It is impossible to deny that America and the rest of the world are more economically unequal than ever before. The three wealthiest Americans possess a higher net worth than the entire bottom half of U.S. society. In cities like New York, poverty is soaring.

In theory, Democrats in blue states are supposed to represent the poor and the working class, but the record shows a different reality. During the Obama administration, 95% of income gains went to the top one percent. Bill Clinton abolished welfare as we knew it and brought us the North American Free Trade Agreement, which eliminated countless good-paying factory jobs. Today’s California – led by Gavin Newsom – is now the most glaring example of income inequality. Despite spectacular wealth, the Golden State is the nation’s poorest based on the sky-high cost of living.

In each instance, Democrats relied on an unfettered market to address society’s ills. Barack Obama believed that the market could make healthcare more affordable. Clinton believed that mass incarceration and a smaller safety net would create incentives, solving poor people’s problems. And Newsom now believes that the free market can solve California’s affordable housing crisis.

Democrats once mocked Ronald Reagan’s trickle-down theory – that if you showered privileges on the super-rich, it would trickle down to the underprivileged. But what did they actually learn from the Reagan era?

While trickle-down Democrats sound different than Reagan, they have a whole lot in common. The belief in the supernatural power of the marketplace to solve all problems is based on a false premise that unregulated capitalism meets human needs rather than extracting profit for privileged elites.

There is no doubt that capitalism can advance innovation and economic vitality. But gorging on too much of a good thing makes you sick. People should be free to pursue great wealth as long as their urge is necessarily constrained by the resources that are required to feed, house, educate, and treat everyone. That is an investment in the quality of life for society as a whole, but it is not the case today.

The failure to house California’s population is the most glaring example of trickle-down economics gone wrong. Rather than regulating rents that keep increasing, Newsom has fought tooth and nail against rent control. Instead of requiring developers to include truly affordable units in their mega-projects, they have been granted a king’s ransom in government incentives and exemptions. Even this giant wealth transfer wasn’t enough: California taxpayers also have shelled out tens of billions to the affordable housing industrial complex that has been wasted on stopgap band-aids or $1-million-per-apartment boondoggles.

The result? The greatest homeless crisis since the Great Depression. And there is no end in sight. Democrats like Newsom continue to kowtow to Big Real Estate. From Nathan Click to Jim Deboo and Ace Smith, Newsom’s inner circle is all on the take from the California Apartment Association, which vehemently opposes any form of rent control.

Is it so hard to understand why the poor and the working class feel betrayed? They have faithfully given their votes to Democrats for decades, only for their leaders to turn around and pander to billionaire real estate interests. Conditions have become so extreme that tens of millions of people are desperate for answers, but all they get from trickle-down Democrats are the same, warmed-over vulture capitalist non-solutions to their problems.

If change is to come, it will have to come from the bottom up. Corporate Democrats who owe their offices to the super-rich won’t challenge the hegemony of American billionaires. The creative policy fixes to issues like housing, which is a human right, will come from citizen action that demands better from our elected officials. It will come from ballot initiatives like the one that expands rent control, which is up for debate in California this year.

Otherwise, Americans will turn to reactionary policies that only increase suffering. The choice is ours. ##

Part II – Additional Information with More MHProNews Analysis and Commentary

The AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) is a California-based organization that provides medical services to people with HIV/AIDS. The organization has also funded, sponsored, and supported left-wing ballot initiatives on drug prices, housing, and other issues in California and across the country.

The three wealthiest Americans possess a higher net worth than the entire bottom half of U.S. society. In cities like New York, poverty is soaring.

In theory, Democrats in blue states are supposed to represent the poor and the working class, but the record shows a different reality. During the Obama administration, 95% of income gains went to the top one percent. Bill Clinton abolished welfare as we knew it and brought us the North American Free Trade Agreement, which eliminated countless good-paying factory jobs. Today’s California – led by Gavin Newsom – is now the most glaring example of income inequality. Despite spectacular wealth, the Golden State is the nation’s poorest based on the sky-high cost of living.”

