Author name: MHProNews

There are several reasons why this Opportunity Zone is a periodic topic here on the Daily Business News on MHProNews.  Today’s feature may help bring some of those threads into clearer focus.  The short version could be said like this. Some of the most economically challenged areas – over 8,000 […]

  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

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

  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

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

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

When a blind person leads another blind person, both can trip and fall. Millions have watched the various versions of this life of Jesus based upon the Gospel of Luke. It is a series of vignettes.  Among them is the possessed man who has the demons driven out of him,

From what was seemingly the most humiliating defeat in earth’s history, to the most glorious triumph, all in the span of a few days. That’s what a surprising victory looks like. In the life of Jesus as recorded in the sacred texts, there is an episode that we could all

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

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. 

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

  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

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

  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

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

  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

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

  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”

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

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