“Softwood lumber prices are now about 112% higher than they were a year ago and have jumped 10% in just the past week, according to Random Lengths. Increased demand for single-family housing, much of it driven by the coronavirus pandemic, has housing starts up 30% year over year, according to […]
Lesli Gooch, Ph.D., CEO of the Berkshire Hathaway-Clayton Homes backed Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) said in previously filed comments that “The first 3-year period of the GSEs’ Duty to Serve process has ended, and the Enterprises are still making no progress in actually purchasing chattel loans.” Gooch also said: “…MHI
American Enterprise Institute (AEI) Housing Center provided MHProNews with the news item below earlier today. AEI’s Director Edward Pinto, J.D., report stated the following. Nowcast: 10 metros most threatened by high numbers of FHA delinquencies (February 2021 Update) While Atlanta and Houston are the metros most at risk from
In a post-COVID19 America where some have been partially locked down for significant periods of time, certain questions should be asked. Among them is this one. Are dangers increasing for management, staff and residents in manufactured home land lease communities? Fox 5 in Atlanta reported on the arrest of “Alberto
Rush Limbaugh died last month, but the Rush Limbaugh Show will continue airing for the “long term” with rotating guest hosting the Rush Limbaugh Show. Those guest hosts will air audio clips of the popular Limbaugh – a revered conservative broadcaster – mixed in with their own commentary and discussion
As our industry’s professionals should know, words and their meaning matter. When you challenge special interests and the system, expect the system to push back. A reporter for the left-leaning New York Times discussed the origins and meaning of the term “deep state” in a video interview. The reporter explained
Topic two in our headline is tonight’s featured focus further below. Regarding the slide reported today in existing housing sales by the National Association of Realtors (NAR), that spells possible opportunities hiding in plain sight. From the National Association of Realtors (NAR) press release earlier today to MHProNews and others
The Warren Buffett ‘dark money’ supported Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) has released a report entitled “Cashing in on Our Homes.” Left-leaning Common Dreams is one of several platforms spotlighting IPS’ “Cashing in on Our Homes” subtitled “Billionaire Landlords Profit While Millions Face Eviction.” IPS ironically – or tactically?
Sometimes the best place to hide is in plain sight. A Psy-Op or psyop is defined by left-leaning Wikipedia as follows. “Psychological operations (PSYOP) are operations to convey selected information and indicators to audiences to influence their emotions, motives, and objective reasoning, and ultimately the behavior of governments, organizations, groups,
For Henry “Simons, the most important policy change to limit poverty and inequality was “the elimination of monopoly in all its forms.’’” So says a pull quote by Federal Reserve researchers James A. Schmitz Jr. and David Fettig. A few more pull quotes will tee up this MHProNews report and analysis
In a case filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas, Galveston Division, twenty state attorneys general joined Texas for a total of 21 states that are suing over the Biden executive action that aimed at cancelling the Keystone Pipeline. Biden “issued Executive Order 13990, which
James A. Schmitz Jr., Arilton Teixeira, and Mark L. J. Wright, published and provided the power point slide presentation that follows as one of the references in a 2020 published Minneapolis Federal Reserve report on the harm caused by monopolistic practices. The Schmitz-Teixeira-Wright trio cite classic antitrust (i.e.: antimonopoly) arguments
Unlike the National Association of Realtors (NAR), the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB), the Recreational Vehicle Industry Association (RVIA), or the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR), the Arlington, VA based Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) makes getting accurate and reliable information about HUD Code Manufactured Homes difficult at
The following media release from HUD will be followed by an MHProNews Analysis and Commentary on how this aligns with third-party data plus recent statements as promoted by the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI). U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development – Marcia L. Fudge, Secretary Office of Public Affairs, Washington,
“The estimated Net Worth of Mark J. Yost is at least $37.1 Million dollars as of 11 March 2021,” said Wallmine. “Mr. Yost owns over 70,421 units of Skyline Champion Corp stock worth over $15,697,597 and over the last 3 years he sold SKY stock worth over $17,716,970. In addition,
In a land where losers can become ‘winners’ via oceans of legends, legal loopholes, lawyers, and layers of lies, the words “don’t tell me, show me” come to mind. Our profession and scores of others are impacted by media that produce a mix of accurate, inaccurate, or utter falsehoods. How
The term prima facie means “based on the first impression; accepted as correct until proved otherwise, says the Oxford Languages dictionary. Fraud, says Oxford Languages is defined as “a person or thing intended to deceive others…” Beyond first impressions, the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI), their inside leadership, MHI outside counsel,
The manufactured housing industry has been in what pure data indicates could be described as a prolonged Bearish Market type trend. The Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) has quietly stopped issuing monthly “economic reports” like the one shown here, but has nevertheless continued to provide certain annual snapshots for those who
As newcomers or longtime readers alike should know, the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) for years provided their readers with what they called their monthly “economic report.” However, in recent months, the Arlington, VA based MHI has for whatever reason apparently stopped providing such information to their email readers. Further, to
If some industry professionals might believe that Kevin Clayton, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway (BRK) owned Clayton Homes, could make a personal appearance at a municipal planning commission meeting, they would be correct. But the meeting attended last Thursday March 11, 2021 in Townsend, TN has no apparent direct connection with