Much of that, as his linked information demonstrate, is rooted in factual realities.  More on some of this shortly.

4) Weinstein also said:

Rather than regulating rents that keep increasing, Newsom has fought tooth and nail against rent control. Instead of requiring developers to include truly affordable units in their mega-projects, they have been granted a king’s ransom in government incentives and exemptions. Even this giant wealth transfer wasn’t enough: California taxpayers also have shelled out tens of billions to the affordable housing industrial complex that has been wasted on stopgap band-aids or $1-million-per-apartment boondoggles.

The result? The greatest homeless crisis since the Great Depression. And there is no end in sight. Democrats like Newsom continue to kowtow to Big Real Estate.”

Researchers often point out that rent control is unlikely to be a long-term solution.

5) Paul Bradley, with ROC USA could aptly be described as someone from the political left too. Yet Bradley argued against rent control.

 

 

6) The late resident-leader, a sort of moderate, Robert “Bob” Van Cleef argued for a type of temporary rent control, to be deployed while the free market that has for too long been manipulated by predatory or “vulture” capitalists is allowed to regain its footing.  The “them” in his sentence are the types of predatory community operators that are parallel to what Weinstein is talking about.

 

7) Back to Weinstein’s thoughts, again, now mindful that he is apparently from the political left and is criticizing the outcomes of policies pushed by the political left.

Even this giant wealth transfer wasn’t enough: California taxpayers also have shelled out tens of billions to the affordable housing industrial complex that has been wasted on stopgap band-aids or $1-million-per-apartment boondoggles.

The result? The greatest homeless crisis since the Great Depression. And there is no end in sight. Democrats like Newsom continue to kowtow to Big Real Estate. From Nathan Click to Jim Deboo and Ace Smith, Newsom’s inner circle is all on the take from the California Apartment Association, which vehemently opposes any form of rent control.

Is it so hard to understand why the poor and the working class feel betrayed? They have faithfully given their votes to Democrats for decades, only for their leaders to turn around and pander to billionaire real estate interests. Conditions have become so extreme that tens of millions of people are desperate for answers, but all they get from trickle-down Democrats are the same, warmed-over vulture capitalist non-solutions to their problems.

If change is to come, it will have to come from the bottom up. Corporate Democrats who owe their offices to the super-rich won’t challenge the hegemony of American billionaires. The creative policy fixes to issues like housing, which is a human right, will come from citizen action that demands better from our elected officials. It will come from ballot initiatives like the one that expands rent control, which is up for debate in California this year.

Otherwise, Americans will turn to reactionary policies that only increase suffering. The choice is ours.”

8) Weinstein cited the Jacobin, a publication popular on the far left.

He spoke about housing as a human right, a common socialist theme not unlike that of self-proclaimed socialist law professor Fran Quigley.

Meaning, Weinstein may well be arguing for more socialism to fix the moderate socialism of what he aptly called the Corporate Democrats. While a deeper look is warranted, the initial impressions and known facts suggest that Weinstein and Quigley may share several similar views.

 

9) Weinstein doesn’t mention manufactured housing or manufactured home communities in the article provided in Part I above. By contrast, the socialist attorney Quigley is aware of both. Quigley slammed what might be described as the rapacious Frank Rolfe style business model of he and other investors ‘holding a gun to the heads of manufactured home residents.’

A deep, deep dive into Rolfe’s recent thinking and remarks are linked below.

10) Whatever his motivations and core beliefs may be, while there is an apparent mix of errant and factual, Weinstein has raised several important points that merit harvesting. For example. Regarding his point: “the affordable housing industrial complex that has been wasted on stopgap band-aids or $1-million-per-apartment boondoggles.”

A recent audit in California revealed that their affordable housing programs have been badly mis-managed.

