The evolving Daily Business Newsmarket report sets the industry’s stocks in the broader context of the overall market stocks. By spotlighting the headlines – from both sides of the left-right media divide – this report also helps readers see what are the trends and topics that may be moving the …
Guru Frateschi – MH Stock Poised for BIG Gain, Plus Market Updates Read More
Several recent industry events have highlighted just how significant the incorrect use of jargon – terminology – is for manufactured housing retailers, communities, producers and others who serve, supply, and support the industry. For instance, the Ohio Manufactured Home Association (OMHA) and their state’s resident group struggle to keep their …
Lies, Fables and MH Impact – A Rose by Any Other Name… Read More
The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) manufactured housing program administrator, Pamela Beck Danner, JD, or another person there authorized the issue of an Interpretive Bulletin (IB) concerning “frost-free” and frost-protected manufactured housing foundations in freezing climates. The HUD IB was issued on June 23, 2017, states the Manufactured …
While lumber costs have risen for all of housing – including factory builders – fuel prices are falling. In fact, CNN Money reports that prices are the lowest they’ve been in about 12 years. NBC News in the video below echoes that reality, stating that prices are expected to stay …
Manufacturing employs some 12.3 million workers in the United States. That represents about 9 percent of the workforce, says the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM). The Institute for Supply Management (ISM) tells MHProNews that American factories powered up in June, 2017. Production centers are at their fastest pace in nearly …
Latest Manufacturing Report from ISM, with NAM, Other Industry Insights Read More
Cost-effective housing today is a growing problem for employers and educational institutions alike. Google recently announced their plans to turn to modular construction to help ease their employee housing crunch. Now, Western Dakota Technical Institute (WDTI) is turning to modular building for on-campus living for the first time. WDTI is …
Technical Institute Looking to Modular Student Housing Read More
Because Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway has such big chunks of the manufactured housing industry’s production, lending, suppliers, and more – the “Oracle of Omaha’s” thoughts are carefully followed by the industry’s professionals. In a recent video interview with Judy Woodruff on PBS, the discussion included a look at what should …
The evolving Daily Business Newsmarket report sets the industry’s stocks in the broader context of the overall market stocks. By spotlighting the headlines – from both sides of the left-right media divide – this report also helps readers see what are the trends and topics that may be moving the …
Spotlight=UFPI vs. Deltic – Patrick Gainer, Cavco Leads Decliners, MHCV Slides Read More
With 1 out of 9 Americans moving every year in search of housing, that represents well over ten million potential opportunities for housing professionals annually. The U.S. Census Bureau says that in 2016, there were 324,118,787 Americans. With 2.64 people per household, that yields some 122,772,267. So, when one out …
USA Snapshot, the Need for Affordable Housing, by the Numbers Read More
“Affordable home ownership is Human Capital Investing as opposed to warehousing humans like cattle in a corral,” said Donald Tye, Jr. He made that and other potent comments as part of an in-depth upcoming video interview and related conversations with a man who understands factory-built housing after decades of first …
Meet Donald Tye, The Flashback Fast-Forward Face of Factory-Built Homes?! Read More
It was the early 1970s. Then – as now – affordable housing was an issue. Then as now, quality, affordable homes were needed in urban settings — not just in land-lease communities. Nor limited to scattered, rural homesites. The home in the featured photo above was reportedly produced in Elkhart, …
Flashback Report – Urban Factory-Home Building Project, What It Could Mean Today Read More
The evolving Daily Business News market report sets the industry’s stocks in the broader context of the overall market stocks. By spotlighting the headlines – from both sides of the left-right media divide – this report also helps readers see what are the trends and topics that may be moving …
Insider Trades at Tricon, Spotlight – Check Moves at Cavco, Skyline, More Read More
“From the moment Governor John Kasich‘s Administration first proposed to eliminate the Ohio Manufactured Homes Commission, the air has been full of misleading information and derogatory comments directed at almost one million Ohio residents who live in manufactured homes,” said Tim Williams, Executive Director of the Ohio Manufactured Homes Association …
Governor’s Controversial Manufactured Housing Battle Concludes Read More
In the wake of our focus on Deer Valley yesterday, the stock had yet another bump. See yesterday’s spotlight report on DVLY, linked here, and today’s MH Industry tracked stock results down below. The evolving Daily Business News market report sets the industry’s stocks in the broader context of the …
CG Spotlight – Deer Valley Jumps Again, Carlyle Gains, Most Flat or Drop Read More
That a wide array of private businesses are subject to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is not a surprise to thousands of manufactured housing industry professionals from coast to coast. As recently as this month, Fair Housing attorney – Nadeen Green, JD – has published on the subject of …
Are the Blind, Leading Legally? Ruling on Websites, ADA Puts MH Businesses on Notice Read More
Gallions Reach in East London, UK, is home to an unused gas plant, a deteriorating shopping center and a floodplain that reaches out to the Thames River as it leaves London, an open area that gives one a slight sense of desolation, according to Inside Housing. In the middle of …
The Affordable Housing Crisis and the State of Off-Site Housing, Expert’s Commentary Read More
The evolving Daily Business News market report sets the industry’s stocks in the broader context of the overall market stocks. By spotlighting the headlines – from both sides of the left-right media divide – this report also helps readers see what are the trends and topics that may be moving …
Deer Valley Soars, Spotlighted, Most Tracked Stocks Rise Read More
Residents of a manufactured home community in Santa Clarita, California are upset about the new view of a hillside in their backyards that was once covered with wildlife, and more upset realizing there may be little they can do about it. The owner of Canyon View Estates, Kerry Seidenglanz, said …
View of Wildlife Changing for Residents of Manufactured Home Community Read More
“You are entitled to your own opinions. But you are not entitled to your own facts.” So said Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who was paraphrased recently by Tim Williams of the Ohio Manufactured Housing Association, in that association’s efforts to battle the Kasich Administration’s ongoing plan to over-regulate manufactured housing in …
Regulation Nation – Manufactured Housing Associations, Companies, and Professionals Read More
Where is the lack of affordable housing not an issue? It is particularly severe in urban areas of California. People are renting garages to live in in some neighborhoods around Los Angeles. The Mercury News reported in April, 2017 the median price for a single-family home in the nine-county Bay …
