Behold the ruthlessness of the technocratic class. We now know there’s nothing they won’t do to fortify their authority. We can feel sorry for Biden, but for the rest of them we should feel only contempt.”

O’Neill has been quoted saying: “Columnist Brendan O’Neill says the ‘Left liberal establishment’ are the militant wing of political correctness.”

According to left-leaning Bing’s artificial intelligence (AI) powered Copilot is the following Q&A on O’Neill.

Is Brendan O’Neill with the U.K. based Spiked a leftist?

 

Sorry, Copilot, but when someone identifies as a “Marxist” anything sounds left-wing. So, here is one more from the political left ripping Democrats and Democratic leadership as being power hungry, out of touch with the common men and women they claim to represent. Recall that just days ago Democratic Congressman and former Democratic presidential hopeful Set Moulton (MA-D) admitted that Democrats are the party of the “ultra-wealthy” and “ultra poor.”

 

7) Another example of the ‘cover up’ of Joe Biden’s condition is the following from former left-leaning New York Times editorial (op-ed staff editor) department’s Bari Weiss. 

Bari Weiss: They Knew

Biden is no longer fit to be president. Last night’s debate exposed the lies we’ve been told.”

Rarely are so many lies dispelled in a single moment. Rarely are so many people exposed as liars and sycophants. Last night’s debate was a watershed on both counts.

The debate was not just a catastrophe for President Biden. And boy—oy—was it ever.

But it was more than that. It was a catastrophe for an entire class of experts, journalists, and pundits, who have, since 2020, insisted that Biden was sharp as a tack, on top of his game, basically doing handstands while peppering his staff with tough questions about care for migrant children and aid to Ukraine.

Anyone who committed the sin of using their own eyes on the 46th president was accused, variously, of being Trumpers; MAGA cult members who don’t want American democracy to survive; ageists; or just dummies easily duped by “disinformation,” “misinformation,” “fake news,” and, most recently, “cheapfakes.”

Cast your mind back to February, when Robert Hur, the special counsel appointed by the Department of Justice to look into Biden’s handling of classified documents, came out with his report that included details about Biden’s health, which explained why he would not prosecute the president.

“We have also considered that, at trial, Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory,” Hur wrote. “It would be difficult to convince a jury that they should convict him—by then a former president well into his eighties—of a serious felony that requires a mental state of willfulness.”

Can anyone doubt that characterization after watching Biden’s debate performance?  …”

8) In a Real Clear Politics report pre-debate (6.22.2024) “Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) on Friday’s episode of ‘Real Time’ told HBO host Bill Maher that former President Donald Trump would have never been on trial if his last name wasn’t Trump and if he was not running for president.” Here is a transcript of the relevant discussion.

BILL MAHER, HOST: The trial in New York, the one he got convicted for, was the greatest fundraising bonanza ever. He is now, he was lagging behind Biden and now he’s pulled quite a bit ahead. That trial was the greatest reason people had to send their checks for $5, 10, 25, whatever dollars, to Donald Trump.

So I was always with you on the one in New York, the hush money trial. I don’t think they should have brought that one. It was just always going to look like a sex case and people were always just going to look at it that way. So anyway.

FORMER GOV. ANDREW CUOMO (D-NY): That case, the Attorney General’s case in New York, frankly should have never been brought. And if his name was not Donald Trump, and if he wasn’t running for president from the former AG in New York, I’m telling you that case would have never been brought. And that’s what is offensive to people. And it should be. Because if there’s anything left, it’s belief in the justice system.

So, a Democrat – Cuomo, a leftist who at one point was thought of as a likely Democratic candidate for the presidency, and Maher, a leftist who makes the periodic effort for balance, took shots at the validity of the so-called “hush money trial” in a heavily Democratic district, by a judge who would not recuse himself even though Judge Juan Merchan’s was a known Biden donor.  The right-leaning U.K. Daily Mail said:

• [Judge] Juan Merchan’s daughter, Loren, 34, works for progressive digital strategies firm Authentic Campaigns 
• She [Loren Merchan] was a digital director for Vice President Kamala Harris’ 2020 presidential campaign and has worked for a slew of other Democratic campaigns

Trump mentioned during the debate that the conviction would likely be overturned on appeal. It should be, based on those insights alone. Every American is guaranteed a trail by an unbiased jury of their peers. The New York case was fraught with political corruption and had Democratic fingerprints all over it, as Cuomo (D) and Maher indicated.

9) Weiss, arguably more of a centrist, and O’Neill, in their own ways revealed just how problematic much (not all) of the coverage of Joe Biden has been for the last 4 years. A string of lies and deceptions were at least partially exposed in last Thursday’s debate.

What does this have to do with manufactured housing? Duh! The federal government has their hands all over our profession, and many others too. It is apparent that some information that isn’t convenient for the narrative of powerful is buried, denied, lied about, and the opposition is often smeared.

Look. No one has to believe that Trump is a saint. He’s not. Trump has his flaws, and his supporters know them. But much of the left-leaning media, and some ‘never Trumper’s’ on the center-right, have smeared the man as if he was Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, and Chairman Mao all rolled into one. That was always nonsense. Trump wasn’t the war monger that he was accused of being before he took office or once again now. That “Two Minutes of Hate” Orwellian style tactic is designed to keep those independents and those who are on the left (or are otherwise ‘never Trump’) in the left. 

Numbers of claims made by Biden in 2020 have since been proven to be clever lies or deceptions. For example. Biden and Hunter knew that laptop belonged to his drugged addled son. That letter Biden referenced from 51 intelligence agency connected professionals. In hindsight, it was a “psy-op” involving our nation’s spy agencies being deployed against Americans. The CIA – among others – has a history of such operations in foreign nations, but it is not supposed to be deployed against Americans. For over 100 years, several Democrats and some Republicans (e.g.: Presidents Bush senior and his son “W“) have deployed information operations against U.S. citizens to sway elections and/or lead the public into voting in ways that more honest statements would have likely meant no war for Americans would have followed.  Some Democrats and certain Republicans have warned against such vexing problems. But obviously the public is more easily swayed when big media (now, big media and big tech) are allowed to work with public officials and/or political leaders to mislead and deceive the public.

10) In a sense, it doesn’t matter if Biden stays in the race or if someone else takes his place as the Democratic candidate for the White House. Either way, the party’s leadership obviously knew the truth and covered it up. It would be foolish to reward their deception with your votes. While Republicans have at times raised the issue, some in the GOP have been complicit. Now ousted Congressional reps Adam Kinzinger (IL-R) and Liz Cheney (WY-R) are among them.