It was on 12.13.2015 that award-winning consumer affairs journalist Jan Hollingsworth did a report on the zoning and placement problems vexing manufactured housing that included comments from Clayton Homes, an independent manufactured housing retailer, and then-MHEC member Jay Hamilton. It was entitled “Local Star Chambers Wage War on Affordable Housing.” […]
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The virtue of humility is as important as the thoughtfully applied quality of courage. Humility should not be misunderstood as being a doormat. Work horses come in many forms. Work horses may quietly seem to be plodding along. Then on a given day, looking back, the large field is plowed.
As the battle within manufactured housing industry’s businesses and two primary trade groups rage, new surveys shed light on several hot-button topics. Deep dive reports – mixed with a good dose of satire – like the one linked below may or may not move people who want change to press
Awards are often a thinly veiled marketing tool for those who give an award and for those who accept it. When the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) gives awards, it often gets them nearly free media coverage. When some company brags that they got an MHI award, it gets MHI’s name
HUD Secretary Marcia Fudge said this week in a House Financial Services Committee Hearing that “Until we start to address this [zoning/placement barriers for HUD Code manufactured homes] we are going to continue to be perpetually in this kind of situation.” That sobering line by U.S. Housing and Urban Development
The backdrop to the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) 2021 annual “facts” could be outlined in this fashion. The case could be made that Civic Alliance member Edelman’s claim that there is what they called a “Raging Infodemic” in the U.S. today is quite correct. Indeed, from across the left-right divide,
“A full-time minimum-wage worker can afford a one-bedroom rental in only 7% of all US counties — 218 counties out of more than 3,000 nationwide,” said left-of-center CNN Business in their article on the National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC) report called “Out of Reach 2021: The High Cost of
In the Western U.S. town of Garden Valley, Idaho, the lowest price listing or a house is for a $340,000 pre-HUD Code 1971 mobile home on a modest-sized piece of land. Other listings go as high as $2 million dollars, according to local realtor Jim Jardine and nearby KTVB 7
Freakonomics and other sources say that it was Winston Churchill who first said “Winston Churchill that first said: “Never let a good crisis go to waste.” But it was President Barack Obama’s chief of Staff, Rahm Emmanuel (D) – who later became Mayor of Chicago – who GoodReads cites as
Despite an apparent legal setback, a law firm acting on behalf of manufactured home residents of the 55+ Schalamar Creek manufactured home golf-course resort community is pressing ahead with Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act and Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) class action claims. The targets of the lawsuit
Elisabeth “Liz” Voigt, J.D., has previously worked for HUD, the Obama presidential campaign, and several left-leaning groups, as her LinkedIn profile reflects. She has submitted on behalf of Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund (AFREF) and Manufactured Housing Action (MHAction) comments that will be shown below. Following her comments letter
The deadline for comments to the FHFA on Duty to Serve (DTS) manufactured home lending are looming. Manufactured home connected stocks closed mixed yesterday (7.14.2021), and those business-daily facts are found further below. But today’s featured-focus will be the hot political issue of election integrity. The report and commentary below
This afternoon (7.14.2021), there is the latest “listening session” being held by the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA). With that and what follows in mind, it is not bragging if something is said that is true. MHLivingNews has provided the most comprehensive report to date on the approaching Duty to
Aubrey Huff’s twitter feed describes him like this. “Proud father, international model, & 2 time WS Champ. I believe in God, free speech, America, guns, whiskey, & toxic masculinity. CEO Alpha American.” On July 27, 2020 he tweeted, “It’s easy to be a communist in a free country. But try
On July 11, 2021, MHProNews received the following message from Fred Neil, Dover City Councilman, Dover Delaware. His message speaks for itself, but by way of introduction specifically mentions his residency in RHP Properties. Bayshore Home Sales is RHP Properties manufactured home in community sales affiliate. Neil references the upcoming
A manufactured home resident leader sent MHProNews the following quote. “Capitalism without competition isn’t capitalism,” Joe Biden said per Frommers, before he signed an executive order that he claims will make air travel less costly. “It’s exploitation.” A longtime professional interested in manufactured housing issues emailed MHProNews the following remarks: “You
There is significant effort invested in comparing positions and actions by the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) and the smaller, but feistier watchdog and advocacy efforts at the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR). Against the backdrop of that routine drumbeat of MHI efforts vs. MHARR’s decades of consistency, it
Much of the mainstream media continues to downplay concerns about the 2020 election and claims of election fraud. That noted, fresh public opinion polling reflects far more common is the belief that Big Tech and companies like Facebook, Google, and Twitter could influence an election one way or another. As
In a the first of two press releases, CASA announced on Tuesday that it would be filing suit in what it called an “Explosive Lawsuit Protecting Tenant Rights in Montgomery County, Maryland.” A series of tweets, see example below, and the second media release on 7.7.2021 stated the following, per
In response to an inquiry about a Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) webinar on Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) advocacy, this comment was emailed to MHProNews. “Now that’s chutzpa[h]. Pay us $25 to tell you what we’re doing with the dues money that you already pay.” Chutzpah is defined by left-leaning Wikipedia
