When energy costs less then everything made using energy costs less. When transportation costs less, moving products – including components and HUD Code manufactured homes – as well as going to and from work costs less. When Artificial Intelligence (AI) efforts are boosted with the promise of doubling U.S. energy production that can lower costs for manufactured housing too.
AI data centers, some projected to consume as much electricity as entire cities, are set to significantly increase power demand. Much of this demand will likely be met by natural gas-fired power plants, which remain critical to ensuring grid reliability. pic.twitter.com/0ljwF1DwbH
— Bison Interests (@BisonInterests) January 18, 2025
“We’re going to build electric generating facilities … under emergency declaration,” President Trump says. “We need double the energy we currently have in the US for AI to really be as big as we want to have it. It’ll be very competitive with China and others.” pic.twitter.com/Mn09rwgzYl
— Yahoo Finance (@YahooFinance) January 23, 2025
Obviously, a web of complex steps is underway that can increase some costs like employee labor, but that too could mean more American citizens can buy a new HUD Code manufactured home or other more expensive conventional, prefab, or modular housing.
Trump 2.0, or what MHProNews and this writer for the Patch may call T2 from time to time, is in part about the termination of certain things that have cost America’s economy trillions since the Obama-Biden (D) and Biden-Harris (D) years and which contributed to the financial pressures that resulted in consolidation in the land lease communities sector, retail, lending, transportation, installation, and production of HUD Code manufactured homes plus all other forms of pre-fab, modular, and conventional housing too.
But painful steps like deportations of illegal migrants, as sad as that will be for potential millions living among us, will have the natural economic effect of boosting the income and thus the purchasing power of American Citizens. Deporting illegals is America First in a nutshell. That is Trumponomics, the return of common sense and the rule of law. Or so it appears to be among the evolving steps taken by Trump and MAGA supporters among the GOP.
But Democrats, Socialists, Marxists, Communists, plus RINO and Establishment Republicans are still potential roadblocks. Which for those interested in housing issues can bring us to openly socialist attorney Fran Quigley. This is where this facts, evidence with analysis packed report with commentary will pivot to the portion of the headline which will peer into Quigley’s email on eviction. It will consider the troubling realities of the eviction process but will do so through this lens. What are the contributing factors behind those empirical observations?
Part I –
1) In an email to MHProNews on this date from attorney Fran Quigley was the following.
Article Spotlight: “Who Says Evictions Should be Efficient?”
Prof. Kathryn Sabbeth Shows How Fast-Moving Court Eviction Dockets Reveal a Deep Bias
This newsletter has shared our reviews of books on housing justice, including Gregg Colburn’s Homelessness is a Housing Problem and, very soon, Tracy Rosenthal’s and Leonardo Vilchis’s important new book, Abolish Rent. Since many of the most important writing on housing comes in a shorter form—such as Patrick Fealey’s powerful first-hand account of homelessness— we are going to also regularly spotlight articles that inspire and educate.
Our first “Article Spotlight” is Kathryn Sabbeth’s “Who Says Evictions Should be Efficient?” published in the LPE (Law and Political Economy) Project blog. (LPE describes its work as “rooted in the insight that politics and the economy cannot be separated and that both are constructed in essential respects by law.”) As will be the case with all of our spotlights, we strongly encourage you to read the full, original article.
Prof. Sabbeth is a law professor who teaches and writes on housing justice. She is a member of the faculty of Rutgers Law School, where she co-directs the Housing Justice & Tenant Solidarity Clinic. You can learn more about her work, including several very important articles on the courts and housing and a forthcoming book from Cambridge University Press, at her Rutgers bio page here.
We have described the “fast/cheap/easy” eviction process here before. But Prof. Sabbeth’s LPE blog article drills down deeper on the nature of the hearings where families lose their homes:
The process can include entry of default judgment in seconds, with no evidentiary showing, (and) as few as two days between service of a summons and complaint and trial . . ..Evidence indicates that on average eviction trials last less than two minutes from the time the judge calls the case to the time they enter judgment.
Beyond this remarkable speed, Sabbeth points out the injustice inherent in the scheduling of eviction trials. For evictions, multiple cases are set at the same time, causing tenants to often wait for hours for their cases to be heard, and cases are often bunched together to accommodate the schedules of landlords’ attorneys.
This is “efficient” only from the perspectives of the judges and landlords, Sabbeth writes. “To deem it efficient to keep tenants waiting is to determine that their time has less value than that of the judges, or that it is socially useful to keep down the costs for plaintiffs pursuing evictions.”