On the U.S. left-coast in Gavin Newsome’s (CA-D) once Golden State, KQED reported:

• “A scathing 2021 audit found California’s management of homelessness was disjointed and lacked a centralized way to track spending or determine where efforts are duplicative.”
• “The report comes as homelessness in the state reached new heights. California now accounts for a third of the country’s unhoused population and half of its unsheltered homeless citizens. Over 181,000 Californians were unhoused in 2023, a nearly 20% uptick since 2019.”
• “Californians continue to name homelessness as one of their top concerns in polls, and officials are increasingly responding to the pressure with calls for greater accountability over spending.”

11) During Democratic rule in CA and in Washington, D.C. record spending on the state and federal levels did not result in less homelessness. Rather, homelessness under Democrats surged. What ‘trickles down’ under socialism is more poverty. What trickles down under what Weinstein aptly called Corporate Democratic policies is more wealth inequality.

Indeed, poverty has surged under Biden and record Democratic social program spending.

12) Democrats are doing an impressive job doing what many Republicans have not yet managed to properly message or do. As former Democrat and former award-winning CNN reporter turned award-winning satirical pundit Chris Plante periodically muses, Republicans are often poor messaging. Democrats may have bad policies, but information dominance gives them among their own base the illusion of caring and the illusion of having solutions.

13) The Democratic base is being shown in often painful ways that Democratic programs do not work as advertised. Weinstein’s criticisms in Part I are often useful in that regard, because he is making the case that “Corporate Democrats” are failing their own base.

Platitudes vs. Proven Solutions

14) Lacking any mention of manufactured housing in the affordable housing crisis picture he painted, Weinstein’s analysis naturally falls short. So, the problem isn’t trickle down socialist policies, it is bad housing policies because the most proven form of affordable homes is demonstrably often not even considered.

15) Yet, when leaders and public officials from both major parties look at the facts, what emerges on manufactured housing is often surprising agreement. Left-leaning Minnesota offers bipartisan evidence. While Bidenomics and Democratic fueled inflation has raised the costs, the percentages below would still broadly apply.

16) When the range of housing options doesn’t include what is inherently affordable, the outcome is sadly predictable.

When manufactured housing is included in the solution, the result is that the entire mix of housing becomes more affordable because manufactured homes are inherently affordable. No subsidies are needed for manufactured homes.

Like California, Minnesota is a left-leaning or Democratic dominated state.  So, it would be no surprise if some or all of those Minneapolis Federal Reserve researchers cited in the report shown below have left-leaning tendencies. Be that as it may, those economists have entirely embraced the need for more manufactured housing. They have decried the subsidies that often benefit big corporate conventional builders, the kind that auditors in California found didn’t work and got wasted. Again, as Weinstein said: “California taxpayers also have shelled out tens of billions to the affordable housing industrial complex that has been wasted on stopgap band-aids or $1-million-per-apartment boondoggles.”

17) The usefulness of separating the wheat from the chaff is illustrated in Weinstein’s interesting, if somewhat mistaken thought-piece. The problems, properly understood, include too much regulation and yet insufficient efforts at stopping artificial market manipulation. Who said? HUD’s own researchers.

Pamela Blumenthal and Regina Gray spilled the beans. Note the scary resemblance of what follows from their thoughts to Economics 101 and rational thought that conservatives and all other thinkers could embrace.

“The United States needs more housing, and more varied types of housing, to meet households’ needs throughout the country.”

“The consequences of inadequate supply are higher housing costs for both renting and buying a home.”

“Without significant new supply, cost burdens are likely to increase as current home prices reach all-time highs…”

“The regulatory environment — federal, state, and local — that contributes to the extensive mismatch between supply and need has worsened over time.”

“Federally sponsored commissions, task forces, and councils under both Democratic and Republican administrations have examined the effects of land use regulations on affordable housing for more than 50 years.”

18) See more of Blumenthal and Gray’s insights in the reports linked below. Gray very specifically pointed to the need for more HUD Code manufactured housing, which she said was perhaps the most important thing to emerge from Operation Breakthrough.  Note that odds are good that Blumenthal and Gray are from the left too.

