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Got a Fair Housing Complaint? HUD Awards Millions More in Anti-Discrimination Efforts

  The key to this press release from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to the Daily Business News on MHProNews might be boiled down to these pull quotes.  The:   ·        …Department’s Fair Housing Initiatives Program (FHIP) to help people who believe they have been victims of housing discrimination …

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Insider Tip – “Selling Access” to HUD Secretary Ben Carson, Manufactured Housing Institute’s Latest Razzle Dazzle

The definition given by Dictionary of the noun razzle-dazzle reads in part as follow, with the bold added for emphasis: “Informal. showiness, brilliance, or virtuosity in technique or effect, often without concomitant substance or worth; flashy theatricality: The razzle–dazzle of the essay’s metaphors cannot disguise its shallowness of thought.”   The Urban …

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Government Forces Sale of Manufactured Home Community, Case Ruling, Details

  It was a case battled by the community owner’s attorney, who was joined by that state’s manufactured home association in an amicus brief.  But a state appeals court ruling settled a legal battle in favor of a municipality’s right to take that land-lease community under eminent domain power, in …

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“Warren Buffet’s Exploitative Mobile Home Investment” Kori Hale in Forbes Rips Clayton Homes, Berkshire Hathaway’s Predatory Manufactured Home Practices

Starting with the featured image, which may have been provided by a Forbes staffer, and moving on to terminology errors, it must be noted that Kori Hale’s allegations against Warren Buffett led Berkshire Hathaway’s Clayton Homes and related lending units includes inaccuracies.  But that doesn’t mitigate the fact that the …

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Early PreFab Leader Sears Sues Eddie Lampert, Treasury Secretary Mnuchin for Alleged Billions of ‘Theft,’ Plus MH Market Updates

Sears was a leader in precut housing a century ago.  More recently, it still had strong ties to the housing industry, as the purchase of a new or existing house often led shoppers to their local Sears to buy new TVs, appliances, drapes, and such.   So it isn’t so odd …

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“Baseless Discrimination Against HUD Code Manufactured Homes”

In a release to the Daily Business News on MHProNews, the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR), is pressing the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to repeal the use of their “Formaldehyde Health Notice.” MHARR’s statement says in part that they opposed the “baseless discrimination against HUD …

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“Less Waste, Better Buying” – Earth Day and Manufactured Housing Image-Building

The conventional housing seller or buyer’s wisdom, pardon the pun, is that manufactured homes cost less because they are “cheaper.” How does the industry respond to that common concern? A pair of Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) member producers responded to questions on that topic today, to MHProNews or to MHLivingNews.  …

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State of Blue-Collar Workforce White Paper, Plus Manufactured Home Stock Updates

As a debate is stirred by several Democratic 2020 presidential hopefuls about ‘free college,’ or student loan debt forgiveness, a recent report spotlighted positive news about the blue-collar sector. On a day when 2 of the 3 major markets rose, and industry stocks closed largely lower, that white paper on …

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B2B Statistics, Trends 2019 – April 2019 Snapshot of Manufactured Home Professional Readers

  Research compiled from several sources as reported by Get Codeless yielded the following bullets about blogging trends and related business to business (B2B) marketing data.  The importance of their factoids will be more apparent further below. Latest Blogging Statistics and Trends in 2019:   The average blog post length …

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Deer Valley Homebuilders Release w/Video Underscores Surprising Clayton Homes, Berkshire Hathaway Connections

Deer Valley Homebuilders (DVLY) has issued a press release that will be featured further below. But their release obliquely spotlighted several issues that could easily make Deer Valley a case study on the ways that Clayton Homes, 21st Mortgage Corporation, and Warren Buffett led Berkshire Hathaway’s ability to influence the …

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HUD Secretary Carson to Host Innovative Housing Showcase Featuring Affordable Housing Solutions

  Late last March, the Department of Housing and Urban Development notified MHProNews that there would be a special “Innovative Housing Showcase.” That initial release is now more useful to spotlight, for reasons that will become obvious.  Let’s start with the guts of their statement. “WASHINGTON – U.S. Department of …

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Legacy Housing Corporation’s $10 Million Stock Repurchase, Plus Manufactured Home Market Updates

Days before the drama that culminates with Easter, Legacy Housing announced a $10 million-dollar stock repurchase agreement.  There are times when as trade media it makes sense to hang back a bit to see how an announcement like that plays out.  This evening, we’ll survey the Legacy (NASDAQ:LEGH) announcement, and look …

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Infographic – Mapping How Much A Buyer Must Earn to Buy Median Priced House

  HSH, HowMuch, and Visual Capitalist have pulled together data that yielded the following information presented. It’s arguably useful data for those savvy manufactured home industry professionals who happen to be near the various markets that are spotlighted. Before diving into the data, let’s note the tragically obvious. There is …

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Unique Shipping Container Home, Lessons for Factory Builders, Manufactured Home Professionals

Spoiler alerts. First, this isn’t a tiny container house. The second spoiler alert is that this video doesn’t give the cost of the completed project.  What we know from other container housing projects is that they are significantly higher than a HUD Code manufactured home. But what makes this one …

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Bill Advances New Rules Regulating Manufactured Home Communities, Esther Sullivan Strikes Again

  The specific piece of legislation that will be the focus of this report is just part of a pattern that is arguably spreading from the coasts into the heartland states. In the wake of the hue and cry from the Last Week Tonight with John Oliver viral “Mobile Homes” …

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Manipulating Manufactured Housing Pros – Caterwauling Mudslinger, Just Write a Check, Pay Cash, Use Plastic, and Shut You Up

Jealousy. Lunacy. Hypocrisy. Once was, award-winning, former community-investor George F. Allen bemoans MHARR, begs them and NAMHCO for unity with MHI, all while assailing this platform. Will someone in his circle please show him how to use the GPS app on his phone? Or is Allen still navigating by using …

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“You Cannot Tax People Into Prosperity,” Housing, Taxes, Policy Failures, Plus MH Market Updates

Here’s the number that industry professionals and investors need to consider every morning, during the day, and before going to bed at night.  $330 billion a year in prefab housing market potential here in the U.S. When you consider that factoid, per Amazon Alexa Funds estimate, and consider the notion …

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Wells, Chase, Citi Mortgage Lending Plunges, Plus Manufactured Home Stock Updates

The Daily Business News on MHProNews will take step back in time to January 19, 2019, when Andrea Riquier with MarketWatch reported on a noteworthy trend.  This will tee up the first of a periodic series of reports on what Harvard’s Eric Belsky called the ‘life blood’ of housing, financing. …

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