Foreshadowing the theme of her forthcoming book, Courts and Capital: How Market Power Shapes Law and Justice in the Civil Legal System, Prof. Sabbeth says it is no accident that this process advantages one side over the other. The so-called efficient eviction system is a powerful example of the state transferring resources from communities of color to largely white-controlled corporations. “In eviction court, efficiency means more profit for those with capital and less justice for those without,” she writes.
If you want to see for yourself, your community likely has an eviction court watching program like the one in my hometown of Indianapolis. Court watching often leads to informed advocacy for change, a necessary step on the path to a far more just system. And please read Prof. Sabbeth’s full article here, and look for her other articles here.
2) For the sake of argument alone, let’s say that everything above is factually accurate. Does that mean that Quigley is not omitting facts that makes at least parts of the above misleading? Could it be that Quigley is ignoring other relevant facts, evidence, or information that in at least one instance Quigley himself raised in a different post? The post below was uploaded on May 7, 2023.
3) Because of the different sources involved, perhaps influenced by their respective agendas, the point has been made that the U.S. needs some 4 to 10 million units of inherently affordable housing. When housing is unaffordable, when people are spending more than 30 percent of their household income for housing, the likelihood of evictions grows.
To illustrate, consider this Q&A (chat) with left-leaning Bing’s AI powered Copilot.
Is it true that: ‘When housing is unaffordable, when people are spending more than 30 percent of their household income for housing, the likelihood of evictions grows.’
Research has shown that high housing cost burdens are associated with increased eviction rates, particularly among low-income renters. The COVID-19 pandemic has further highlighted this issue, as many households faced economic disruptions that made it even harder to keep up with housing costs.
Would you like to know more about the impact of housing affordability on eviction rates or any related topics? …
4) In a matter of hours – not weeks, months or years – following the start of President Trump (R) second term, sizable portions of the southern border have been secured against the entry of still more migrants who don’t want to follow the process of legal immigration. So, the Biden-Harris (D) regime’s role in not only causing that crisis but also failing to stem that tide of perhaps 12 million (+/-) illegal border crossings is exposed for all to see. It is obvious that millions of people entering the U.S. puts a strain on already limited housing resources. These are common sense observations and market realities that contributed to the rise of housing costs. MHProNews made those observations well before the 2024 election campaign was in full swing. We have American citizens, millions of younger adults, who have moved back in with mom and dad because they couldn’t afford housing.
5) Nick Sandman earned a big settlement from CNN for its role in peddling a false narrative against a young student who had done nothing wrong despite claims by left-leaning outlets and pundits who tried to turn Sandman into something he was not.
WATCH: Nick Sandmann’s full remarks at #RepublicanConvention: “Canceled is what’s happening to people around this country who refuse to be silenced by the far left. Many are being fired, humiliated, or even threatened.”
Sandman closes remarks putting on a #MAGA hat. #RNC2020 pic.twitter.com/G2PChAc0t6
— The Hill (@thehill) August 26, 2020
6) The tide may be turning, if the 2024 election result is an indicator. Recent public opinion polls reveal that Trump 2.0 (or T2) is more popular now than ever before.
BREAKING: President-elect Trump’s popularity is the highest it has ever been among Americans, according to a Real Clear Politics poll. pic.twitter.com/tJqSKbk3Nz
— Leading Report (@LeadingReport) December 14, 2024
📈 I expect we’re going to see this trend continue in a big way. Although these numbers are likely somewhat suppressed, my guess is that we’ll see the end of rigged surveys and surging numbers as we move forward….https://t.co/NBiEz3pFdf pic.twitter.com/Uo65FcAp7B
— NewsTreason Channel 17 (@NewsTreason) January 23, 2025
🚨 BREAKING: New poll finds high optimism for America when Donald Trump assumes office in 2025
How likely that the U.S. will head in a better direction in 2025?
🔴 Very/somewhat likely: 58% (+20)
🔵 Not very/not at all likely: 38%The new majority.
Echelon Insights pic.twitter.com/BzYcSWNM1v
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) November 19, 2024
7) What does that have to do with Quigley’s narrative? Let’s look. In no particular order of importance.
- a) For years, there have been half-truths, big lies, and projection techniques deployed on the American people through various personalities that the mainstream media then picks up, amplifies, and makes it appear to be ‘true.’ Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi called it the wrap up smear
Never forget when Nancy Pelosi revealed the Democrat Party’s entire playbook:
‘The Wrap Up Smear’
“You smear somebody with falsehoods and all the rest and then you merchandise it and then you write it and they’ll say, see, it’s reported in the press that this, this, this and… pic.twitter.com/k5Mup1hRzj
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) September 14, 2023
- b) There are scores of what have been dubbed by some on the right as media hoaxes, but whatever someone calls them: half-truths, true lies, paltering, projection, whatever, they are ongoing.
