But an advance notice from the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) reveals a problematic issue noted in the headline about the National Association of Home Builders that will be teed up in our featured focus this evening.
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Featured Focus – Where Business, Politics and Investing Meet
As the intro at the top of this article stated, this will tease or tee up information that should be of concern to manufactured housing professionals and investors.
Recall that the co-sponsor for the Innovative Housing Showcase (IHS) in June 2019 was the National Association of Home Builders.
On 2.4.2020, several manufactured housing industry-connected organizations were present for a meeting with Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) leaders. The topic was the Duty to Serve (DTS). Per an advanced report we have, NAHB was dismissive about the quality of HUD Code manufactured homes, and was using that as a reason to oppose DTS.
There will be more on this in a report tomorrow. But for tonight, this is problematic on several levels. MHI just sent out a message to their members that totally failed to mention this issue. They too had a lobbyist present to represent their interests. Why didn’t MHI advise their members about what NAHB did?
This ought to be troubling too because Cavco Industries, quite rightly, stated in their recent quarterly report that access to lending is a vital issue to the industry.
Stay tuned for our more detailed report which is expected before noon tomorrow.
Update:
Related Reports:
Manufactured Housing Industry Investments Connected Closing Equities Tickers
Some of these firms invest in manufactured housing, or are otherwise connected, but may do other forms of investing or business activities too.
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- NOTE: The chart below includes the Canadian stock, ECN, which purchased Triad Financial Services, a manufactured home industry lender
- NOTE: Drew changed its name and trading symbol at the end of 2016 to Lippert (LCII).
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· LCI Industries, Patrick, UFPI, and LP each are suppliers to the manufactured housing industry, among others.
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