19) A few more thoughts are warranted. Taking the surface evidence from Weinstein’s writing and insights shown above, it seems he has realized that Democrats have largely been coopted by the ruling or big donor class.  MHProNews has shed light on that from sources spanning the left-center-right divide for years, but increasingly so in our 2024 reports and analysis. Weinstein is wrong to leave manufactured housing out of his discussion. It is obvious to anyone who grasps all of the facts involved that there is only one proven way to solve the affordable housing crisis and that is with more affordable homes.

20) Weinstein is correct in observing that Democrats are witnessing an apparent erosion in key elements of their governing coalition, per several surveys.

21) California is perhaps near the top in left-leaning states. While so-called illegal immigrants may still be coming in sizable numbers, U.S. citizens have been leaving California for years. The wealthy are leaving California too. Left-leaning tax and spend policies are driving out numbers from the higher tax and middle-income population base. The result is that the remaining Californians are increasingly upset, as the quotes on the homelessness spending frustration reflects. Will sufficient numbers of Californians realize that going further left is not the answer? Time will tell.

MHLivingNews has previously spotlighted former Washington Post and longtime Democrat Joel Kotkin’s research and thoughts.

22) Democrats have been coopted by the billionaires, big corporate interests, big corporate media and tech, and their nonprofits and educational organizations. The truth has been hiding in plain sight for decades. The sources of that truth naturally include Democrats and Democratic supporters.

23) To the stark point that socialists, communists, and big-time capitalists can gleefully work hand in arm, one need not look beyond the many photos of billionaires with Communist Chinese dictator Xi Jinping, or the article linked below.

24) Summing up. It isn’t mocking trickle-down economics, but the sobering reality of trickle-down socialism and the stunning ties between big corporate interests and socialism that is the problem. Big government has been used to funnel money to causes that often benefit billionaires, their corporate, media, or nonprofit interests.

While several remarks are helpful, Weinstein missed some key marks. It isn’t just the affordable housing complex. Or the military industrial complex. It is the media-industrial complex and the poverty industry complex.  See the linked reports to learn more.

Part III – is our Daily Business News on MHProNews stock market recap which features our business-daily at-a-glance update of over 2 dozen manufactured housing industry stocks.

This segment of the Daily Business News on MHProNews is the recap of yesterday evening’s market report, so that investors can see at glance the type of topics may have influenced other investors. Thus, our format includes our signature left (CNN Business) and right (Newsmax) ‘market moving’ headlines.

The macro market moves graphics below provide context and comparisons for those invested in or tracking manufactured housing connected equities. Meaning, you can see ‘at a glance’ how manufactured housing connected firms do compared to other segments of the broader equities market.

In minutes a day readers can get a good sense of significant or major events while keeping up with the trends that may be impacting manufactured housing connected investing.

