What’s Keeping the Manufactured Housing
Industry from Attaining Is Full Potential?

Years before the Urban Institute asked last January, “Manufactured homes could ease the affordable housing crisis. So why are so few being made?” MHProNews and MHLivingNews explored that very topic, 

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• video by video,
• and column by column. 

This past week isn’t unique isn’t unique in that regard. 

But this past week does have this bonus feature. 

There are arguably more pronounced, ‘high-impact’ stories this week than is typical.

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Let’s dive into the week that was…on the industry’s leading source, the Daily Business News, on MHProNews.

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Saturday 7.28.2018

Race, Equal Opportunities, Affordable Housing, CNN’s Lydia DePillis, and the Dinesh D’Szouza Reality Check

Race, Equal Opportunities, Affordable Housing, CNN’s Lydia DePillis, and the Dinesh D’Szouza Reality Check

 

Friday 7.27.2018

• Blackstone Brilliantly Bets Big On Manufactured Housing, Enters Manufactured Home Communities Contest

Blackstone Brilliantly Bets Big On Manufactured Housing, Enters Manufactured Home Communities Contest

• Giant Blackstone Enters MHVille, President Touts Record Economic Growth, Plus MH Market Updates

 

• Q2 Best Economic Growth in Years, Per Federal Data, MHVille Insights

Q2 Best Economic Growth in Years, Per Federal Data, MHVille Insights

• Focus on More Financing, HUD Program Reforms, Aimed at Increasing Manufactured Homes Sales, Meeting with Assistant Secretary–Federal Housing Commissioner, Brian Montgomery

Focus on More Financing, HUD Program Reforms, Aimed at Increasing Manufactured Homes Sales, Meeting with Assistant Secretary–Federal Housing Commissioner, Brian Montgomery

 

 

Thursday 7.26.2018

 

• Public Radio, State Research Says “Manufactured Homes Could be Opportunity in Affordable Housing Crisis”

Public Radio, State Research Says “Manufactured Homes Could be Opportunity in Affordable Housing Crisis”

• Facebook Faded Fast, Biggest Plunge in History, Plus MH Market Updates

 

• MH Association Spotlighted Candidate in Gubernatorial Race Raises Tax Issue in PAC Campaign Ad

 

• Sam Zell’s Equity Life’s Properties (ELS) Score$ Again, Manufactured Home Communities Industry’s Most Complete Report

Sam Zell’s Equity Life’s Properties (ELS) Score$ Again, Manufactured Home Communities Industry’s Most Complete Report

 

Wednesday 7.25.2018

• Realtor University, Journal for the Center of Real Estate Studies, Makes Corrections– “The Market for Manufactured Homes,” by Scholastica ‘Gay’ Cororaton, CBE

Realtor University, Journal for the Center of Real Estate Studies, Makes Corrections– “The Market for Manufactured Homes,” by Scholastica ‘Gay’ Cororaton, CBE

• Earnings Beats, Trade Deal Announced with EU, Stocks Rise, Plus MH Market Updates

 

• New Home Sales Fall to 8-Month Low in June, Data Signals Trouble – or Opportunity in Disguise for Manufactured Housing?

New Home Sales Fall to 8-Month Low in June, Data Signals Trouble – or Opportunity in Disguise for Manufactured Housing?

• “Even When We Had a Hurricane, It Wasn’t This Bad,” Profitably Decoding Post-Windstorm, Survivor of Possible Tornadoes Statement, Impacting Manufactured Home Community, Manufactured Housing Industry

 

Tuesday 7.24.2018

• Joseph Stronks Joins Manufactured Home Industry Lender as Chief Operating Officer

Joseph Stronks Joins Manufactured Home Industry Lender as Chief Operating Officer

• State of the American Workplace Report, Plus Manufactured Housing Market Updates

 

• “Huge Opportunity for Growth,” Says Tom Hardiman, Executive Director, Modular Building Institute

“Huge Opportunity for Growth,” Says Tom Hardiman, Executive Director, Modular Building Institute

• Freedonia Group’s Comprehensive Incursion into Manufactured Housing

Freedonia Group’s Comprehensive Incursion into Manufactured Housing

 

Monday 7.23.2018

• Howard Walker, Mensch – Equity LifeStyle Properties (ELS), Manufactured Homes Retrospective

Howard Walker, Mensch – Equity LifeStyle Properties (ELS), Manufactured Homes Retrospective

• Dimon Sounds Off, White House Hints GDP in Q2 Could Hit 4 Percent, plus MH Market Updates

 

• Sexual Harassment in Housing – HUD and DOJ Campaign PSA Launched

Sexual Harassment in Housing – HUD and DOJ Campaign PSA Launched

• What Do You Know About HALTS and Good Customer Relations? Monday Morning Manufactured Housing Marketing, Sales Meeting

What Do You Know About HALTS and Good Customer Relations? Monday Morning Manufactured Housing Marketing, Sales Meeting

 

Sunday 7.22.2018

o   Disruptive Intelligence – Sunday Morning Manufactured Home Industry Reports, Headline News Recap 7.15.2018 to 7.22.2018

Disruptive Intelligence – Sunday Morning Manufactured Home Industry Reports, Headline News Recap 7.15.2018 to 7.22.2018

 

And that’s all she wrote – with a little hand from that other guy in the office down the hall – during the week that was.

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