There is not always a direct or perfect correlation between the rise in the Federal Reserve rate and mortgage rates. So observed a 35-year mortgage industry veteran in comments provided to MHProNews a few months ago. That observation has been born out once again by the latest information from the …
The Institute for Building Technology & Safety (IBTS) is contracted by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to gather the data on production and shipments by state for HUD Code manufactured homes. So IBTS’ data is essentially HUD’s official data. Additionally, information obtained by MHProNews from the …
“One in eight millennials moved home with their parents in 2022. … Millennials will be home for Christmas, and all they want are lower rent prices.” So reported Fortune on 12.7.2022. While others in MHVille continue to act (or pretend…) as if everything is somehow ‘normal’ in manufactured housing during …
“The Pew Charitable Trusts is a public charity formed in 2003 from the merger of seven foundations created by the Pew family, which made its money in the oil business. It operates the Pew Research Center as a subsidiary.” So says “Influence Watch” which says that “Capital Research Center [CRC] conceived of this …
The answer to the headline question “Has the Manufactured Housing Industry Become a Target-Rich Environment for Plaintiffs’ Attorneys?” objectively speaking should be ‘it depends.’ There are clearly several examples of current and pending litigation over issues both well-known as well as opportunities (from a legal standpoint) that are less obvious …
“Texas housing manufacturers expect rebound in early 2023” says the latest press release from the Texas Real Estate Research Center to MHProNews. That follows several months of reports with fact checking and analysis that revealed factual and evidence-based disconnects between what TRERC and the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) affiliated Texas …
The Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) media engagement efforts in 2022 apparently created new wrinkles for the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI), their corporate leaders, and for public officials to consider. How so? Via routine press releases on monthly national manufactured housing production and top ten shipment states data …
Matt Stoller is an antitrust writer/researcher. Stoller is the author of the book Goliath and of the BIG newsletter which are focused on the problems and news associated with monopoly power in America. In his 12.5.2022 issue, Stoller asserts as his theme that increasingly political leaders on the right are …
Manufactured Housing Properties Inc is among the newer arrivals to the blossoming trend of acquiring manufactured home communities, which is often misnamed by mainstream and others in media as ‘mobile home park investing.’ As of September 15, 2022, publicly traded Manufactured Housing Properties Inc (OTC: MHPC) states that their corporate …
Most ‘news’ is to a significant degree backward looking. History matters in national, local, professional or industry – including manufactured home industry (a.k.a. MHVille) – related issues. There are issues that have little or no relationship with collusions or conspiracies. But there are some issues where the facts and known …
The latest information about HUD Code manufactured home production from the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) revealed that the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) alleged efforts to depress manufactured housing shipments to lower levels are perhaps finally succeeding. Manufactured home production fell in October 2022 year over year from …
In recent years, among the typical issues that one hears or reads about manufactured housing tends to involve the following. A) zoning/placement, B) financing, C) news involving some variation of ‘predatory behavior’ that often involves a manufactured housing sector consolidator, D) about a publicly traded firm and their stocks, E) …
“Just think back to December 2019… When you sat down to write out your business plan. Remember how excited you were? You thought 2020 would be your biggest year ever… But what happened? Boom… Covid happened.” So said entrepreneur and popular author/speaker Patrick Bet-David (PBD) who went on to say …
Stating the obvious can be a potent method for bringing clarity to an issue. When finding housing under $200,000 has become quote – “a myth” – manufactured housing ought to be soaring to all time highs. Was that mentioned by the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) in their latest emailed “news” …
“Merriam-Webster, America’s oldest dictionary publisher, has just chosen “gaslighting” as its word of the year. Searches on its website for the word have spiked by 1,740% in 2022, according to the company. Gaslighting is the act or practice of grossly misleading someone, especially for one’s own advantage.” So said the BBC …
“Riley Moore is West Virginia’s [WV] 25th State Treasurer and was elected in 2020. Born in Morgantown, Treasurer Moore started his career as a welder,” says a page on that state’s website. After taking on Blackrock and “woke capitalism” as WV Treasurer’s, Moore is now planning a run for Congress …
“Our mission is to fight homelessness with dignified living, getting the homeless off the streets and in a sustainable, supportive community environment benefiting themselves, the community, and the city’s economy.” So says the About Us page on the Kansas City, Kansas (KCK) Eden Village website. “Eden Village of Kansas City …
1) Apparently notorious Frank Rolfe with Impact Communities/”Mobile Home U” has argued that there ought to be no new ‘mobile home parks’ developed. What Rolfe calls ‘mobile home parks’ are often more properly known today as manufactured home communities. In fact, more manufactured home communities, both land lease and fee …
According to the Better Business Bureau (BBB) pre-dawn on 11.26.2022, Flagship Homes has a “Business Response Rate of 0%.” While Flagship Communities website boasts that they are a “Manufactured Housing Institute” (MHI) 2022 “Excellence in Manufactured Housing” “Award Winner,” 0ne must consider that source. In stark contrast to being an …
“Six of the eight legislators who endorsed the idea [of rent control] will be in the majority next year,” said the 11.21.2022 issue of CapCon, the nonprofit news publication produced by the Mackinac Center for Public Policy. So, Michigan Capitol Confidential’s headline proclaimed: “Rent control could be coming to Michigan …
