The Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) media engagement efforts in 2022 apparently created new wrinkles for the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI), their corporate leaders, and for public officials to consider. How so? Via routine press releases on monthly national manufactured housing production and top ten shipment states data on HUD Code manufactured homes, MHARR increased its visibility by filling a void more normally be served by a post-production trade group. A series of screen captures herein will illustrate the point made by this editorial fact check and analysis.
Before the takeover (acquisition) of Clayton Homes and their affiliated lenders (21st Mortgage Corporation and Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance or VMF) by Warren Buffett led Berkshire Hathaway (BRK), MHI and MHARR would from time to time not only agree but would work together on key issues of importance to manufactured housing. A key example is the Manufactured Housing Improvement Act (MHIA) of 2000, which MHARR sometimes refers to as “the 2000 reform law.” The document below, provided to MHProNews, was once posted publicly on the older MHI website before they did a face lift some 5 or so years ago. That document illustrates the point that MHARR and MHI would at times ‘team up’ to get something done for the entire manufactured housing industry and our industry’s consumers in Washington, D.C.
But as the 21st century advanced MHI pivoted on several issues. MHI stopped issuing to the industry their own production/shipment data reports. They used to look like the one below.
Thus, MHARR’s publication of production and shipment data via news releases to the industry’s trade media and to mainstream media begins to stand out in the media landscape.
By contrast, what can MHI point to that has been accomplished by that trade group with their self-proclaimed ‘housing coalition’ that they periodically tout?
- Where, for example, is that housing coalition on helping MHI get the Department of Energy manufactured housing rule modified or killed? Silence.
- Where is that housing coalition when it comes to helping MHI get the Manufactured Housing Improvement Act (MHIA) so-called “enhanced preemption” provision enforced? Silence.
- Where is that housing coalition that MHI brags about in helping MHI get the Duty to Serve (DTS) Manufactured Housing mandated by the Housing and Economic Recovery Act (HERA) of 2008? Not quite silence, because some nonprofits formed a coalition that pushed the regulators of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the Federal Housing and Finance Agency (FHFA) into at least a superficial pivot on their DTS plan for manufactured housing. Why didn’t MHI join that coalition?
These are the types of questions that MHI strives to duck publicly, and which for the most part, their de facto trade media allies provide cover for them. That noted, while MHI can pretend that MHARR doesn’t exist, periodic press releases by MHARR in 2022 have made that approach arguably look, well, foolish or worse. As a FedExed letter by MHARR to FHFA said, “MHI does not represent the entire manufactured housing “industry.” That post by MHARR on their own website was amplified by a press release on the topic. That press release was picked up by numbers of news outlets and others.
These are examples that beg the question. Given that MHARR does exist, that MHARR is demonstrably pro-manufactured housing, and demonstrably in favor of robust manufactured housing growth, consider this inquiry. What excuses can MHI leaders give for not teaming up with MHARR instead of MHI teaming up with conventional housing providers? MHI is silent on that point, aren’t they?
MHARR’s persistence is a demonstrable plus. Just a small fraction of the size of MHI in staff and budget, MHARR has nevertheless apparently successfully pushed MHI to pivot on several occasions in the past 25 years. How was that accomplished? Simply by publicly putting out the facts and evidence and letting industry professionals and others ponder what MHARR said and does vs. what MHI has said or done.
It remains to be seen if that methodology will work this time, as MHI has stubbornly resisted the MHARR pressed notion that the industry needs to employ savvy litigation to stay the DOE energy rule.
But if MHI keeps up their illusory game of ‘pretending’ that MHARR doesn’t exist (or their similar ploy of pretending that MHProNews/MHLivingNews don’t exist), they will arguably sooner or later develop several problems. For example.
- Republican lawmakers and public officials have increasingly been making the point that publicly traded firms that are going along with the ESG agenda are shortchanging their shareholders and are violating their fiduciary responsibilities. A similar same argument would apply to MHI and publicly traded MHI member brands.
- While Google has been known to arguably quash or limit certain topics that their allies want throttled, the increasing presence of smaller rivals like Freespoke makes that harder. Additionally, with Democrats like Dr. Robert Epstein and Republicans now aware of that issue, it is more likely to be noticed. Comparative search tests like those shown on this page make the search engine algorithm maneuver by Google somewhat trickier. MHProNews has periodically used not only Freespoke, but Duck Duck Go, Bing, or Yahoo searches to compare to Google results. All such efforts document the reality revealed on a given date. The point is that MHARR’s own website supplemented by periodic press releases creates a digital trail.
