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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).
Before diving into what Investopedia and left-leaning NPR said about the “severe housing shortage” that Biden-Harris have handed off it is appropriate to briefly consider the first 30 days of the historic non-consecutive presidential terms of 45th and 47th President of the United States (POTUS) Donald J. Trump are completed.
In about a week’s time, Michael Master’s is the second columnist for WND to announce that proclaimed that they are hanging up their digital hats, setting aside their keyboards, and will retire. Michael Master’s swan song is shared below in Part I of this report. That will be followed by
Natasha Dubash is a writer for the Daily Dot and she authored the report cited below under the headline: ‘I have never heard a positive review of Clayton homes’: Man buys brand-new home. 6 months later, he discovered shocking damage. Per their website: “The internet is the story of the 21st
Part I of this article is the Washington, D.C. report and analysis provided by the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) dated 2.19.2025 and is a deeper dive than is typical from that independent producers of HUD Code manufactured homes focused trade group. Part II will be additional information
According to the transcript with video of Vice President J.D. Vance’s (R) remarks that follow below: “now it’s time for all of our countries, for all of us who have been fortunate enough to be given political power by our respective peoples, to use it wisely to improve their lives.”
Yesterday’s article on this topic began with these words: “Taxpayers. Employees. Affordable housing seekers. Smaller businesses and possible startups. Investors. They are the five (5) groups that are among those apparently harmed by purported evidence of market manipulation and routine misinformation that is commonplace regarding manufactured homes.” FEA is short
Taxpayers. Employees. Affordable housing seekers. Smaller businesses and possible startups. Investors. They are the five (5) groups that are among those apparently harmed by purported evidence of market manipulation and routine misinformation that is commonplace regarding manufactured homes. But there are others that are harmed by market manipulation and misinformation.
“The U.S. has a housing shortage from years of underbuilding, leading to increasingly unaffordable housing costs,” said the Bi-Partisan Policy Center in a report on the need for “Zoning Reforms.” “While overall housing construction has not kept up with demand, entry-level or “starter” homes for first-time homebuyers are in especially
Sometimes topical or news tips come in MHProNews with several paragraphs of thoughts and information from the tipster. But a recent tip from a source known to MHProNews had only two words in addition to a link. Those two words? “Poor fool.” The provided article was from VT Digger and
Kevin Bessler is listed as a “staff reporter” for The Center Square which provided the headline item about top states to leave and move to for 2024 shown in Part I of today’s report with analysis. Part II includes information from U-Haul while Part I includes insights from North American
There is a lot of information that follows that will include an array of evidence that spans what might be thought of as the classic left-right divide on a range of seemingly unrelated topics. ED-the federal Department of Education has been labeled by President Donald J. Trump as a “Big
