What’s Keeping the Manufactured Housing Industry from Attaining Is Full Potential? Years before the Urban Institute asked last January, “Manufactured homes could ease the affordable housing crisis. So why are so few being made?” MHProNews and MHLivingNews explored that very topic, day by day, story by story, video by video, …
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” – George Orwell, per Goodreads. What does that quotation mean? “The meaning of this statement is that someone can redefine who they are and, in fact, what a society is by being able to …
There will be a special report later this evening on the entry of the Blackstone Group (BX) into the manufactured home community space. They’ve been added to our evening closing ticker recap. But tonight’s feature will be on the economy. Despite concerns over tariffs, trade and the latest faux gaff, …
There are numerous points that mainstream media pundits are passing over or missing in the latest economic report. Certainly, the major news outlets fail to mention manufactured housing (MH) at all when it comes to economic data and potential impact. The Daily Business News will begin by setting …
Q2 Best Economic Growth in Years, Per Federal Data, MHVille Insights Read More
The Daily Business News has been advised of a meeting at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), which took place on July 25, 2018. The focus of that high-level meeting’s discussion? It could be summarized with the following bullets. To: • obtain more personal property financing options …
Virginia’s Lieutenant Governor Justin Fairfax held a series of community meetings on the eviction crisis recently, says Virginia’s Public Radio (VPR) to the Daily Business News. The underlying problem? A lack of affordable housing. “Now some advocates think manufactured homes, also known as mobile homes, could be a part …
It’s no secret that FANG – Facebook, Apple, Netflix and Google – has drawn a growing amount of monopolistic concerns in the last 2 years. It’s also no secret that big tech has faced push-back from the right, which says that FANG often has shown bias for progressives, and animus …
Facebook Faded Fast, Biggest Plunge in History, Plus MH Market Updates Read More
The Florida Manufactured Housing Association (FMHA) spotlighted Adam Putnam earlier this year, after his tour of a HUD Code manufactured home and modular housing factory in Plant City, FL. Ag Commissioner, Gubernatorial Candidate Adam Putnam Tours Palm Harbor Plant Adam Putnam’s connected political action committee (PAC), called ‘Florida Grown,’ …
The Business Journal noted that Equity LifeStyle Properties (ELS) has 409 properties in the U.S. and Canada. The Real Deal touted the ELS Chairman Sam Zell angle, in announcing the $50.35 million dollar purchase price. None of the mainstream media sources bothered to show that the monthly site …
It took under one week from the day since Mark Weiss, JD, President and CEO of the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) and MHProNews/MHLivingNews publisher L. A. ‘Tony’ Kovach reached out to a National Association of Realtors researcher for corrections to be made in their seminal report …
Let’s start with what the bottom-line for professionals and investors should be in this new data-driven housing report. The manufactured home industry demonstrably holds a key to America’s economic growth. The need and market are there. How so? First, let’s look at the facts from the latest conventional …
The weather event earlier this week was first reported as a tornado strike by local media on a “mobile home park1” which in this case appears to be a manufactured home community. Profitably Decoding Windstorm Reports for Industry Professionals Before diving into the details, this Daily Business News …
One of the hot topics among manufactured housing business owners and management today is the ability to recruit a more qualified workers and team members. While there is plenty of anecdotal insights from manufactured home professionals, there is no operation that is known to be publishing industry specific, evidence-based information. …
State of the American Workplace Report, Plus Manufactured Housing Market Updates Read More
“The hotel/hospitality sector represents a huge opportunity for growth and greater adoption of modular construction,” said Tom Hardiman, Executive Director of the Modular Building Institute (MBI). His comment came as a reaction to this video about modular construction, as well as the latest data that he’s reviewed. “In fact,” …
The truth is often hiding in plain sight. Who says? “Sometimes the best hiding place is the one that’s in plain sight.” – Stephanie Meyer, per AZ Quotes. “I’ve found that wherever there is one cockroach in plain sight, many more are lurking behind the corner out …
Freedonia Group’s Comprehensive Incursion into Manufactured Housing Read More
“It’s a Jewish tradition when someone dies to say, “May his or her memory be for blessing.” The actual honorific is “of blessed memory,” a translation of the Hebrew “zikhrono livrakha” (m.) or “zikhronah livrakha” (f.)…I tend to say, “May his or her memory be a blessing.”” – Nina Amir. …
The Commerce Department’s Bureau of Economic Analysis is set to release second-quarter GDP at 8:30 a.m. ET on Friday, but there are whispers from the White House that the numbers could hit the U.S. hit 4 percent in the 2nd quarter of 2018. That GDP preview and some new economic …
Dimon Sounds Off, White House Hints GDP in Q2 Could Hit 4 Percent, plus MH Market Updates Read More
PSA features three victims who tell their emotion stories WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) released today a Public Service Announcement (PSA) to raise awareness of housing-related sexual harassment and to reach persons who are victimized …
Sexual Harassment in Housing – HUD and DOJ Campaign PSA Launched Read More
Marketing is the wide net cast to attract prospects, while sales is a person-to-person experience. We normally focus on more basic items, but today let’s consider a mid level subject that too few know about, much less, understand. It’s HALTS. HALTS = Hungry, Angry, Lonely, Tired, Sick/Stressed. When …
Disruptive Intelligence The status quo is unsustainable. Hold that thought, and we will return to it. Imagine the following. You are walking in a park, your favorite beach, or through some woods. You are in nature. As you walk, you spy in the grass, shrub or sand a …
