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You are ringside at what promises to be an epic battle for control over the future of the U.S.A. Millions want to better understand what is ahead in Trump 2.0, and starting with the headline topic, left-leaning Politico and Politico Playbook will be part of a parade of insights, videos, …
Conservatives are jeering and some on the left are cheering as Joe Biden issued a declaration on Friday 1.17.2025 that the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) is ‘ratified.’ Biden’s own Department of Justice, per left-leaning CNN, disagreed with that assessment, but no matter as Biden is said to be attempting to …
“These politicians run on their ‘intentions’ – never their results,” said the column from the WND News Center which provided MHProNews the op-ed that follows in Part I by Laura Hollis. Per her bio in brief from WND: “Laura Hollis is an attorney and educator. She resides in Indiana with …
“The Honorable E. Scott Turner, Nominee to be Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development” (a.k.a.: HUD) specifically mentioned manufactured housing by name in the prepared opening remarks which are provided in Part I of this report with facts, evidence, and analysis (FEA). Turner also notably said during this hearing …
“The Deep State and Swamp had determined Trump was to be destroyed, decimated and defeated. They used everything in their dirty arsenal to kill him off: lawfare with criminal and civil allegations, financial attacks, political attacks and worse. But they failed. They failed because of Trump’s indomitable spirit. They failed because the American people …
The following fact-packed op-ed was adapted from the article linked here and cites a range of sources that are provided below. The article makes a factual, evidence-based statement that without a robust use of new HUD Code manufactured homes the U.S. affordable housing crisis can’t be solved by conventional housing …
MHProNews has been reporting for several years that numbers of Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) linked firms and that segment of the industry have arguably become a target rich opportunity for various types of legal action. Perhaps the latest piece of evidence for that is from multiple press releases from a …
In a Masthead from 2024, it was mathematically demonstrated that the U.S. affordable housing crisis can’t be solved by taxpayer subsidies. Next, it is a matter of record caught on video that former National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) CEO Jerry Howard stated the following. “Right now, in almost no …
Words can be accurate, mistaken, misleading, or even cheap and deceptive. Perhaps no one living on planet Earth today knows that better from first-hand experience than former and future President Donald J. Trump (#45 and the Good Lord willing #47), whose election was certified last Monday, January 6, 2025. In …
From a recent (January 2025) Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) email is this statement. “Political Action: Learn how to get involved with MHI’s Political Action Committee and hear more about the impact MHI is making on Capitol Hill.” More on that later, but an apparent primary purpose of MHI meetings and …
As regular and detail-minded readers of MHProNews should know, we keep one eye on mainstream news to see how events may impact aspects of our affordable manufactured housing profession. For example, on the left coast of California wildfire stories are front page news across the country, as it should be. …
Manufactured housing professionals have likely seen one or more of the headlines (see below) and may have heard the buzz about the latest Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) enforcement action taken on January 6, 2025 against Clayton Homes’s captive lender, Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance (VMF). But what thousands of professionals …
On the date this article about Franklin Homes (a.k.a.: Franklin Structurers) is being drafted that firm has an “A” rating with the Better Business Bureau. Franklin is a member of the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR), and per that MHARR website on this date: “Peter James” is MHARR’s …
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is correct in saying that ‘manufactured homes are vital affordable housing,’ as is shown further below. Per the CFPB pleadings linked further below filed “Case 3:25-cv-00004” in the “United States District Court – Eastern District of Teneessee.” According to National Mortgage Professional’s version of …
‘Sherry Chris Joins National Association of REALTORS® as Independent Consultant and Special Advisor to CEO Nykia Wright.’ In case you missed it (ICYMI), it is now a new year. How will 2025 differ from 2024? Time will tell, but here in MHVille – the diminished version of the once far …
“Since 2010, UMH has tripled the size of the company by acquiring 107 communities containing approximately 18,800 developed homesites. These communities were acquired with a blended occupancy rate of 73% for a total purchase price of $616 million or $33,000 per site.” So states the UMH Properties 55th Anniversary presentation …
“When I was a child, my parents used to listen to Paul Harvey’s “The Rest of the Story.” The premise of the broadcast segments – which proposed to reveal the hidden, or unknown back-story of familiar people, incidents, or phenomena – was alluring even to an 8-year-old. There was more …
Daily, objective, and detail minded thinkers among MHProNews readers will recall that on 1.2.2025 this writer considered as part of a more detailed report a recent item expressed by Frank Rolfe and Dave Reynolds linked “Mobile Home University” or MHU. It was per that Rolfe and Reynolds linked MHU site …
According to the pleadings of court case filed by Wesoloski Carlson, P.A, attorneys for plaintiffs (linked below): “This action arises as a result of the illegal and unconscionable acts to illegally evict the Plaintiff and approximately 5000 other residents of the Li’l Abner Mobile Home Park (“Li’l Abner”).” Li’l Abner …
Left-leaning Google’s Gemini says: “The phrase “news is the first rough draft of history” is attributed to Philip L. Graham, the former publisher of The Washington Post, meaning that news reporting provides an initial, incomplete account of events that can be further refined and expanded upon by historians later on; essentially, journalism …