- There are other methods, including, but not limited to, the point that MHProNews has long carried MHARR and MHI items. In recent years, MHProNews/MHLivingNews has done periodic fact checks comparing and contrasting the messaging and efforts of the two national trade organizations. Put differently, there are years of records on MHProNews that could in time prove embarrassing to MHI, or could make them the target of public probes or plaintiffs’ lawsuits.
Note that on occasion, some pro-MHI trade media pick up and share the MHARR production and top ten shipment states report. ManufacturedHomes has clients that are MHARR members. Nevertheless, ManufacturedHomes arguably tilt toward MHI in a variety of ways. For instance, they fail to hold MHI accountable on their well-documented by third-parties and/or MHProNews/MHLivingNews MHI’s apparent fumbles, favoritism, misses, collusion with consolidators, and malfeasance in ignoring enforcement of their own so-called Code of Ethical Conduct. These are just some of the errors of MHI that are steadily being exposed by MHARR, either solo, apart from, or in conjunction with others.
By sharing information that MHI has failed to do in recent years, MHARR has created a wedge that has the potential to open inquiring minds. In no particular order of importance:
- A) Why does MHI partner with competitors of manufactured housing (multifamily housing, conventional single-family housing, condos, townhouses, etc.) instead of teaming up with MHARR?
- B) Why does MHI fail to use their legal resources (staff and outside attorneys) to get the industry’s rights under federal law fully enforced?
- C) Why does MHI say they want more competitive lending, but then behaves in a way that fits the description by CFED/Prosperity Now’s Doug Ryan?
- D) Why does MHI have an antitrust statement, and then seemingly turns a blind eye to the steady consolidation of the industry by their dominating brands?
- E) Why did MHI’s former president and CEO, Richard “Dick” Jennison, say the industry could achieve 500,000 new HUD Code manufactured home shipments, but then fail to do the various promotional, regulatory, and advocacy steps needed to achieve that level of sales?
- F) Good journalism is routinely about following the evidence and following the money trail which often reflects motivation for behaviors. The opposite of good journalism is to act as a mere press agent for MHI or any other group’s behavior. MHProNews exposed MHI’s apparent deception with respect to their Dodd-Frank ‘reform’ bill they dubbed Preserving Access to Manufactured Housing Act. That occurred while prominent MHI members and MHI itself were sponsors of MHProNews/MHLivingNews. Restated, this publication followed the facts and evidence and did what pro-growth and pro-consumer minded trade publishers should have done, under those circumstances. But all too often, most of the bloggers and publications in MHVille are merely thinly veiled mouthpieces for MHI. That said, when MHARR is mentioned by Kurt Kelley’s MHR, ManufacturedHomes, or on George F. Allen’s blog, it can serve as a reminder – intended or not – of these other listed bullets.
- G) Amazingly, every one of those other publications’ have leaders who have at various times praised this publication and/or MHLivingNews precisely for taking on the tough issues in a fair-minded fashion.
All that and more can come into focus because of MHARR’s consistent and persistent advocacy, information, and messaging campaign. MHARR has not sold out to outside interests. MHARR has stated pro-consumer and pro-growth efforts that could raise “all boats,” independents among production/retail/finance/vendors and their larger corporate rivals alike. Put plainly, MHARR has not sold its soul or shortchanged any legitimate interests. Why is it that MHI can’t say the same thing?
To date, MHI has given no hint that they will pivot on the claims regarding DOE, enhanced preemption, more financing, or producing an authentic vs. faux image/educational campaign. As a result, is it any surprise that the RV industry has soared beyond manufactured housing? In 1998 when the manufactured housing industry hit its last high water mark, RVs trailed MH by a ratio of about 3 MH for every 2 RVs sold. Today, that ratio has completely changed, with RVs often leading manufactured housing by a ratio of 5 to 1. Part of the explanation for that was the relative effectiveness of the RVIA vs. the relatively poor performance by MHI.
If there are talks between MHI and MHARR, they are well hidden. There are no known whispers heard that MHI wants to mend the fences that they have arguably knocked down with MHARR and its members. It is entirely possible that MHI will continue its kabuki theater of posturing efforts that produce the tepid results revealed by the RV vs. MH graphic above.
These are the facts, evidence, and applied common sense of the reality on the ground in MHVille.
MHARR’s information-advocacy efforts may once again result in an MHI pivot, as they have before.
