If 2024 seemed to go by all too quickly for you and yours, join the club. A week from now, if all goes well, there will be the first headlines in review for the first Sunday in 2025. It is now less than a month to the inauguration of a new (returning) president. Manufactured housing production recovered modestly in 2024 from its sharp slide in 2023. There are reasons for hope in MHVille, as the problem-plagued Biden-Harris (D) regime hopefully exists quietly and without more undue drama. Housing affordability has demonstrably struggled in the last 4 years as the weekly headlines recap will reflect. Included in this week’s reports are the official data from HUD on homelessness, which they admit is caused in part by a lack of affordable housing in the U.S. With that backdrop, Part I of today’s report provides the December 2024 release of the state-by-state data from the Institute of Building Technology and Safety (IBTS), HUD’s contractor for collecting data on manufactured home production and shipments into the various states, Washington, D.C. and U.S. territories.

Part II will include evidence from the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) on the lack of affordable housing in the U.S. and some related analysis and commentary in brief.

Part III is our weekly headlines in review, including from our new in 2024 ongoing broader series of reports on a range of subjects covered on the Patch.  In today’s Postscript will be a not to be missed look at the headline manufactured home industry consolidation topic. You will also find over 50 Sunday Weekly MHVille Headline Recaps in that Postscript, which will provide a unique look back at the year 2024 through the lens of manufactured housing trade publishing.

 

Part I Official HUD Data as collected by IBTS

Institute for Building Technology & Safety‎
Shipments and Production Summary Report 10/01/2024 – 10/31/2024

Shipments
State	SW	MW	Total	Floors
Dest. Pending	3	4	7	11
Alabama	417	226	643	873
Alaska	0	1	1	2
Arizona	53	161	214	376
Arkansas	84	90	174	264
California	53	213	266	488
Colorado	29	35	64	99
Connecticut	8	5	13	18
Delaware	4	22	26	48
District of Columbia	0	0	0	0
Florida	222	456	678	1,123
Georgia	150	277	427	706
Hawaii	0	0	0	0
Idaho	15	22	37	62
Illinois	65	39	104	143
Indiana	137	62	199	261
Iowa	31	16	47	63
Kansas	37	9	46	55
Kentucky	149	271	420	695
Louisiana	346	192	538	730
Maine	40	58	98	156
Maryland	21	1	22	23
Massachusetts	8	2	10	12
Michigan	175	182	357	539
Minnesota	27	52	79	132
Mississippi	200	205	405	612
Missouri	81	92	173	265
Montana	19	12	31	43
Nebraska	15	7	22	29
Nevada	14	32	46	81
New Hampshire	11	16	27	44
New Jersey	23	11	34	45
New Mexico	53	101	154	254
New York	77	87	164	251
North Carolina	261	364	625	988
North Dakota	18	27	45	72
Ohio	153	60	213	273
Oklahoma	88	122	210	333
Oregon	21	87	108	201
Pennsylvania	114	78	192	270
Rhode Island	0	0	0	0
South Carolina	173	364	537	903
South Dakota	34	16	50	66
Tennessee	125	248	373	621
Texas	751	1,034	1,785	2,823
Utah	10	24	34	58
Vermont	15	8	23	31
Virginia	61	110	171	281
Washington	11	136	147	288
West Virginia	47	65	112	177
Wisconsin	59	38	97	135
Wyoming	13	2	15	17
Canada	0	0	0	0
Puerto Rico	0	0	0	0
Total	4,521	5,742	10,263	16,040
THE ABOVE STATISTICS ARE PROVIDED AS A MONTHLY
SUBSCRIPTION SERVICE. REPRODUCTION IN PART OR
IN TOTAL MUST CARRY AN ATTRIBUTION TO IBTS, INC.

Production
State	SW	MW	Total	Floors
States Shown(*)	185	339	524	863
Alabama	969	875	1,844	2,734
*Alaska	0	0	0	0
Arizona	67	180	247	429
*Arkansas	0	0	0	0
California	41	195	236	439
*Colorado	0	0	0	0
*Connecticut	0	0	0	0
*Delaware	0	0	0	0
*District of Columbia	0	0	0	0
Florida	80	218	298	503
Georgia	163	432	595	1,030
*Hawaii	0	0	0	0
Idaho	32	83	115	207
*Illinois	0	0	0	0
Indiana	629	310	939	1,249
*Iowa	0	0	0	0
*Kansas	0	0	0	0
*Kentucky	0	0	0	0
*Louisiana	0	0	0	0
*Maine	0	0	0	0
*Maryland	0	0	0	0
*Massachusetts	0	0	0	0
*Michigan	0	0	0	0
Minnesota	41	80	121	201
*Mississippi	0	0	0	0
*Missouri	0	0	0	0
*Montana	0	0	0	0
*Nebraska	0	0	0	0
*Nevada	0	0	0	0
*New Hampshire	0	0	0	0
*New Jersey	0	0	0	0
*New Mexico	0	0	0	0
*New York	0	0	0	0
North Carolina	264	377	641	1,016
*North Dakota	0	0	0	0
*Ohio	46	52	98	150
*Oklahoma	0	0	0	0
Oregon	37	206	243	457
Pennsylvania	321	288	609	898
*Rhode Island	0	0	0	0
*South Carolina	0	0	0	0
*South Dakota	0	0	0	0
Tennessee	604	904	1,508	2,415
Texas	1,009	1,159	2,168	3,328
*Utah	0	0	0	0
*Vermont	0	0	0	0
*Virginia	0	0	0	0
*Washington	0	0	0	0
*West Virginia	0	0	0	0
*Wisconsin	33	44	77	121
*Wyoming	0	0	0	0
*Canada	0	0	0	0
*Puerto Rico	0	0	0	0
Total	4,521	5,742	10,263	16,040
(*) THESE STATES HAVE FEWER THAN THREE PLANTS.
FIGURES ARE AGGREGATED ON FIRST LINE ABOVE
TOTALS TO PROTECT PROPRIETARY INFORMATION.