- c) But it must not be thought that these are new features of the media. In very useful research by left-leaning scholars Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky unveiled “Manufactured Consent,” in which the duo documented cases of how mass media was used for essentially propaganda like purposes.
Noam Chomsky’s seminal work ‘Manufacturing Consent’ exposed the mass media industry and how it operated through these five filters: https://t.co/k8xijRtIH2 #MediaTheorised pic.twitter.com/29V0iw9HQV
— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) November 22, 2018
- d) It must not be thought that people from the left, including Quigley, are ‘all wrong.’ They are often partially or sometimes even mostly correct. But it is what they leave out that creates the spin to the story, intentionally or due to habitual thinking that keeps some from seeing reality as it is as opposed to their favored mindset.
- e) Big lies and half-truths have been told for well over a century that have brought us to this point in time.
BREAKING: Former Politico Reporters Expose Media Bias in Biden Coverage! 🚨
Two former Politico journalists, Marc Caputo and Tara Palmeri, have dropped explosive revelations about their former employer’s efforts to bury stories about the Biden family.
Caputo recalls being… pic.twitter.com/1PZl3S4wBm
— Mark Wylie (@JMWylieNI) January 24, 2025
f) What the leftists leave out is the evidence that they are often very much connected to those sources of corporate funding and “oligarch” billionaire-corporate favoritism that has so embedded itself into a corrupted system. Who says? How about some Democrats and ex-Democrats?
In calling out both Establishment hack Dick Cheney (R) and Rahm Emmanuel (D), Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (RFK Jr.) revealed just how corrupt the system has become.
Joe Biden, who just awarded the Medal of Freedom to George Soros and gave his own son a free pass for any and all federal crimes he committed over the course of a decade, now wants you to know that oligarchies are bad
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) January 16, 2025
Joe Biden givens George Soros his top donor the Presidential Medal of Freedom. I don’t want to hear anymore complaints about Elon Musk lol pic.twitter.com/c2rQJaYCl6
— CartierFamily (@cartierfamilyZ) January 4, 2025
- g) Illusions have been created, and then mass media is used to gaslight as much of the population as possible by the use of slogans that may seem fine on the slogan, but when the practical policies that follow those slogans are examined, reveal a system that fails to fix what they claim they want fixed. That’s what is apparently wrong with Fran Quigley and other’s narratives. Their policies don’t work, except they are able to get more funding, a new book deal, another term in office, all while the troubling realities that they claim to be exposing continue unabated or actually get worse.
8) Trump has produced policies that aims to pragmatically get to root issues. If costs come down, then fewer people will lose their housing. If wages go up then more people can afford their housing. Bidenomics demonstrably failed. Trumponomics in term 1 worked, but there are reasons to think that Trump 2.0 or T2 will be even better. If his health holds and he holds his coalition of ex-Democrats, independents, and MAGA/America First Republican together, will he end up on Mount Rushmore at some point in the foreseeable future? Time will tell. But it is absolutely plausible should a Golden Age for the American people arise as opposed to a yet another Gilded Age and Robber Baron era.
9) MHProNews Notice: while there is some overlap between this report and the one below, each has distinctive facts and features. They should be read in conjunction with each other.
Trump: This Is A Revolution Of Common Sense
“Our country will soon be stronger, wealthier and more united than ever before and the entire planet will be more peaceful and prosperous as a result of this incredible momentum.” pic.twitter.com/d7SmtQhQZk
— Mr Producer (@RichSementa) January 23, 2025
10) Little did Trump know when he uttered those words at Mount Rushmore on July 3, 2020 that he would face one of the most blistering barrage of censorship, propaganda and lawfare displayed against a U.S. political candidate in the modern era. But MHProNews thought those words were insightful and about a week after they were spoken we posted this quote-illustration.
11) If Fran Quigley and others like him want to slow or end avoidable evictions then housing must be made more affordable. To make it more affordable, there is a need for millions of more inherently affordable homes. Quigley needs to look at the solutions, not just the superficial, albeit troubling, realities.
New in depth report reveals facts, math, and evidence that make modern manufactured homes an essential part of HUD and local planning https://patch.com/florida/lakeland/can-t-solve-u-s-affordable-housing-crisis-without-factory-built-homes
It is time for a new path ahead that solves problems instead of capitalizes on them. If it occurs, a new golden era for U.S. employees and smaller businesses could indeed be ahead. It will arguably require antitrust, RICO, and other legal action as warranted by the evidence. More on such topics are found via the linked reports.
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By L.A. “Tony” Kovach – for MHProNews.com.
Tony earned a journalism scholarship and earned numerous awards in history and in manufactured housing.
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