Headlines from left-of-center CNN Business – 4.11.2024

• Boeing spent $500,000 more than it previously disclosed on personal private jet trips for top executives
• The Fed might not be done raising interest rates just yet
• In an aerial view, homes sit on lots in a residential neighborhood on March 15, 2024, in Miami, Florida.
• Mortgage rates rise after disappointing March inflation report
• Taylor Swift’s music is back on TikTok ahead of her latest album’s release
• New driver manuals for crowdsourced taxi companies Uber and Lyft, with Uber logo medallion also visible, on seat of a vehicle in San Ramon, California, September 27, 2018. (Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)
• Minneapolis gives Uber and Lyft a reason to stick around — at least until July
• ADL gives Harvard and a dozen other universities failing grades on campus antisemitism
• Economists expected that US wholesale inflation would accelerate in March, rising to 2.3% annually from a 2% yearly gain a month before.
• US wholesale inflation heated up again last month
• An automated screen to select and order your food is shown at a McDonald’s restaurant, as California begins a new wage law that applies to fast-food chains with at least 60 locations nationwide to increase their minimum wage to $20 an hour for fast-food workers, in Del Mar, California, U.S., April 1, 2024.
• California just hiked minimum wage for fast food workers. Some restaurants are replacing them with kiosks
• Vietnam tycoon sentenced to death in $12 billion fraud case
• 99 Cents Only Stores, founded in 1982, announced Thursday that they will close all 371 of its stores. Nearby stores include Visalia (pictured), Tulare, Hanford, and Porterville.
• Dollar stores are shutting down across America. They did this to themselves
• Boeing won’t even consider moving HQ back to Seattle
• Bad news for Biden (and all Americans): Inflation is creeping higher at the worst time
• Wall Street wants answers from big banks about the economy
• NPR faces right-wing revolt and calls for defunding after editor claims left-wing bias
• How Trump’s tariff plans could kill jobs and worsen inflation
• Europe launches subsidies probe into Chinese wind turbine suppliers
• Instagram to crack down on teen sextortion
• Hispanic and Latino professionals feel overlooked and underrepresented in corporate America, new study finds
• Dow closes 422 points lower after a surprisingly bad inflation report
• Stubbornly high US inflation grew stronger than expected in March
• Some Fed officials worry inflation remains stubbornly high, minutes show
• ‘I cannot afford to live’: Gen Z is full of financial angst despite inheriting a golden job market
• Commercial featuring nuns taking potato chips for communion sparks outrage in Italy

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Headlines from right-of-center Newsmax – 4.11.2024

