As multi-year readers of MHProNews know, this trade publication has established different kinds of relationships with several mainstream media, nonprofits, and others in order to provide the runaway best research and information available from any single manufactured housing industry source. Even when we provide a report like the one provided from The Center Square (formerly known as Watchdog.org) we provide additional information with analysis that routinely is found only on MHProNews, or at times on our sister site (MHLivingNews) and more recently in our extensive series and wide-ranging topics covered on the Patch. Note that while the Patch headline mentions the Miami metro area, the report is national, that is just one of the markets they opted to mention in their headline. The interactive graphic is national. More on the MHVille implications in our fact- and evidence-supported analysis in Part II.
Part I
(The Center Square) – The Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach metro area has the highest living costs in Florida, according to a new report.
The nonpartisan Tax Foundation analyzed data from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis to try to find the real value of $100 in metropolitan areas
The report found $100 is good for only $89.7 worth of goods and services when compared to the U.S. average in Miami and Fort Lauderdale on Florida’s southeast coast.
That still trails the worst areas in the San Francisco Bay area such as Alameda, San Mateo and Marin, where $100 only buys $84.82. According to the report, that is likely because of differences in housing costs.
The average price of a house in the Miami-Dade metro area is $625,000, which dwarfs the average price of a house statewide at $392,176
Other metro areas in the Sunshine State fare much better, with only a few where $100 has less purchasing power, such as Naples ($97.6), Cape Coral-Fort Myer ($98.3), North Port-Sarasota-Bradenton ($98.6) and Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford ($99.6).
The Tampa Bay area has a lower cost of living, where $100 buys $100.30 worth of goods and services. Jacksonville has a measure of $101.50, while Daytona Beach comes in at $101.20.
Sebring and Avon Park in the central part of the state have the best purchasing power, where $100 will buy $110.90 worth of goods and services, followed by the massive retirement community known as the Villages ($109.40), Ocala ($106.30), state capital Tallahassee ($105.80) and Homosassa Springs on the Gulf Coast ($105.5).
Other notables include the Panhandle's metro areas of Pensacola ($104.70), Fort Walton Beach ($102.10) and Panama City ($102.60).
At the home of the University of Florida, Gainesville, residents received $103.70 with of goods for every $100 spent. Sebastian-Vero Beach on the east coast had a measure of $104.80.
Also on the Atlantic, residents of Palm Bay, Melbourne and Titusville received $100.70 for every $100 spent.
On the Gulf Coast, Punta Gorda residents received $104.20 in goods and services for every $100 spent.
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Part II Additional Information with More MHProNews Analysis and Commentary
1) The Masthead on MHProNews notes that virtually every part of the U.S. could benefit from the presence of some form of HUD Code manufactured housing.
2) For example. With the new multi-unit manufactured housing made possible by the persistent advocacy of MHARR, entirely new markets for HUD Code manufactured homes are available today that were not just a year ago.
3) While sabotage monopoly style tactics are doubtlessly still going to be deployed by those, within and beyond manufactured housing, it may get harder and harder for progress in re-growing manufactured housing production to be thwarted. For example. As reports like the ones linked below will reveal, the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) will increasingly look either incompetent, like a group of cronyism/conflict of interest ridden corporatists, corrupt, or perhaps even potentially criminal in the view of some researchers like Samuel Strommen.
The articles linked above are among the most in depth and wide-ranging reports produced about manufactured housing in some time. Grab your favorite beverage and snack suitable for this time of day and dig in to learn more about why manufactured housing is underperforming during a well-documented affordable housing crisis.
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By L.A. "Tony" Kovach - for MHProNews.com.
Tony earned a journalism scholarship and earned numerous awards in history and in manufactured housing.
For example, he earned the prestigious Lottinville Award in history from the University of Oklahoma, where he studied history and business management. He's a managing member and co-founder of LifeStyle Factory Homes, LLC, the parent company to MHProNews, and MHLivingNews.com.
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