One of the happiest, sharpest guys I know is a former alcoholic. He’s been in AA – Alcoholics Anonymous – for over 2 decades. Proficient in his business – we met due to manufactured housing – he adapts and rocks on in his part of the country. That’s a true …
Berkshire Hathaway owned Acme Bricks has been caught up for over a month in allegations that seek to tie Bill Gates, who owns significant holdings in Berkshire (BRK) and sat on their board until March 2020, sometimes Warren Buffett, and other billionaires. The claim is that assaults on law enforcement …
There are few things more important to main street business and investors that having maximum certainty. As Kurt Kelley, J.D., has said, the rule of law is the foundation for a sound economic system. quote The Black Lives Matter (BLM) website says that: “On July 13, 2013 we disrupted business …
People are moving out of cities and out of several specific states. For example, New York City (NYC) lost reportedly lost 59,000 in 2019 alone. According to BisNow, “Its population shrank by a half-percent to 8.4 million between 2017 and 2018, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Almost 1.4 million …
The American Enterprise Institute Housing Center’s data that will follow further below are framed in part against pre-and post-pandemic trends. That makes sense, because millions of businesses, workers, and others are concerned with what lies ahead. Investors crave certainty, so the saying goes. There are several things that appear to …
“The way to defeat bad ideas is by exposure, argument, and persuasion, not by trying to silence or wish them away.” “The free exchange of information and ideas, the lifeblood of a liberal society, is daily becoming more constricted.” “The restriction of debate, whether by a repressive government or an …
There are any number of reasons why manufactured housing should be surging instead of struggling as it has been for some 15 (+/-) years. The headline report is potentially one of them, but first let’s consider some other points. An aspect of the HUD Code manufactured home industry’s woes the …
Representative Ilhan Omar held a news conference on “systemic racism” with Minnesota leaders on Tuesday 7.7.2020. CBS Local said that “Rep. Ilhan Omar, whose represents the congressional district” that George Floyd’s tragic death and the subsequent civil unrest have occurred. Omar took to television cameras and microphones to make her …
Left-of-center Yahoo News is among the news outlets that have spotlighted a video from right-of-center Fox News interview with White House Trade Adviser Peter Navarro. India is one of the nations that is pushing for Chinese accountability in their purported mishandling of the Wuhan Coronavirus pandemic, also known as COVID19, …
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms took to the news media’s cameras and microphones on Monday after that city was rocked by the death of an eight-year-old killed in broad daylight while traveling in a car. Atlanta is one of numerous cities and town where violence has spiked in the aftermath …
Psychologist Chrysalis Wright, Ph.D. who studies media and reporting has said that even though no one wants to do it, to get a clear snapshot of what is actually occurring on many topics, there is a need to source from more than one media outlet. MHProNews has taken that stance …
The following is data collected by the IBTS – Institute for Building Technology and Safety – gathered on behalf of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The report is from the Washington, D.C. based Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR). The MHARR report and analysis is …
For two months running, job creation – or recreation – has outpaced expectations. The hope of a so-called V shaped recovery have been growing. But has media across the left-right media divide have reported, the numbers of newly reported daily cases of COVID19 has surged past 55,000, according to the …
An email from a resident of a manufactured home community in a deep blue state includes the following unedited words. It should be noted that prior messages from that same source were veritable rages against President Donald Trump. “The problem I have is simple: People on bsides [i.e. both sides] …
Media has an ability to spotlight and issue, twist, morph, or blow it out of proportion. Has any of that occurred with the post-George Floyd slaying at the video recorded hands of a Minneapolis police officer? Views on that will vary according to who is asked. That said, stop and …
FactCheck says that flight logs reveal that Bill Gates only flew once on Jeffrey Epstein’s infamous “Lolitta Express.” That flight log reportedly isn’t to the deceased Epstein’s “Pedophile Island” in the Caribbean. However, the left-of-center New York Times revealed that there were numerous meetings between Bill Gates. Gates his own private aircraft. …
The video below was produced on May 20, which is useful for the purposes of this report. Because some of the news since then has been positive, as today’s strong jobs report reflects. Additionally, the indications from #1 Texas reflects some level of recovery in the manufactured housing market. Those …
By far the largest state in the United States in terms of manufactured home production and shipments is Texas. The first graphic below makes that factual point. While Texas doesn’t always reflect the same trends as national data does, it often does. The Texas data should be considered in the …
This evening’s featured focus is provided courtesy of Chief Executive magazine, which has provided MHProNews with a ‘sneak preview” into their full annual research results on CEO pay and related in the coming weeks. That report is found further below. But first, let’s look at some new data from left-of-center …
“If this country doesn’t give us what we want, then we will burn down this system and replace it.” – Hawk Newsome, chairman of Black Lives Matter of Greater New York. Source: Newsweek. “We are trained Marxists.” – Patrisse Cullors, Black Lives Matter (BLM) co-founder. Source: progressive Real News …
