Donald Trump’s Election Victory Speech–Full Transcript plus CNN-Kamala Harris and Kevin Roberts-Transition Insights with Vichy USA Commentary and Analysis
Yardi-Linked Multi-Housing News Manufactured Housing Institute CEO Lesli Gooch Interview vs Mark Weiss Interview Responses Compared on Key Manufactured Home Industry Issues with Revelations
HUD Admits Decades of Delay as Election Approach-Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) say HUD Took 10YRs to OK Multi-Family Manufactured Homes After They Raised Issue
Housing Affordability Ranks High Among Voters-‘Forever Renters,’ Rising Homelessness, Out of Reach Housing Costs, and Most Proven Solution to Affordable Housing Crisis; Facts-Analysis
Patrick Waite – Equity LifeStyle Properties EVP COO and Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) Executive Committee Member – Dumps over $1.4 Million in Shares of ELS; William Lutz on Doublespeak
Loper Bright’s Light on FHFA-Fannie Mae-Freddie Mac-Duty to Serve Manufactured Housing and ‘a Pimple on an Elephant’s Ass’ – Eye-Opening Warren Buffett-DTS for Manufactured Homes with Analysis
Rebeka Zeljko – ‘Wall Street Worried Trump Election Victory Will Benefit Citizens by Increasing Earnings for Americans thus Cutting Corporate Profits’ U.S. plus MHVille Facts with Analysis
SECO-Linked Community Operator David Roden Questions Manufactured Housing Institute Leaders ‘Where is National Manufactured Home Marketing Program Like GoRVing or Got Milk?’ Emails-Facts-Analysis
Cat’s Out-Manufactured Housing Institute-Housing Coalition Letter to Congress Fact Check-Analysis Reveals What MHI, NAR, NAHB, MBA, Others Did-Didn’t Request-AI Affordable Housing Surprises Await
‘With NPR’s Left-Wing Bias Again Exposed Its Taxpayer Subsidies Draw Renewed Scrutiny’ – Polemics About NPR CEO Katherine Maher-Uri Berliner – Why it Matters to MHVille – Facts and Analysis
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Chinese MODs to U.S., Europe? Threat or Opportunity for MH Builders?

Once again, we’ve been contacted by a Chinese firm, exploring the U.S. and North American market. Published reports and input from other sources both suggest that China’s industrialized builders ship their idea of modular units to some 80 different nations. Most every continent, save Antarctica, has seen Chinese housing plays; many include ‘industrialized housing,’ as …

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Confronting MH’s Cold, Hard, Brutal Facts

“Facts are always better than dreams. Facts provide accurate perspective of your current reality. A leader absolutely cannot make a series of good decisions without first confronting the brutal facts!” Mark Cundiff – Learning to Lead – provides a synthesis of what Jim Collins and his team of university-level researchers published in the acclaimed business-book, …

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Nettlesome November – Egos, Associations, Media and an Overly Sensitive Industry?

Manufactured housing is awash in documented opportunities. Yet we are advancing at only a snail’s pace. Why? This Nettlesome November 2015, we’ll explore what some people think is part of the problem, while ironically others see the same thing as a key part of the solution. Associations – perhaps most notably MHI – draws considerable …

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Chris Steinbert’s Farewell – Manufactured Home Industry – Then and Now

“Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable… Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.” – Martin Luther King, Jr. One of our thousands of faithful readers sent me the attached scanned copy of prior Manufactured Housing Institute President, Chris Steinbert’s ‘farewell’ …

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Changes of the MH Guard – Nathan Smith to Tim Williams; Dee Pizer to Jeff Fannon

Let’s start in reverse order from our headline.  After well over two decades with Zeman Homes, Dee Pizer is stepping away from the CEO role, which will be assumed by Jeff Fannon. Zeman is one of the industry’s largest MHC operations, and our sources tell us they are now looking to expand beyond their upper …

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Independent Business Survey, MH and the American Political Climate

“Cool Cal Coolidge” once said to a group of journalists that: “After all, the chief business of the American people is business.” This is often misquoted as ‘The business of America is business,’ explains Robert Dies, who brings that topic into focus in an interesting article, linked here.  Dies cites longer excerpts from that president’s talk, …

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Sparks Fly as NY SAA for HUD Code Manufactured Housing meets with Industry Members

Days before the start of the New York Housing Association’s 65th Annual Meeting, word was circulating in manufactured housing industry circles about challenges arising from controversial statements and positions taken by George Moorehouse, a NY Department of State Code Enforcement Official.  To grasp the flavor of the issues that have stirred MH industry members and …

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Making Waves, New Officers, Awards plus Ire and Fire at MHI Annual Meeting

The waves along the Atlantic coast at Boca Raton have been up since the blood moon, said Greg. Greg is one of the beachside resort attendants at the Waldorf Astoria hotel that’s the parent to the Boca Raton Resort and Club where the MHI annual convention was held. A meeting attendee by the shores opined …

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