But if MHI fails to act in a commonsense fashion and correct its apparent errors then MHI and their corporate and staff leaders are arguably opening themselves up to an array of civil and/or criminal actions by public officials and/or plaintiffs’ attorneys.
Much of that is made possible by what may seem to be a modest but nevertheless important effort to simply share facts and evidence. Intentional or not, pro-MHI trade mouthpieces that fail to connect such dots only reveal their own weaknesses. Additionally, since MHI plays the immature junior high school act of pretending that MHARR, MHProNews, and MHLivingNews don’t exist, they are walking into the proverbial dead end at some point.
- a) With a new Congress coming,
- b) with state attorneys general and some state treasurers acting against big businesses,
- c) with recent information drops from within Twitter, the FBI, and others exposing collusion between big businesses, their nonprofits, bureaucrats, information sources, “Establishment” candidates and public officials ever more on display, and
- d) with affordable housing in crisis while manufactured housing continues to underperform,
these bullets and others could prove to be too many landmines for MHI and their corporate masters to navigate. 19th century figures such as Republican President Abraham Lincoln and the famous author Samuel Clemens a.k.a. Mark Twain could yet again be proven correct. The Scriptures and moral wisdom from world religions could once again have their wisdom confirmed.
Time will tell. If they fail to pivot, may some face the fate that other corporate misbehavior has merited?
Again, future events will answer those questions.
Programming notice: new evidence and fresh cases of problematic behaviors in MHVille are in reports that are on tap here on MHProNews. Don’t expect to find these reports and related expert analysis anywhere else in MHVille’s trade publications or bloggers, save MHProNews/MHLivingNews. Watch for them.
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Headlines from left-of-center CNN Business – from the evening of 12.8.2022
- Blockbuster deals
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- The pipeline pumping station for the Keystone operations in Steele City, Nebraska, in July 2012. Steele City is a strategic location for the Keystone Pipeline projects.
- Keystone Pipeline shuts down after oil leak, halting flow of 600,000 barrels a day
- The Pentagon is seen from a flight taking off from Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on November 29, 2022 in Arlington, Virginia. The Pentagon is the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Defense and the world’s largest office building.
- Pentagon awards multibillion-dollar cloud contract to Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Oracle
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- Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen, left, and Treasurer of the United States Chief Lynn Malerba show of money they autographed during a tour of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing’s (BEP) Western Currency Facility in Fort Worth, Texas, Thursday, Dec. 8, 2022. Yellen unveiled the first U.S. currency bearing her signature, marking the first time that U.S. bank notes will bear the name of a female treasury secretary.
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- Jeff Van Drew to Newsmax: Biden Let ‘Evil Man Go’
- A Detailed Look at Russia’s Viktor Bout
- Newsmax TV
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- Jeff Van Drew: Biden Let ‘Evil Man Go’ in Griner Exchange | video
- Pete Sessions: House Committee Likely to Subpoena FTX Founder | video
- Rail Workers’ Lawyer: Unions’ Vote ‘Up for Grabs’
- Alan Dershowitz: New Trial May Come for NXIVM Leader | video
- James Lankford: Biden Ups Ante on Prisoner Swaps | video
- Andrew Clyde: Border Crisis ‘Self-Inflicted Wound’ | video
- Ukraine MP Rudik: Putin Sees Himself as Peter the Great | video
- Newsfront
- Leader Kevin McCarthy to Newsmax: House GOP ‘Will Hold People Accountable’
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- Cotton: ‘Democrats Will Agree to Set Your Worst Killers Free’
- Detailed Look at ‘Merchant of Death’ Viktor Bout
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- NOTE 1: The 3rd chart above includes the Canadian stock, ECN, which purchased Triad Financial Services, a manufactured home industry finance lender
- NOTE 2: Drew changed its name and trading symbol at the end of 2016 to Lippert (LCII).
- NOTE 3: Deer Valley was largely taken private, say company insiders in a message to MHProNews on 12.15.2020, but there are still some outstanding shares of the stock from the days when it was a publicly traded firm. Thus, there is still periodic activity on DVLY.
- Note 4: some recent or related reports to the equities named above follow.
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By L.A. “Tony” Kovach – for MHProNews.
Tony earned a journalism scholarship along with numerous awards in history. There have been several awards and honors and also recognition 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. This article reflects the LLC’s and/or the writer’s position and may or may not reflect the views of sponsors or supporters.
