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On May 9, 2022, the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) filed an amicus – “friend of the court” – brief with the U.S. Supreme Court. The MHARR brief was filed in support of a coalition of some 10 states that support a petition filed by ten states, which …
In a media release on 5.12.2022 at 4:20 PM ET, Toronto, Canada based ECN Capital Corp – parent company to Florida based Triad Financial Services – provided the following financial performance results. Additional information with MHProNews analysis and commentary in brief follows. ECN Capital Reports US$0.06 in Adjusted Net Income …
Given enough time and attention to details, events that may initially be obscured by claims and counterclaims often are clarified. Such is the case with several of the controversies that have been highlighted by the distinctions between the rival to the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI), namely, the Manufactured Housing Association …
Pew Research says inflation is by far the #1 issue in America at this time. “The public views inflation as the top problem facing the United States – and no other concern comes close,” said Pew in research released on 5.12.2022. Viewed through the lens of those who are Democrats …
Some years ago, Ishbel Dickens was offered an opportunity to publicly debate this writer. She declined, but said that perhaps someday she would be open to a public discussion, if certain things occurred. Well, what she wanted has occurred. Dickens has not yet debated. Dickens’ specifics are shared below noting …
A party with a financial interest in Cavco Industries (CVCO) mentioned to MHProNews on 5.11.2022 that the Phoenix based firm has lost millions of dollars in market cap in the month of May. Cavco’s stock hit $262.31 on 5.4.2022, as the Yahoo graphic below reflects. Their stock closed yesterday …
“The people actually gained power which the king lost. For economic power tends to draw after it political power; and the history of the industrial revolution shows how that power passed from the king and the aristocracy to the bourgeoisie,” per Edward L. Bernays in his classic book “Propaganda,” which …
“Price pressure for raw materials showed signs of easing in April, according to the latest Texas Manufactured Housing Survey (TMHS),” according to a May 10, 2022 media release from the Texas Real Estate Research Center to MHProNews and other media outlets. Texas, as many manufactured home professionals know, has long …
In a news release to MHProNews and others in manufactured housing is the following from the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR). The topic is the ongoing controversies regarding the pending Department of Energy (DOE) standards proposed for HUD Code manufactured homes, which MHARR has characterized as a “bait …
When the manufactured home industry was just marginally up from its 2009-2010 low point, Green Court Partners (GCP) Chairman Randy Rowe issued what was dubbed a five-point plan for manufactured home industry recovery. It is one of a collection of several years of classic interviews with manufactured home industry professionals …
As our manufactured housing connected tracked equites graphic further below reveals, almost all of those stocks took a dive on 5.6.2022. It may be too soon to say that the U.S. economy is moving toward a collapse, as some alarmists are claiming, But the fact that the first quarter of …
Job Creators Network (JCN) President and CEO Alfredo Ortiz recently published an op-ed that first appeared on the Hill and has since been republished on the JCN website. Ortiz cites facts and figures, including research produced for JCN polling small businesses. That JCN survey included small businesses owned by Democrats, …
Affordable manufactured homes were ‘sabotaged’ by builders and HUD per Univ of Minnesota Professor James A. “Jim” Schmitz’s DoJ/FTC Expert Statement – ‘Exploit Members of Own Group’ per MHLivingNews special report. According to Construction News Today and others in media on 5.4.2022 is the following news release hereby picked up …
Manufactured home production continues to grow year over year and month over month in March 2022, per the latest data provided by the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) to MHProNews. By comparison, the long vaunted FAANGs stocks have fallen significantly recently. Subway is another example of a brand …
Columnist Laura Hollis opened one of her op-ed’s on WND with this interesting notion: “Donald Trump’s strength as a president was not that he was better at running the country. It was that he believed in taking a hands-off approach and letting Americans run our own country with far less …
In a roughly 1250-word article, Terry Collins writing for USA Today on 5.2.2022 has arguably done the manufactured housing industry a significant favor. Yet Collin’s report, entitled “For first-time homebuyers, are starter homes becoming extinct?” never used the words, “mobile home,” “manufactured home,” “manufactured housing,” “off-site built homes,” “prefabricated homes,” …
At a pre-COVID19 Louisville Show a senior vice president for a major U.S. furniture supplier was marveling at the quality, eye appeal, and value of modern manufactured homes. Be they the entry level “shade and shelter” models or the more “residential” styles of HUD Code manufactured homes, he was clearly …
“It’s the economy, stupid” was the famous quip from Democratic strategist James Carville who helped secure William “Bill” Clinton (D) the presidency in 1992. Well, markets dropped sharply on Friday amid more troubling economic news. Inflation is soaring. As a report linked below on MHLivingNews reflects, foreclosures are reportedly set …
Despite the Biden Administration’s FHFA initially rejecting the plans submitted by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) said in a 4.28.2022 new release that the two Government Sponsored Enterprises (GSEs or “Enterprises”) submitted plans that provided no or only possible miniscule lending support. …
A text message came into MHProNews that began the following probe into what is occurring on the hot-button topic of manufactured housing backlogs. MHLivingNews hears from consumers who are often upset by long delays in orders, something which wasn’t common just two years ago. MHProNews periodically hears from retail sellers …
