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On April 7, 2019 MHProNews featured a report on the then viral “Seattle is Dying” news video. That was followed by this linked report on MHLivingNews examining the role that the lack of affordable manufactured homes played in the growing homeless crisis in Seattle and other U.S. cities. There are …
As years of reports on this platform has systematically documented, there are several major companies, conglomerates, and so called ‘nonprofit organizations’ that have significant influence over the everyday and political choices that you and your neighbors are making. Among them in a larger than normal degree is Google, which Harvard …
“Correction: George McCarthy, president and CEO of the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, said parks containing about a fifth of mobile home lots nationwide have been purchased by institutional investors over the past eight years. That statistic was incorrect in an earlier version of this Associated Press article.” So said …
Equity Lifestyle Properties (ELS), Sun Communities (SUI), The Carlyle Group (CG), Brookfield (BAM), Blackstone (BX), Apollo (APO), Dave Reynolds and Frank Rolfe, Clayton Homes, 21st Mortgage Corporation, Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance (BRK brands), and Legacy Housing (LEGH) were all mentioned in a raw dollars and cents style evaluation of manufactured …
M.D. and J.D. (doctor and attorney) Marilyn M. Singleton sounded off recently on the “statist-corporate complex.” That has echoes from the late President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s warning against the “military [spy-intelligence agencies] industrial complex.” While Singleton frames this through the lens of medicine and the impact of monopolization – which …
On background, as in ‘off the record’, the following information was obtained by MHProNews with a source familiar with the generation of these monthly reports from the Texas Real Estate Research Center (TRERC) in conjunction with the Texas Manufactured Housing Association (TMHA) and TMHA members. Per that source’s email to …
During an affordable housing crisis, perhaps it is no surprise that HUD Code manufactured homes are continuing to buck the national trends that are causing conventional housing to slide as interest rates and other costs rise. The manufactured home industry’s latest national statistics on production and the top states for …
Stating the obvious can bring clarity to topics. While fuel costs impact every industry, in some ways, they may impact manufactured housing even more given the fact that not only production costs have fuel as a cost-driver, but so too does the delivery-transportation-installation costs for HUD Code manufactured homes. Furthermore, …
On 9.2.2022 an Investor’s Business Daily (IBD) report by Michael Molinski also picked up by Yahoo Finance provided a mixed assessment of the manufactured housing industry based in part on data about publicly traded firm that are members of the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI). Some of the statements by IBD …
Connor Echols in Responsible Statecraft recently highlighted an article by Foreign Affairs that made the point that Russia and Ukraine had reached a tentative peace deal to end their war in April of 2022. Why was the deal scuttled? Or as their headline framed it “Diplomacy Watch: Why did the …
Historically, much of the manufactured housing industry has been made up of smaller businesses, often so called ‘mom and pop’ style firms. With that in mind, from time to time, MHProNews peeks in at what the National Federation of Independent Business or the Job Creators Network, both small business focused, have …
A headline from the National Federal of Independent Business (NFIB) to MHProNews on 9.1.2022 said: “Federal Legislation Seeks to Provide Fairness for Small Business Owners using Big Tech Services.” It may not seem to be the hottest issue in the minds of tens of millions of voters who are tired …
What topics are important to manufactured housing industry professionals, advocates, public officials and for those researching the manufactured home industry’s news and views? In August 2022, the answer is found in this computer-generated data found below provided by Webalizer to MHProNews. This occasional and popular feature on this site informs …
“An appearance by Mark Zuckerberg on Joe Rogan’s podcast last week stoked controversy after the Meta CEO admitted that Facebook limited the bombshell Hunter Biden laptop story ahead of the 2020 election because the FBI had warned about “Russian propaganda.” So said Fox Business on 8.29.2022. They added that “After the release of …
As interest rates have risen and conventional housing costs have soared in 2022, sales have slowed to the point that the National Association of Realtors Chief Economist Lawrence Yun said that the U.S. is now in a housing recession. Moody’s Analytics Chief Economist Mark Zandi said that housing is overvalued …
“It’s coming in, setting down the rules, taking pictures, circling everything, and letting us know who’s in charge,” said George Zuccolotto, a resident of Viking Terrace manufactured home community in Northfield, MN to WCCO 4. “It felt very intrusive and scary for people [living in Viking Terrace], because they …
“As a result of western governments’ taking collective action under the auspices of a ‘climate change’ agenda, we are on the cusp of something happening with ramifications that no one has ever seen before,” said Sundance per the popular ZeroHedge news, finance, and investing site. “Western governments’, specifically western Europe, …
Mainstream media sources such as Newsmax have reported that Moody Analytics Chief Economist Mark Zandi told Fortune that home prices in some 183 of the top 413 housing markets are overvalued by more than 25 percent. That could translate into price drops of 5 to 20 percent in the foreseeable …
The Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) provided the following statements addressed to Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Director Sandra Thompson. It will be followed by additional information and our Daily Business News on MHProNews REITs, stocks and equities market recaps. August 15, 2022 VIA ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION Hon. Sandra …
When surveys suggest that some 88 percent of the U.S. citizens say the nation is on the wrong track under Biden-Democratic leadership, million may need little more incentive to head to the polls this November and vote for change that will stop their arguably harmful to Americans agenda. Knowing …