 

Ashok K Goswami, PE, COO, 45207 Research Place, Ashburn, VA

 

Part II – Additional Information with MHProNews Analysis and Commentary in Brief

1) According to a letter from MHI signed by its CEO Lesli Gooch, Ph.D., to the FHFA included the following remarks.

Manufactured:

“…homes are produced by 36 U.S. corporations in 148 homebuilding facilities located across the country. Today, MHI members represent over 90 percent of all manufactured homes constructed and we are pleased to submit the following comments on behalf of this important industry. 

Manufactured housing is the most affordable homeownership option for American families. Last year, the price for an average manufactured home was $124,300, while the average site-built home was around $409,000 (excluding land).  The average income for a manufactured home buyer was about $61,000 while the average income for a site-built home buyer was over $136,000.”  

But in 2021, MHI said that: “The average sales price of a new manufactured home without land is $81,900.” The cost of HUD Code manufactured housing has soared under the Biden-Harris regime. Perhaps millions who could once afford to buy a manufactured home are no longer able to do so. Nevertheless, MHI kept sending such ‘politically correct‘ letters to federal official, spouting nonsense about their demonstrably failed CrossMods  initiative and from time to time praised the Biden-Harris regime for their ‘housing plans’ that undermined all U.S. housing, including manufactured housing (see the Champion Homes article in the headlines recap as an example of problems with CrossMods).

 

 

 

2) MHI has also provided the following data. Note that in 2021, 51 percent of U.S. manufactured housing construction went into land-lease communities, per MHI. Note that manufactured home prices have nearly doubled since 2014 to 2024, per MHI which cited federal sources. And even though new single-family housing “was around $409,000” for new site-built housing without land, manufactured homes still only managed a meager 9 percent of new single family home construction in 2024. For three years under Trump 1.0, manufactured home production was 10 percent instead of 9 percent of new U.S. single-family construction. So, while both data points are less than what manufactured housing achieved in the mid-to-late 1990s, at least the market share of production was greater under Trump than under Democrats for the last decade. Note that an article about Champion Homes in the week in review will provide a graphic that reflects that manufactured home market share has slumped over 50 percent from what it was during the mid-to-late 1990s when it was routinely over 20 percent (one out of five) new homes produced.

Cost & Size Comparisons:

