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As a recent post on MHProNews reminded readers, housing and healthcare are two giant areas of U.S. financial expenditures. So, if costs in healthcare were reduced for a family, it stands to reason that the money available for housing and other purchases should rise. Additionally, as Part III on this […]
According to KTL Performance Mortgage: “The USDA Guaranteed Home Loan program allows eligible buyers to purchase a home in a rural area with 100% financing (no down payment required). Effective March 4, 2025, the program will now allow financing on existing manufactured homes! This program is not limited to country
Joseph “Joe” Stegmayer is the chairman of the RV MH Hall of Fame. What? Yes, the same Joe Stegmayer who was hit with a legal action by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) along with Cavco’s Industries (CVCO) and others that cost millions in fines, legal expenses, and settlement costs
Federal preemption is a key issue for unlocking more HUD Code manufactured home production. “Look, the biggest headwind of this – in this entire industry is where to put these [HUD Code manufactured] homes.” So said Duncan Bates, President and CEO Legacy Housing (LEGH). Thus, the relevance and importance of
According to Visual Capitalist on 4.16.2025, which cited the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) as its source: “To no one’s surprise, the world’s largest economy is also the world’s largest consumer economy.” Google‘s Gemini provided the following in response to an MHProNews request to fact check that data. How this
Candidly, “F Troop” isn’t editorially viewed by MHProNews as an ideal analogy or metaphor for Equity LifeStyle Properties (ELS) owned MHInsider. Per left-leaning Wikipedia: “F Troop is a satirical American television Western sitcom about U.S. soldiers and American Indians in the Wild West during the 1860s. The series originally aired for two seasons
MHARR (Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform) is a national HUD Code manufactured home producer’s trade group. The Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) says they are an umbrella style trade group that represents “all segments” of the manufactured and factory-built housing industry. HUD (the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development)
There is an axiom on how a seemingly big task should be approached or ‘tackled.’ It’s this. ‘How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.’ There is another axiom from the brilliant British thinker, popular author and speaker, the late Gilbert Keith (G.K.) Chesterton. Chesterton said: “If
It is almost axiomatic that no two people see eye-to-eye on everything. Imagine, for a few moments, identical twins that you may have met. Or a happily married couple that have been together for years and years. Or partners in a successful business enterprise. No one you have ever met,
“I’d urge MHI, the manufactured housing industry’s self-proclaimed post-production sector’s national rep, to recognize the window of opportunity that Trump 2.0 and Secretary Turner could mean for consumers. Logically, if something benefits millions of potential affordable housing/manufactured home consumers, that can obviously benefit producers, retailers, investors and others.” So said
It has been said that the political left never sleeps. It has also been said that money never sleeps. Be that as it may, hold those notions and their relationships in mind as MHProNews dives into the latest from attorney, professor, and self-proclaimed socialist Fran Quigley’s latest emailed missive that
“The Q1 GDP report suggests that the U.S. economy is slowing, not that it is contracting,” said American Institute for Economic Research (AIER) Senior Research Fellow Paul Mueller in the report shown in Part I below. “There was reasonable growth in consumption and investment,” Mueller said, based on the data.
“Evidence-Based Argument on Industry and Analyst Failures” is a quote from the source as cited in Part III of this report that included this: “…certain manufactured housing firms and analysts may be failing in their duties is supported by evidence of systemic issues within the industry.” To tee up this
Fred Lucas is the author of the report provided in Part I and is the chief news correspondent and manager of the Investigative Reporting Project for The Daily Signal. Part II of this report is the text of the letter from Consumers’ Research to the Fortune 500. The topic? As
The National Association of Realtors (NAR) press release in Part I reveals that existing conventional housing sales took a dip in March by 5.9 percent. Other conventional housing market insights from the NAR are included. Part II is the state-by-state data from the Institute for Building Technology & Safety (IBTS),
The article from the Daily Signal (which in turn cited the L. A. Daily News) on “California’s Homeless Crisis Shows the Need for Government Accountability” to MHProNews is Part I of this MHVille Facts-Evidence-Analysis report. More insights on roadblocks to reducing homelessness and MHProNews more facts, evidence, and analysis to increasing the
Let’s be clear. Problems impacting manufactured housing (MH) are broadly from two sources: various pressures from outside of the industry and inside the arguably artificially diminished manufactured home profession (a.k.a. MHVille). The Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) can’t be blamed for everything. That said, it is MHI’s stated mission for them
Words have meaning. The definition of words matters. When it comes to matters of law, words may take on a special meaning. For the better part of a decade, MHProNews has reported on issues that may arguably relate to financial and white collar crimes that can involve the abridgment of
Some years ago, this Manufactured Home Pro News (MHProNews) website was ‘rebuilt’ and as a result some of the URLs (web addresses) to original content have changed. But that content is still online. That helps set the stage for two of the three headline topics today. First, see what was
Several seemingly different topics will be woven into a single article, as the headline for today clearly reflects. The remarks about monopolists in Part I will be from author and anti-trust thinker Matt Stoller. The Golden Age vs. Stone Age is inspired by but not a quote based on a
