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“I’m hard-pressed to think of a time in my 40 years of life where it’s been so hard for normal American citizens to afford a home. Even renting a home has become a challenge, or worse yet, fallen completely out of reach for so many of our families. I was […]
Grok said “You’re absolutely right—accuracy is our jam, and I’m all in for getting this as precise as possible.” Grok also stated: “we’re refining the numbers to nail this down—rockin’ it with rigor!” The xAI (artificial intelligence) tool called GROK elaborated by saying that MHProNews has about 6.4 times the
There are several types of atheists and agnostics. Some are sincerely ignorant about the difficult-to-refute volumes of evidence that God exists. Then, there are people like self-described atheist Warren Buffett who is clearly intelligent and thus is perhaps willfully ignorant, or he may arguably be engaged in paltering, contradictory-hypocritical claims that
When the public has been blistered with a seemingly nonstop array of half-truths, misinformation, paltering, spin, or deception and misdirection on almost any topic there should be an obvious need to routinely respond with accurate information by those who care about “reality” and the truth. That applies to manufactured homes
“I ordered a vast increase in work enforcement … We’ve got a plan right now [of] 200 worksites a week,” said President Donald J. Trump’s “border czar” Tom Homan. For those who may have been working in the manufactured housing industry, or otherwise do not know or recall, during the
As the recent report linked here reminds MHProNews readers, there are state level efforts from both coasts, states in between, plus efforts at the national level to enact what is often dubbed by lawmakers as ‘tenant protections’ for manufactured home communities, that some media and other sources may refer
According to a press release provided further below by the National Association of Home Builders: “NAHB Commends Trump Administration’s Six-Month Delay of Costly Energy Code Rule.” As regular readers of MHProNews may recall or know, the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) has been openly and publicly calling for
According to Forbes “Housing Market Forecast 2025-26: Interest Rates Keep Construction Flat.” That right-leaning Forbes report via left-leaning MSN’s news crawler said: “Little change in interest rates mean that construction will be generally level…” From the news-financial news site, ZeroHedge, is the headline item which said: “Goldman’s Housing Heat Map
“Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey wrote a letter to Michael E. Horowitz, the inspector general for the Justice Department, requesting him to “conduct a full investigation into President Biden’s mental capacity in his final days in office,” says a post by RWTNews on X. “I am demanding the DOJ investigate
According to a post by Frank Rolfe on the Mobile Home University (MHU) website that he and Dave Reynolds have been involved in for several years: “If you are in an investment that has no “moat” right now you’re in real trouble.” Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) member Rolfe also has
If someone you know thinks that it is business as usual in Washington, D.C. in the first five weeks of “T2” then they are not paying close enough attention. For example: a MoneyWise headline from left-leaning MSN this morning proclaimed that the self-described ‘barely a Democrat’ billionaire banker “Jamie Dimon
MHProNews provided the year end 2024 national data plus the 50-state production-shipment report stats in a recent report linked here. That sets the backdrop for the trend lines which have overall been rising since the slump that occurred in 2023, which is also part of the information found at this
Per left-leaning Google’s Gemini on 3.3.2025 to MHProNews: “You’re absolutely correct, and I appreciate you pointing out those details.” The full Q&A thread and related documentation of that discussion thread with Gemini will be provided further below, but let’s note that it also said this. You’ve presented a detailed and
“HUD Terminates Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Rule,” stated a headline from the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB). A series of recent mainstream news headlines include those that appear to take aim at HUD Secretary E. Scott Turner and the Trump Administration 2.0’s pledge to make housing more affordable. For
“We will stay focused on the mission.” “Revitalize means to bring new life.” ‘We have a housing crisis – an affordability crisis – and a homeless issue.’ ‘We will not just think of these things as a crisis but as opportunities – opportunities to make a difference in the lives
All of the headline items will be examined in Part I following this preface. Approaching 3 years ago, this writer, my wife and our teenage son were at dinner in well rated, popular Italian restaurant in Kissimmee, FL with two Nigerian priests. One of those priests is working for the
Like it or not, the Institute for Building Technology and Safety (IBTS) is the contractor used by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to collect the data for the production and shipments of new HUD Code manufactured homes. That data is thus “official” federal facts on manufactured
“For these reasons, the Parties respectfully request that this Court stay litigation for 60 days, until April 22, 2025, and grant the requested extension of time for the remaining briefing schedule for cross-motions for summary judgment.” So states the joint motion of attorneys for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
The report that follows in Part I is from The Center Square to MHProNews and is focused on the east coast Commonwealth (state) of Pennsylvania. But there are similar pressures in the left or west coast states of Oregon, Washington and other states too as will be considered in Part II
“Compared with the unregulated mobile/trailer homes of the past, the manufactured homes built after 1976 have a higher level of safety, durability, and quality, and the small fraction of the homes damaged during hurricanes attests to their safety and durability.” – Scholastica “Gay” Cororaton, CBE, National Association of Realtors (NAR).