• WH Offers Condolences to Simpson Family, but Fails to Mention Victims
• White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Thursday expressed condolences over the death of former NFL star and polarizing public figure O.J. Simpson. But in doing so, she invited a storm of criticism by making no mention of the two people he was accused, and acquitted, of killing nearly three decades ago, [Full Story]
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• Dershowitz to Newsmax: ‘Deep Racial Divisions’ Legacy in O.J. Case
• Fred Goldman: OJ’s Death ‘No Great Loss to World’
• OJ Simpson Was Battling This Common Men’s Cancer
• Caitlyn Jenner Reacts to OJ Simpson’s Death: ‘Good Riddance’
• OJ Simpson’s Slow-Speed Chase June 17, 1994
• Israel at War
• Iran Aims to Contain Fallout in Israel Response, Won’t Be Hasty: Sources
• Netanyahu Not Consulted on Killing Hamas Leader’s Sons
• Hamas Reasserts Control in Gaza Following IDF Withdrawal
• Biden’s Efforts Have Failed, Iran Close to Nuclear Weapon | video
• Biden: Iran Threatening to Launch ‘Significant Attack’ on Israel
• Top US General Heads to Israel Over Iran Threat
• Bloomberg: US Sees Iranian Missile Strike on Israel Imminent
• Israel Warns of Retaliation If Iran Attacks
• Newsmax TV
• Dershowitz: ‘Deep Racial Divisions’ Legacy in OJ Case
• Brewer, O’Connell: OJ Trial Reflected Race Divide | video
• Comer: Confident We Will Get Biden Audio Tapes | video
• Alford: Biden ‘Tying to Have it Both Ways’ on Israel | video
• Brandon Judd: ‘Deflection’ Biden’s Only Border Response | video
• Tuberville: GOP Will ‘Stand Up for Women’ in Sports | video
• Alan Dershowitz: OJ Trial ‘Important’ in History | video
• Retired Gen. Wesley Clark: ‘Serious Mistakes’ Made in Gaza War | video
• Newsfront
• Ipsos Poll: 42 Percent of Hispanic Americans Want Wall
• The share of Hispanic Americans in favor of building a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border has climbed to 42% amid illegal immigration crisis at the southern border, a new Axios/Ipsos poll found…. [Full Story]
• Trump: RFK Jr. Is ‘Most Radical Left Candidate’
• Former President Donald Trump, the GOP’s presumptive nominee, said in [Full Story]
• Psychedelics Effects on Hamas Terror Attack Victims
• Thousands of Israelis were using mind-altering substances when Hamas [Full Story]
• Retired Gen. Wesley Clark to Newsmax: ‘Serious Mistakes’ Made in Gaza War
• “Serious mistakes” have been made from the beginning of the [Full Story] | video
• OJ Simpson Was Battling This Common Cancer
• J. Simpson, “The “Juice,” the former football star and notorious [Full Story]
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• WH Offers Condolences to Simpson Family, No Mention of Victims
• Fred Goldman: OJ’s Death ‘No Great Loss to World’ |video
• OJ Simpson’s Slow-Speed Chase June 17, 1994
• Dershowitz to Newsmax: ‘Deep Racial Divisions’ Legacy in OJ Case |video
• Caitlyn Jenner Reacts to OJ Simpson’s Death: ‘Good Riddance’ |video
• Jack Brewer, Ford O’Connell to Newsmax: Simpson Trial Reflected Race Divide |video
• Musk-Brazil Battle Seen by Some as Mirror of US Fight
• Besides angering liberals and leftists in the United States by buying [Full Story] | Platinum Article
• S&P, Nasdaq End Sharply Higher on Soft Inflation Data
• U.S. stocks closed higher Thursday, with tech-related momentum stocks [Full Story]
• Some Democrats Reject Calls for Sotomayor to Retire
• Some Democrats are not ready for Supreme Court Justice Sonia [Full Story]
• Harvard to Reinstate Standardized Test Requirements
• Harvard University announced on Thursday that it is reinstating its [Full Story]
• Ukraine’s Conscription Law Bolstering Forces by 500,000
• Ukraine’s parliament passed a law Thursday that will govern how the [Full Story]
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• Baptist Leaders Urge Speaker Johnson to Support Ukraine
• Zelenskyy Calls for More Air Defense After ‘Massive’ Russian Strikes
• 10 Reasons Ukraine Aid Is Good for America
• Trump Not Happy With MTG Effort to Oust Speaker Johnson
• Former President Donald Trump and his team are not happy about [Full Story]
• Biden’s New Student Loan Relief Plan Costs $84B
• President Joe Biden’s new plan to provide relief to student borrowers [Full Story]
• Jordan: FISA Reforms Must Require Warrants
• House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan said Thursday he’ll [Full Story]
• US Airlines, Unions Urge Biden Not to Approve China Flights
• Major U.S. airlines and aviation unions on Thursday urged the Biden [Full Story]
• Soros Expands Radio Empire, Mulls Cumulus Takeover
• A management fund created by billionaire liberal George Soros is set [Full Story]
• Kevin Costner Would ‘Like To’ Return to ‘Yellowstone’
• Kevin Costner has opened up about his future in “Yellowstone,” saying [Full Story]
• US, Japan Signal Support for Texas High-Speed Rail Plan
• The governments of the United States and Japan signaled support for a [Full Story]
• Bankman-Fried Appeals FTX Fraud Conviction
• Sam Bankman-Fried, facing the prospect of spending much of his adult [Full Story]
• Fmr Interpreter Charged With Stealing $16M From Dodgers Star
• The former longtime interpreter for Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei [Full Story]
• Prosecutor to Lead Probe of GOP Lt. Gov. Jones
• A Georgia state prosecutor will lead an investigation of Lt. Gov. [Full Story]
• Flag Shirts Get Dance Team Booted From Competition
• Members of a country line dance team set to perform at the Emerald [Full Story]
• Trump Calls for Debates With Biden Sooner, More Often
• The election campaign for Donald Trump has sent a letter to the [Full Story]
• Menendez, Wife to Have Separate Bribery Trials
• Bob Menendez, D-N.J., and his wife will be tried separately on [Full Story]
• Frank Lucas Running for Financial Services Chair
• Frank Lucas, R-Okla., has entered the race for House Financial [Full Story]
• Quinnipiac Poll: Trump Holds Slim Lead in N.C.
• Former President Donald Trump holds a narrow lead over President Joe [Full Story]
• Stefanik Rips Harvard Over Antisemitic Inaction
• House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., blasted [Full Story]
• Biden Mocked for Looking Confused During WH Ceremony
• President Joe Biden was “in a perpetual state of confusion” during a [Full Story]
• Speaker Johnson Rakes in $20M-Plus in Fundraising
• House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., is set to announce Thursday that [Full Story]
• Emerson Poll: Trump, Sen. Scott Poised for Fla. Wins
• Former President Donald Trump and Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., are poised [Full Story]
• Clintons, De Niro Attend WH State Dinner
• Actor Robert De Niro, former President Bill Clinton and former [Full Story]
• Navalny’s Posthumous Memoir Set for October Release
• A memoir Alexei Navalny began working on in 2020 will be published [Full Story]
• More Newsfront
• Finance
• Paris Olympics on Track to Hit NBC Ad Sales Record
• As the July opening ceremony for the 2024 Paris Olympics draws closer, U.S. broadcaster NBCUniversal is seeing renewed interest from major corporate sponsors in the premier global sporting event as fans are expected to fill Olympic stadiums for the first time since the…… [Full Story]
• Ford Slashes Prices on F-150 Lightning XLT, Flash, Lariat
• Rent the Runway Surges Over 220% on AI Frenzy
• 3 Words You’ll Never Hear Anyone in Washington Say
• Homebuyers’ Quandary: to Wait, or Not, for Lower Rates
• More Finance
• Health
• 8 Proven Ways to Reverse Your Biological Age
• While your chronological age is measured by the years you have lived, your biological age is determined by your DNA and how well you are weathering those years. According to The Washington Post, you may be 50 based on your calendar years, but you could have a biological… [Full Story]
• Consumer Reports: High Lead, Sodium in Lunchables
• Gene Protective Against Alzheimer’s May Aid Treatment
• Gum Disease May Worsen Irregular Heartbeat
• Why the EPA Is Regulating ‘Forever Chemicals’ in Water

