As the median sales price for a house in the U.S. rose to a record $442,525, the share of U.S. homes worth $1 million or more has hit an all-time high, according to the right-leaning Wall Street Journal. The upward push of housing values in the conventional housing market, should …
Only one of the headline items are manufactured housing specific, and it is posted in the pull quote from Rachel Siegel with Pew research, below. She said: “Manufactured homes are an important source of housing, and more manufactured homes are part of the solution to America’s housing shortage.” That is …
“This is not sensible policy, and I think the biggest hope is that it ends up being a lot of rhetoric and no reality,” said Obama-Biden (D) administration Harvard economist Jason Furman in an interview with the left-leaning New York Times about Kamala Harris’ price-control plans. “There’s no upside here, …
According to a recent left-leaning CNN survey some 86 percent of renters can’t afford a house, and such surveys routinely mean a ‘site built house. Of those 86 percent, 54 percent think they may never be able to buy a house, per CNN. Those facts ought to sound like …
In a post that is dated 8.19.2021 – almost exactly 3 years ago – Jim Ayotte of the Florida Manufactured Housing Association aptly said that: “It’s not rocket science.” “The FMHA press release was issued to elevate Florida’s worsening housing affordability problem, to make the case that factory-built housing needs …
To help financial insecurity, Kamala Harris (D) began to lay out a plan to take on “big food companies,” “big pharma,” and ‘exploitation’ in the housing market, she said in campaign event in North Carolina yesterday. It has been almost a month since Joe Biden (D) stepped aside from his …
“Facts are stubborn things.” According to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB): “In 2022, about 189,000 loans secured by manufactured homes were originated, compared to 228,000 such loans in 2021. About 142,000 manufactured home loans were originated for home purchase, down slightly from 148,000 in 2021. Among them, about 79,000 …
“UMH Properties, Inc. has a 55-year history of providing quality affordable housing. UMH owns and operates a portfolio of 135 manufactured home communities containing 25,800 developed homesites situated in 11 states. UMH also has an ownership interest in and operates two communities in Florida, containing 363 sites, through our joint …
In a post on their website entitled “How U.S. elections could impact multifamily real estate,” J.P. Morgan Chase said: “The upcoming election cycle could affect housing regulations, infrastructure spending and other legislation critical for multifamily housing” on 8.8.2024. While J.P. Morgan Chase may be better known for its involvement in …
A left-leaning CNN data guru says in a report posted below that the race is close, but that the momentum appears to be in favor of the Kamala Harris-Tim Walz Democratic ticket. That was prior to an event hosted on X by its centi-billionaire owner, Elon Musk who bought Twitter …
Shale Magazine said that “George S. Patton” was “The colorful commander [who] is said to have remarked, “I don’t like paying for the same real estate twice.” For Patton, of course, he was talking about not wanting to spend on troops and resources to recapture an area he already overtook.” …
According to the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) website resources section is their declared: “2024 MHI Policy Objectives.” Five different categories are mention on the date (8.10.2024) that this fact-check and related analysis occurred. Those five areas of MHI’s policy objectives focus are as follows. 1) Energy Standards for Manufactured Housing. …
“Google monopoly ruling shows 19th-century law can police Big Tech” said the headline on the left-leaning and Jeff Bezos owned Washington Post. “The first big tech-sector anti-monopoly ruling in a generation challenges the idea that the internet era has outgrown U.S. antitrust law.” Left-leaning Bloomberg Law News said: “Holland & …
The top referral website to the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) for May-July 2024 was the Cavco Industries (CVCO investor page, according to SimilarWeb. The specifics on that and more items of importance to investors, public officials, manufactured housing industry pros, researchers and others peering into the often-opaque world of manufactured …
According to Law360 on 7.2.2024: “A manufactured housing company took advantage of its Massachusetts mobile home park tenants “for illicit financial gain” by charging them illegally excessive rents, not providing renewing residents with required five-year lease.” Noting the use of problematic terminology in the prior and following, regional news outlet …
In the 21st century, 2022 was the best year for manufactured housing production since 2007 – when manufactured housing produced 117,373 new HUD Code manufactured homes – while 2022 produced 112,882 new manufactured homes per annual production data found at the link here. That noted, the manufactured housing “industry’s production …
Manufactured home production increased modestly in June 2024, per data provided by the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR), which in turn bases that on the official information collected on behalf of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). That information is found in Part I of …
Citing MarketBeat, Bing’s AI powered Copilot said on 8.4.2024 that: “SG Capital Management LLC recently made a new investment in Legacy Housing Co. (NASDAQ: LEGH). They purchased 71,197 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $1,532,0001. This investment was disclosed in their latest Form 13F filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission1.” According to …
Should the pending trillion-dollar taxpayer funded housing plan spotlighted by self-described socialist attorney Fran Quigley and proposed by Congressional Representative Ilhan Omar (MN-D) and manufactured housing related legislation become law, manufactured housing will be upended in several ways. The statements by Quigley and the press release by Rep. Omar’s office …
Is it as simple as “predators vs. progress” in contemporary manufactured housing? That notion was posed by Google’s artificial intelligence (AI) powered Gemini on 8.2.2024, which said in the remarks found in Part I below that the manufactured housing industry’s: “analysis highlights the need to look beyond a simple “predators …
