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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News Analysis

Voter Fraud?

As a former student of the University of Oklahoma, I can tell you about the year that Arkansas University kicked our cans in football before a national audience. Lou Holtz was their head coach. Holtz had benched two of his starters for rules violations, just before the big game. OU fans were smiling at that, …

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Coming of Age, S&S

There is a synergy that can – and does increasingly – exist between business professionals, associations and your industry's trade media. That was manifest in a very substantive way this week, when Kurt Kelly sent me an article that shared 10 tips for Gulf Coast Manufactured Home businesses to implement in preparation for the landfall …

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Backwards or Forward

We often hear the term 'status quo,' but in fact on almost any topic you can imagine, there is movement either backward or forward. The quality of a school, college, or business, the polling data on a political candidate or the status of a career or industry are typically advancing forward or slipping backwards. The …

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Looking back

The rear view mirror isn't our focus when we drive. But danger may lurk from behind when driving, so we ignore the rear view mirror at our own peril. Or as historian philosopher George Santayana said: Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.  George Santayana A variation on Santayna's gem is this:  Those who …

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Executive Decision

You just have to love movie titles. Most are short, pithy and just hit you with a Sudden Impact Sounds pretty Clint Eastwoodish, doesn't it? Or how about this one: Shoulder to Shoulder Are right, the last was a Brit mini series and not a movie, so enough titles for now. Executive Decisions. Shoulder to …

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Hungry Retailers

Please repeat after me. Boulevard locations, developers and most land lease communities are or ought to be Manufactured Home Retailers. Retailers today come in all shapes and sizes. What was true yesterday is there for us to learn from. But the world we live in today is very different than 5, 10 or 15 years …

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Hungry Communities

There is a hunger for information among many manufactured home community owner/operators (CO/Os). In numerous states, land lease communities make up the majority of their state association's membership. Certainly when you look at MHI, the number of land lease communities members far outnumbers those who are involved in "street retailing." The community owner/operator (CO/O) hunger …

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Rotten Seed

Some eight centuries ago, a keen thinker observed to his associates that hoarded seed rots.  That was a pithy way of saying, get to work, spread your seed, nurture it so it may yield its crop. Is the hoarded seed of our manufactured housing industry rotting?  If so, what are we doing about it? When …

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“What Light…”

William Shakespeare dramatically asked, "What light through yonder window breaks?" Have you been looking for the light at the end of the proverbial tunnel? Or even the light from behind a dark shade covered window? Then take heart. When word came that U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban …

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