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Helium isn’t just for balloons or used to make young teen voices sound funny. Helium is used in welding and in an array of other uses, a partial list of which will be provided below. Welding occurs in every manufactured housing industry frame shop. So, it is one of several …
“Get ready.” “Pucker up buttercup” is a phrase that can have different meanings depending on the context. According to one source, it means “get ready” and is used sarcastically to show something negative is going to happen1…” So said Bing in the top response to the inquiry, “What does pucker …
Before diving into this review of Flagship Communities REIT Investor Relations (IR) pitch on the dates 2.12.2024 and 2.13.2024, the following explanations are warranted. As a periodic disclosure of a standard practice, when MHProNews publishes a report on a firm, or quotes an individual or organization, that should not be …
“The Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) has published a talking points paper…explaining and highlighting the three main bottlenecks that are suppressing the production, marketing and sales of affordable, mainstream manufactured homes.” That MHARR press release was provided to MHProNews and is shown in Part I below. Part II …
It isn’t found on the front page of the left-leaning New York Times or on the home page of the right-leaning New York Post. Nevertheless, multiple mainstream media outlets as well as advocates for affordable housing, citizen’s rights, and manufactured homes have published briefs, promoted, and/or republished the entire op-ed …
High levels of immigration obviously lead to a need for more housing. According to a 1.10.2024 article on Governing, among the “Biggest Issues to Watch in 2024” was this snapshot. “State lawmakers will be rushing to address crime, AI, housing and a host of other issues – including growing budget …
In the early 1980s when I entered the manufactured housing industry as a salesman there were designs and ideas that many if not most in manufactured housing pros today may have never seen or heard of firsthand. For instance. Some single section manufactured homes ‘back in the day’ featured high …
In an op-ed published 2.25.2024 by the left-leaning Gannett owned Lakeland Ledger, which was amplified by the left-leaning MSN news aggregator service, a call was made for implementation of a “solution to the affordable housing crisis [that] is hiding in plain sight because existing laws aren’t being properly enforced.” Those …
About a week ago, left-leaning Newsweek ran a story on manufactured housing by Omar Mohammed entitled: “Manufactured Homes Give Hope to Homebuyers: ‘Price Was a Big Thing’” It was the standard fare that such mainstream news articles that appear to promote manufactured housing might feature. Lower cost, surprising quality and …
According to a letter on Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) letterhead, the pending Department of Energy (DOE) energy rule for HUD Code manufactured homes “will be severe” in its impact on manufactured housing. The MHI letter, the complete text of which is provided below, accused the DOE of creating its planned …
Tech-friendly and pro-tech Dr. Joseph Mercola’s article on “The Transformative Potential of ChatGPT in Learning and Efficiency” provides his views, experiences, and cautionary notes on the use of AI or Artificial Intelligence. Mercola said in the report and analysis provided in Part I to MHProNews that he has had significant …
This report with analysis will start with BisNow which published a report on 2.12.2024 authored by Olivia Lueckemeyer under the headline “Investors See ‘Huge Opportunity’ To Cash In On Stigma-Prone Manufactured Housing Sector.” Lueckemeyer’s article for BisNow said the following. “Some of the most profitable investments are in industries where …
The Manufactured Housing Consensus Committee (MHCC) has voted to reject the “destructive” proposed Department of Energy (DOE) manufactured housing energy enforcement rule. So says the news release issued by the Washington, D.C. based Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR). Manufactured housing has just finished its worst year as measured …
“People do not decide their futures, they decide their habits and their habits decide their futures.” – F. Matthias Alexander. To set the context for the exploratory expert analysis on the facts regarding manufactured homme production and shipments in all 50 United States, and Laurie Goodman with the Urban’s Institute …
“I will now add what I do not like. First, the omission of a bill of rights providing clearly and without the aid of sophisms for freedom of religion, freedom of the press, protection against standing armies, restriction against monopolies, the eternal and unremitting force of the habeas corpus laws, and …
Before diving into the JCNF’s survey featured below, a brief preface is useful. Big businesses routinely have an array of sources for information useful to their specific operation. Small businesses? Perhaps not so much. Similarly, employees of larger firms in manufactured housing – or other industries – routinely get fed …
American and international history are routinely misunderstood and at times have been misrepresented in ways that impact personal and national interests to this day. For example, consider this partial list of well documented interference in the elections and/or internal government affairs by the U.S. in Chile, China before Communism, Guyana, …
The Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) sent an email to industry members on 2.14.2024 under the headline: “Rep. Norman and 23 Additional House Members Urge the Appropriations Committee to Stop the DOE’s MH Standards in Final Spending Package.” That MHI email linked to a ‘news’ post on the MHI website which …
“MHI Congratulates the 2024 Inductees to RV/MH Hall of Fame,” says a headline from an MHI ‘news’ email update on 2.14.2024. It appears that all of the manufactured housing inductees for the RV MH Hall of Fame have clear ties to the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI). The balance of that …
“Total housing starts [i.e.: both single family and multi-family housing] for 2023 were 1.41 million, a 9% decline from the 1.55 million total from 2022. Single-family starts in 2023 totaled 945,000, down 6% from the previous year. Multifamily starts in 2023 totaled 469,000, down 14.4% compared to the previous year.” …