 

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Notice: MHProNews invites the firms named in these reports to respond to any concerns about possibly inaccurate information via email that identifies the concern and offers evidence that sheds a different light on the topic discussed. That said, neither MHI nor MHI publicly traded ‘insider brands’ have done so. They’ve been repeatedly invited to do so, including but not limited to an outreach on Dec 7, 2o23 and Feb 25, 2024.

APO = Apolo Global Management – bought Inspire Communities

BAM = Brookfield Asset Management – owns and invests in manufactured home communities (MHCs).

BLK = BlackRock – conglomerate has investments in firms and operations involved in manufactured housing.

BRK-A = Berkshire Hathaway – includes outright ownership of Clayton Homes, 21st Mortgage Corp, Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance, other manufactured home industry linked firms (MHC brokerage, suppliers, etc.).

BX = Blackstone – Blackstone Group LP has made its first big bet on manufactured housing by buying a portfolio of communities sold by Tricon Capital Group Inc.

CDPYF = Canadian Apartment Properties Real Estate Investment Trust – also has manufactured home communities (MHCs).

CIGI = Colliers International Group Inc. – The Manufactured Housing and RV Group “We Assist Owners and Investors with Disposition, Acquisition, and Financing for Manufactured Housing Communities and RV Parks.”

CG = The Carlyle Group – has manufactured home communities investments.

CSGP = CoStar Group – is commercial real estate’s leading provider of information, analytics and online marketplaces. They acquired listing service Homes.com.

CVCO = Cavco Industries – manufactured home and other factory-built housing production, retail, finance, insurance.

ECNCF = ECN Capital Group – includes manufactured home lender Triad Financial Services.

ELS = Equity LifeStyle Properties – includes land lease manufactured home communities (MHCs), but also RV and marine slips holdings. Also has captive manufactured home retail operations, and parent to Datacomp/MHVillage.

FGF = FG Financial Group – FG Communities “Owns and Operates Growing Portfolio of Manufactured Housing Communities.” KEY = KeyCorp – manufactured home community financing and manufactured home single-family mortgage financing.

