There are voices in manufactured housing that are floating a variety of reasons for the poor results in 2018, and the continuingly poor performance to start out 2019. Those reasons could be listed, in no particular order of importance, such as: – Weather, – FEMA, – Inventory adjustments by retailers, …
There are numerous states that experienced a downturn in new HUD Code manufactured home shipments in December of 2018. Each of those, to varying degrees, merit their own story. One that experienced a pronounced drop was the #1 production and shipment state in the U.S., which is the state of …
There’s plenty of reasons why manufactured housing ought to be performing much better than it has been. The report featured this evening is about a survey by BankRate. Properly understood, their data could be added to the list of reasons why much more sales growth is possible. On a day …
Study – Top Reasons People Can’t Buy a House? Plus, Manufactured Housing Stock Updates Read More
HUD Secretary Ben Carson is periodically featured on MHProNews for what should be obvious reasons. Among those is the fact that the agency he heads is the primary regulatory body for HUD Code manufactured housing. In a new video interview, Secretary Carson talks Opportunity Zones, President Trump and allegations of …
There are several kinds of people when it comes to President Donald J. Trump, or any other human being for that matter. Some will only look at the name, and what they think is bad about the man, for whatever reasons. Yet anyone who looks into a mirror closely enough …
President Donald Trump Talks About Factory Built Housing Legend to Scouts Read More
The home has a hitch. It’s set up on blocks. There are wooden shims, much like those found under millions of manufactured homes. Helen’s home is a rectangle, a box. The deck is big, but there are plenty of those found on thousands of manufactured homes. So, what is it …
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) is a multinational professional services network headquartered in London, United Kingdom and PwC ranks as the second largest professional services firm in the world, says the firm’s website. Their revenue in 2018 was reported at $41.3 billion USD, roughly 5¼ times the size of all manufactured housing industry sales …
Sheila Dey, JD, is the Executive Director and General Counsel of the Western Manufactured Housing Communities Association, per their website. Dey is well known in many parts of the industry and leads one of the purportedly stronger and better-funded trade groups in manufactured housing. To dot the i’s and t’s …
This troubling story out of the northern U.S. is one that periodically crops up in state-after-state. As Amy Bliss, the Wisconsin Housing Alliance (WHA) state association executive director recently said to MHReview (MHR), “The biggest reason for community closures is because the municipality revokes the license to operate because the …
Accurate news is whatever it is. Facts are what they are. Then, there’s spin, hype – or worse. Others, not us, in MHVille trade media – those who sing the Arlington, VA songs – have been talking about sunshine and “momentum.” Well, it turns out that they were right. The …
MHLivingNews recently featured a report where Democrats and Republicans came together in a bipartisan way to support manufactured homes as an important part of the solution the affordable housing crisis in their state. That report is linked here and below. Those lawmakers looked at facts, figures, and the reality of …
According to their website, “The Open Markets Institute uses journalism to promote greater awareness of the political and economic dangers of monopolization, identifies the changes in policy and law that cleared the way for such consolidation, and fosters discussions with policymakers and citizens as to how to update America’s traditional political economic principles …
In 2018, Statista says that there were some 127.59 million households in the United States. In their analysis of what several Democrats are now referring to as the “aspirational” Green New Deal (GND), estimates that the housing cost component of the plan could range from $1.6 trillion to $4.2 …
There has been scuttlebutt among talking heads in media about a looming recession for months. People with the ‘right’ credentials are asked, and they soberly express their opinions – which they are entitled to – as to why they think that a recession is looming. MHProNews has pushed back against that …
Housing Economists Projections from NAHB, CoreLogic, Nationwide, and MHVille Read More
“After hearing from more than 15,000 people and consulting with many experts, the City saw both support and need for a tax on empty homes in Vancouver. A 2016 City of Vancouver survey found that more than 90% of Vancouver residents surveyed agreed that empty homes were a problem; a …
Love him. Hate him. Agree, disagree or be ‘meh’ about his policies and politics. Ignore the scandals attached to his wife and himself if you wish, because hundreds of thousands of donors clearly have. Senator Bernie Sanders, a self-proclaimed socialistic independent from Vermont has announced he is running for the …
A manufactured home community (MHC) professional told MHProNews that the single largest competitor for our industry is subsidized housing. Ponder that statement. That and the recent Daily Business News on MHProNews report linked here and further below about ‘appalling’ are apt backgrounds for the following stern warning from the U.S. …
HUD Warns PHAs, Manufactured Housing Pros – Take Note Read More
The data that follows is according to a February 11, 2019 report from the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) delivered by email to their members. The Arlington, VA based trade group issued it with their normal copyright notice, but as their attorneys know, there are specific circumstances when copyrighted materials can …
In New York State, numerous incidents connected to manufactured home communities and manufactured homes has been making news. But not in a positive way. Recently, there were several dozen cases of rent-to-own or ‘contract-for-title’ transactions by community operators that caught the ire of the N.Y. State Attorney General’s office. …
Manufactured Home Community Residents on ‘Rent Strike,’ Republican Lawmaker Calls Foul Read More
Let’s be clear. The publishers of MHProNews are political independents. We believe that affordable housing is a non-partisan issue. A new report stresses the notion that Democratic and Republican lawmakers can and are working across the partisan political divide to promote manufactured homes as an important part of the solution …
