“…Trade Minister Moises Naim said the pages of history books are filled with people hanging on to dead ideas. Naim, who created a highly critical TV miniseries about Chavez that was banned in Venezuela, calls it “political necrophilia,” per Yahoo News in their latest in a periodic series of reports …
“Ben Shapiro is a renowned conservative political pundit, syndicated columnist, lawyer, and NYT bestselling author. He is Editor-in-Chief of news and opinion site The Daily Wire and host of the popular video podcast, The Ben Shapiro Show,” says his YouTube page. Fox News has called Shapiro “a leading millennial …
The historic claim-to-fame for millions of Americans with respect to manufactured homes was that they were a great way to start out home ownership for singles and younger families. The other large group of manufactured home owners traditionally has been those approaching retirement, or who are already retired. A …
21% of Americans have no Retirement Savings, and Manufactured Housing Read More
“Home Group, one of the UK’s largest providers of homes for sale and affordable rent, has reported that 52% of individuals would be unlikely to live in a modular home, yet almost 90% failed to identify a modern modular product,” the operation said in a statement in their news blog. …
Home Group Commissions YouGov Study, Most Don’t Understand Modular Homes Read More
“The Coldwater Planning Commission voted unanimously to recommend the City Council approve rezoning 20.6 acres from the township R-3 to the city’s AA — Agriculture Residential – for a 102 lot manufactured home subdivision,” said the Daily Reporter. Leading the charge was Don Westphal. “The petitioners from Farrell-Roeh of Littleton, …
Melissa Lugo thought owning a home “was just not feasible, being a single mom with two kids,” says the Cortland, NY LoHud. She’s a 34 year old New York City school teacher, and grew up in this town north of the Big Apple. In 2017, she applied for every …
Manufactured Home Nonprofit Affordable Housing Initiative Brings Joy, But Hits Wall Read More
The latest Fannie Mae Home Purchase Sentiment Index® (HPSI) is out. It’s near an all-time high, but one category is declining. Affordability for conventional housing buyers is sliding. Manufactured Housing (MH) was MIA – missing in action – from the Fannie Mae report. Manufactured homes aren’t even mentioned. “The …
MIA from Fannie Mae’s Latest Housing Survey, MHI Producer Sounds Off Read More
When it comes to the affordable housing crisis, one of the nation’s hot-spots is Seattle, Washington. Seattle is the headquarters of founder Jeff Bezos’ – the world’s richest man – ubiquitous flagship company, Amazon. In the backdrop of every U.S. affordable housing story, there ought to be an appropriate …
“Trapped. Threatened. Scared. That is how thousands of people across the Front Range are feeling and they all have one thing in common: They live in manufactured homes,” says Denver 7 in their report on a manufactured home community in Thornton, Colorado. At a time when about half of all manufactured homes …
“Trapped. Threatened. Scared.” “Mobile Home [SIC] Owner’s Fears Reflect National Crisis” Read More
A new report by the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI), “A Blueprint for Addressing the Global Affordable Housing Challenge,” defines the affordability gap as the difference between the cost of an acceptable standard housing unit (which varies by location) and what households can afford to pay using no more than 30 …
In any industry, trends are worth noting, and are important for investors, owners, lenders, policy pros, and other professionals alike. As the chart below will spotlight, there have been hundreds of manufactured home communities that have opened since 2002. That’s news to many, not to others, in manufactured …
What could all of those individual topics in the headline possibly have in common? What could each of those current events mean to manufactured housing professionals, owners, investors and advocates? Plenty. Here’s the quick rundown. The glue for each are the two words, “first principles.” Let’s look… The …
“Potential for Higher Returns Lures New Buyers, Generating Competition; Supply of For-Sale Listings Remains Tight, Boosting Prices,” – Marcus & Millichap (M&M) National Report, First Half of 2018 A new research report has been provided by brokerage firm Marcus & Millichap to the Daily Business News. For those in …
“The [association] efforts have come as [Trump] administration officials are embracing manufactured homes as a way to increase the stocks of affordable housing using the private sector rather than taxpayer funding,” writes Juliet Eilperin, for the Washington Post (WaPo). “Already, they [manufactured homes] serve as the largest source of …
In spite of a strong market, American families are facing unaffordable housing, said Fannie Mae CEO Timothy Mayopoulos on FOX Business Tuesday. “The greatest challenge in housing now is not home price appreciation but really affordability for families,” Mayopoulos in his “Mornings with Maria” interview. The government-sponsored enterprise, which is …
CEOs Debate Over Affordable Housing, One Touts Manufactured Housing Concerns Read More
The Washington Post has run a print and online article about the HUD Code manufactured housing program, HUD Secretary Ben Carson, Pam Danner, Lois Starkey, the industry’s national trade associations, and manufactured homes in general. That story, is linked here. In a release do the Daily Business News on …
From time to time, the Daily Business News or MHLivingNews.com discovers or is provided as a tip a column that is re-shared to our readers at length. That’s the case this morning, with a post about manufactured homes written by talk radio host, Tom Egelhoff. Before sharing Egelhoff’s observations …
Before diving into RVHorizon’s/MHP Funds leader Frank Rolfe’s hidden gem, an acknowledgement ought to be paid to his partner Dave Reynolds, and others in their rising enterprise. No one person in an operation of that size does it all solo. When we say Rolfe’s “hidden gem,” it’s an insight …
America is going through a time of upheaval. That’s not news, that’s reality. When rapper Kanye West is making headlines for saying that its time for Blacks to get off the Democratic plantation, that’s a signal for just how turbulent the 2018 midterm elections could be. Don’t count on …
A tip of the hat to the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), which provided MHProNews with the official prepared remarks of HUD Secretary Ben Carson in Las Vegas earlier this week. His comments are provided verbatim, below, and include polite statements to their hosts, and sincere praise …