KMMPF = Killam Apartment REITs- (includes manufactured home communities (MHCs).

LCII = LCI Industries – components for the manufactured home industry and others (RVs, housing, etc.).

LEGH = Legacy Housing – produces manufactured homes, tiny houses, retail, and captive finance operations.

LPX = Louisiana Pacific Corporation – components for the manufactured home industry and others (housing, etc.).

MHC-UN.TO = Flagship Communities Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT).

MHPC = Manufactured Housing Properties – land lease manufactured home communities (MHCs).

MMI = Marcus and Millichap – commercial real estate brokerage services that include land lease manufactured home communities (MHCs).

NOBH = Nobility Homes – produces and offers captive retail, financing, and insurance services for HUD Code manufactured homes and modular homes.

PATK = Patrick Industries – components for the manufactured home industry and others (RVs, housing, etc.).

SKY = Skyline Champion – produces and offers captive retail, financing, and insurance for HUD Code manufactured homes and modular homes.

SUI = Sun Communities – includes land lease manufactured home communities (MHCs), but also RV and marine slips holdings. Also has captive manufactured home retail operations.

UMH = UMH Properties – includes land lease manufactured home communities and captive manufactured home retail, leasing, and financing operations.

UFPI = UFP Industries – components for the manufactured home industry and others (housing, etc.).

• • • NOTE 1: Chart above of manufactured housing connected equities includes the Canadian stock, ECN, which purchased Triad Financial Services, a manufactured home industry finance lender.
    • NOTE 2: Drew changed its name and trading symbol at the end of 2016 to Lippert (LCII).
    • NOTE 3: Deer Valley was largely taken private, say company insiders in a message to MHProNews on 12.15.2020, but there are still some outstanding shares of the stock from the days when it was a publicly traded firm.  Thus, there is still periodic activity on DVLY.
    • Note 4: some recent or related reports to the REITs, stocks, and other equities named above follow in the reports linked below.
    • Note 5: Gifts of Sight and Insights, What’s in Store for 2024? Including 2023 Year End Reflections, manufactured homes, manufactured housing, mobile homes, MHVille, USA Snapshots, Manufactured housing industry year in review 2023.

 

 

2023 …Berkshire Hathaway is the parent company to Clayton Homes, 21^st Mortgage, Vanderbilt Mortgage and other factory-built housing industry suppliers.
· LCI Industries, Patrick, UFPI, and LP each are suppliers to the manufactured housing industry, among others.
· AMG, CG, and TAVFX have investments in manufactured housing related businesses. For insights from third-parties and clients about our publisher, click here.

 

 

2022 was a tough year for many stocks. Unfortunately, that pattern held true for manufactured home industry (MHVille) connected stocks too. See the facts, linked above.

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• Note 2: Manufactured housing, building, factories, retail, dealers, manufactured home, communities, passive mobile home park investing, suppliers, brokers, finance, financial services, macro-markets, manufactured housing stocks, Manufactured Home Communities Real Estate Investment Trusts, MHC REITs.
• Note 3:
  

  APO, Apollo Global Management, BAM, Brookfield Asset Management, BLK, BlackRock, BRK-A, Berkshire Hathaway, BX, Blackstone, CDPYF, Canadian Apartment Properties Real Estate Investment Trust, CIGI, Colliers International Group Inc, CG, The Carlyle Group, CSGP, CoStar Group, CVCO, Cavco Industries, ECNCF, ECN Capital Group, ELS, Equity LifeStyle Properties, FGF, FG Financial Group, FG Communities,  KEY, KeyCorp, KMMPF, Killam Apartment REITs, LCII, LCI Industries, LEGH, Legacy Housing, LPX, Louisiana Pacific Corporation, MHC-UN.TO, Flagship Communities Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT), MHPC, Manufactured Housing Properties, MMI, Marcus and Millichap, NOBH, Nobility Homes, PATK, Patrick Industries, SKY, Skyline Champion, SUI, Sun Communities, UMH, UMH Properties, UFPI, UFP Industries.

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