Whatever your political viewpoint – left, right, center, or meh – the upcoming 2020 presidential, congressional, and state races will have a serious impact on your business and investments. So it pays to be in the know. Tonight’s spotlight report will follow our left-right headline review. On a day when …
Mark Fleming, Ph.D serves as the chief economist for First American Financial Corporation. He’s been popping up more on various business news shows, so the Daily Business News on MHProNews decided to share the flavor of Fleming’s economic and housing insights. It ought to be one of those rally points …
RE Focused Economist Says, ‘Millions of Housing Units’ Needed Read More
“Stung by recent critiques and fact checks of MHI [Manufactured Housing Institute] before, during, and after the recent Innovative Housing Showcase – for which they have no good response – MHI had to try to change the narrative.” A source with long, ongoing ties to MHI said the above in …
The 45th President of the United States (POTUS), Donald J. Trump deserves his own F35 White House flyover as part of his birthday celebration. It was a creative step in many ways, to let allies and potential allies know the value of working with the U.S. It also sent a …
MHProNews has periodically dipped into the topic of criminal justice reform, for a variety of reasons. First and foremost, there have been numerous cases of over-sentencing. But beyond that, there is a need for labor too. Thanks to record high employment and low unemployment rates, the opportunity for those …
When the cost of crude oil goes up or down, sooner or later, the cost for transporting a manufactured home will also routinely rise or fall. So, this evening’s market focus is on the literally explosive situation off the Iranian coast near the Straights of Hormuz, where much of the …
“Facts are stubborn things.” “Assuming that the meaning of “new” hasn’t changed recently, “new” means “not done before.” And, if “new” still means “new,” then it also means, by definition, that there is no pre-existing loan performance data for that “new” class of home – because it’s … well … …
Investigating Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac Over Duty to Serve Manufactured Housing Read More
Union Springs is located in Alabama. According to Wikipedia, “Union Springs is a city in and county seat of Bullock County, Alabama, United States. The population was 3,980 at the 2010 census.” The population, per at least two online sources, appears to be trending down. “Total Population: 3,785,” in 2018, …
For the relatively small numbers in MHVille that follow only other manufactured housing industry trade media, not this platform, they would be almost completely in the dark about the forming battle lines about bipartisan antitrust concerns. While the various political voices may have differing approaches or solutions, they nevertheless broadly …
HUD Secretary Ben Carson has been promoting manufactured homes as a sustainable private-sector element to the affordable housing crisis since early in his tenure at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). That acknowledged and saluted, as much as Secretary Carson has been striving to do, his factually grounded …
People invest in, open or maintain a business with certain goals in mind. Among them is to serve a slice of the public, and for ‘white hat’ operations, to earn a profit honorably in some form or fashion. The ways that honest profit can be earned are as many …
Retailers. Communities. Have you noticed how relatively quiet word from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has been in the past 6 months? Yesterday, June 11, marked the first six months of Director Kathleen L. Kraninger taking the helm from acting director Mick Mulvaney. Mulvaney has since moved on …
In a media release, the News Media Alliance published a study that examines ‘Anti-Competitive Behavior’ and what it costs their industry. This obliquely impacts every American, and in several ways touches upon issues that matter to the manufactured housing industry too. Testimony has taken place before Congress on this topic. …
With enough patience, facts and patterns in dispute often reveal themselves more clearly to those with an open mind who are honestly seeking clarity. By definition, the closed-minded can’t be reasoned with. This report will have two primary components. The first will be from the recent and positive Innovative …
Joe Stegmayer, Cavco Industries, MHI Chairman, Insights from Innovative Housing Showcase Read More
WAVY is one of several mainstream news outlets that came up in a Google search for “Innovative Housing Showcase” (IHS) and “Manufactured Homes” on 6.10.2019. That’s more than a full week after the event – which ran from June 1-5, 2019 – began. The WAVY report was fine, with a …
Country music star John Rich and ‘The Five’ comic co-host Greg Gutfeld co-wrote the new song, which is posted further below. 96.9 the Kat cited these as some of the song’s ‘catchy’ lyrics. “Shut up about politics ain’t nothing but a big pile of dirty tricks I’m tired of all …
Country Star John Rich Performs ‘Shut Up About Politics’ – Manufactured Housing Takeaways Read More
On a day when the largely markets rose, an interesting item to look at tonight is a tie-in with the tariff controversy. One will recall that Kevin Clayton decided to weigh in on the tariff issue, ICYMI, or need a refresher, see that linked here. On the same left-of-center business …
Starting at about the 37:18 time mark on the video below, Governor Kristi Noem, the first female governor for the state of South Dakota, is where her part of the program begins. Noem addressed the Turning Point USA Young Women’s Leadership Summit (YWLS) 2019 on June 9, 2019. She didn’t …
Governor Kristi Noem Tells Young Woman too Many People are Governed by Feelings Read More
“Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson has kept a relatively low profile since taking office, but he’s excited to show the American people what he’s been doing,” said the Daily Caller, a right-of-center media outlet. “The Daily Caller News Foundation traveled to the Innovative Housing Showcase to see what …
The ubiquitous Drudge Report linked up an interesting report from France 24 that said that there is another surge in interest in George Orwell and his writing, including the classic novel, 1984. Interesting, because MHProNews has recently used quotes from Orwell in various reports to spark thoughts that insightful …
George Orwell, All Issues Are Political Issues, Manufactured Housing Challenges, and You Read More
