It’s Advent for Christians, and Hanukkah for Jews. At the “darkest” time of the year, when the days are the shortest, believers in America and around the world are celebrating – light. “Hanukkah is a Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem at the time of the Maccabean Revolt against …
Darkness and Light; Faith, Freedom, and Manufactured Housing Read More »
It was 15 years ago, but back then, MHI was correct to quote Harvard’s Eric Belsky. What happened to Belsky’s prediction, that kept manufactured housing from reaching its promised potential? That’s debatable. We outlined in a cross-referenced, fact-based analysis and commentary part of what allegedly happened to the then-and-now potential for federally regulated, HUD …
That’s Debatable – Affordable Housing, Manufactured Homes, Trillion$ Await Read More »
There is Value to Understanding News from Manufactured Housing Industry Perspectives. There is also value to taking a long-term, principle-based educational perspective. There are Tensions today between the notions of Freedom and Boundaries “None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. We’ll return Goethe’s pithy pensée later. …
Let’s share these cartoons for today. Is it time to wake up, and get real? Ready for a cool change? Is it time to join and lead in YOUR local market, through the Manufactured Housing Revolution?! For the more serious side of recent MH Industry news, you can check out the …
There is so much that tens of millions of Americans, and our industry, have to be grateful for this Thanksgiving. There are also so many threats, scandals, and possible disruptions of our society, industry, and the world, that this Thanksgiving ought to be a time for knee-mail, vs. email. Scandals, lies, deception, threats, murders, smears …
Beyond Thanksgiving, Reflections on Scandals, Fears, Reform, Prayer, Conversion Read More »
First, the readers digest version, then the details. Last week, the WVHI sent out their newsletter with a column apparently written by their co-president, George Gunnell. Gunnell is an RVP for Clayton Homes. That article and others in the same newsletter indicated that MHI wanted Pam Danner ousted from her role at HUD. That’s not …
Andy Gallagher, “Ousting” Pam Danner, MHI, Clayton’s RVP, WVHI – “Transparency” Read More »
Every professional should have a sense of the industry’s history; how manufactured housing evolved from trailer houses, to mobile homes, to modern manufactured homes. It’s proven profitable! You can begin that survey of manufactured home history, linked here. Every manufactured home pro should understand how to explain and defend the truth about the industry. You …
Professionals, politicos, social, organizations, and people all at times try to shape or spin the news. It’s been so for thousands of years. Just as there are knowable truths in all aspects of life, so too there’s truth to be discovered in probing the – Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How – driving events, …
“Wag the Dog,” “Obscene Profits,” Maturing, News & You Read More »
A reader told us recently that when we goof, admit it and move on. There’s no doubt we as a publication, or myself personally, made errors over the years in serving manufactured housing. Some will argue that we’re too tough, too slow, too fast, too…whatever. Right or wrong, we try day by day to get …
It should go without saying that the readers of MHProNews span the political, economic, religious, gender, ethnic, and other spectrums. That means there are some that will love a statement they read on X (fill in the blank on what X is), while others oppose that same statement on X. Still others with a furrowed …
“The X Factor” – Manufactured Housing’s Surprising Solution$ Read More »