New Manufactured Homes and New Single-Family Site-Built Homes 2014 – 2021

	2021	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016	2015	2014
New Manufactured Homes All1 Avg. Sales Price	$  108,100	$    87,000	$    81,900	$    78,500	$      71,900	$     70,600	$   68,000	$    65,300
Avg. Square Feet	1,497	1,471	1,448	1,438	1,426	1,446	1,430	1,438
Avg. Cost per Sq. Ft.	$      72.21	$      59.14	$      56.56	$      54.59	$        50.42	$       48.82	$     47.55	$      45.41
Single Avg. Sales Price	$    72,600	$    57,300	$    53,200	$    52,400	$      48,300	$     46,700	$   45,600	$    45,000
Avg. Square Feet	1,084	1,085	1,072	1,072	1,087	1,075	1,092	1,115
Avg. Cost per Sq. Ft.	$      66.97	$      52.81	$      49.63	$      48.88	$        44.43	$       43.44	$     41.76	$      40.36
Double Avg. Sales Price	$  132,000	$  108,500	$  104,000	$    99,500	$      92,800	$     89,500	$   86,700	$    82,000
Avg. Square Feet	1,794	1,760	1,747	1,747	1,733	1,746	1,713	1,710
Avg. Cost per Sq. Ft.	$      73.58	$      61.65	$      59.53	$      51.26	$        53.55	$       51.26	$     50.61	$      47.95
Housing Starts vs. MH Shipments (Thousands of Units) New Single Family Housing Starts	1,127	991	888	876	849	782	715	648
Percent of Total	91%	91%	90%	90%	90%	91%	91%	91%
Manufactured Home Shipments Shipped	106	94	95	97	93	81	71	64
Percent of Total	9%	9%	10%	10%	10%	9%	9%	9%
Total	1,233	1,085	983	973	942	863	786	678
New Single-Family Site-Built Homes Sold (Home and Land Sold as Package) Avg. Sales Price	$  464,200	$  391,900	$  383,900	$  385,000	$    384,900	$   360,900	$ 352,700	$  347,700
Derived Average Land Price	$    98,296	$    83,303	$    84,485	$    87,253	$      91,173	$     82,491	$   80,246	$    84,444
Price of Structure Avg. Square Feet	2,544	2,527	2,518	2,602	2,645	2,650	2,724	2,707
Avg. Price per Sq Ft. (excl. land)	$    143.83	$    122.12	$    118.91	$    114.43	$      111.05	$     105.06	$   100.02	$      97.25
Manufactured Home Shipments Total	105,772	94,390	94,615	96,555	92,902	81,136	70,544	64,331
Single-Section	44,755	42,578	42,930	44,979	46,305	38,944	32,210	30,218
Multi-Section	61,017	51,812	51,685	51,576	46,597	42,192	38,334	34,113
New Manufactured Homes Placed (For Residential Use) Located in Communities	51%	27%	31%	37%	32%	34%	34%	33%
Located on Private Property	49%	73%	69%	63%	68%	66%	66%	67%
Titled as Personal Property	77%	78%	76%	77%	76%	77%	80%	80%
Titled as Real Estate	19%	19%	19%	17%	17%	17%	14%	13%

¹ Includes manufactured homes with more than two sections.

Note: The Census Bureau has reviewed this data product for unauthorized disclosure of confidential information and has approved the disclosure avoidance practices applied.  (Approval ID: CBDRB-FY22-278)

Source: U.S. Census Bureau and U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Survey of Construction, https://www.census.gov/construction/chars/;  https://www.census.gov/construction/nrc/xls/starts_cust.xls.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau and U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Manufactured Housing Survey.

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MHI can’t claim ignorance of the kind of woes that MHProNews and MHLivingNews has carefully documented for years, often by using the very words that MHI and key MHI members have uttered or published.  Again, see the headlines for the week in review for examples of how MHI has apparently repeatedly violated its own IRS Form 990.

 

3) According to the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR), manufactured home production rose year-over-year in September 2024. MHARR said the following.

…statistics indicate that HUD Code manufacturers produced 10,263 new homes in October 2024, a 22.2% increase over the 8,393 new HUD Code homes produced in October 2023. Cumulative production for 2024 now totals 87,639 homes, a 16.7% increase over the 75,040 HUD Code homes produced over the same period in 2023.

 

For the sake of the steady stream of newcomers to this site and to remind longer time readers, it is worth noting that MHARR has apparently stayed true to its mandate and mission. See the headlines for the week in review for linked examples that include AI powered Copilot stated that there are no similar known scandals involving MHARR or MHARR members as there are for MHI, its CEO Gooch, and several lawsuit or legal probe struck MHI members. Additionally, Copilot has observed that there appears to be no direct response by MHI to the documented evidence of concerns raised about that organization and its vexing pattern of behavior.

Restated, MHARR seems to do what it can and should, while MHI appears to be a tool for consolidators (see the postscript for more). Thus, the satirical logos for MHI and remarks like that shared by longtime MHI member Marty Lavin, J.D. Note that Lavin is an MHI award winner who has apparently been put on the list of MHI unpersons.

 

 

 

4) While there are vexing data points in the above, what MHI’s statistics often illustrate is just how poorly they have performed during an affordable housing crisis when favorable federal laws are on the books that they have reportedly have yet to litigate in order to get them enforced. Quoting MHI’s letter again purportedly authored by CEO Gooch.

Despite the HERA statute requiring Fannie and Freddie to “consider” personal property manufactured loans as part of its statutory Duty to Serve requirements, neither GSE has made a single personal property loan since HERA was adopted 16 years ago.

In their Duty to Serve Plans, both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are focused on efforts around titling barriers to converting land ownership so there are more real property manufactured home loans – and on efforts to purchase personal property home loans in Resident Owned Communities.

MHI believes this is the wrong focus.  Personal property loans make up around 70% of the manufactured home loan market.  The simple truth is that personal property loans continue to be made safely by portfolio lenders, and MHI has submitted detailed loan performance data to FHFA, Fannie Mae, and Freddie Mac to document the strong loan performance of these loans – even through COVID, a time of mortgage loan stress.

Therefore, as MHI has been calling for years, Fannie and Freddie should develop a flow program for such loans, purchasing all loans that meet underwriting criteria – for securitization into secondary markets. After 16 years of delay we see it a significant shortcoming of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac with respect to their compliance with Duty to Serve requirements.

MHI may well be politely pointing their finger at FHFA, Fannie and Freddie, but that is apparently just for show. MHARR President and CEO Mark Weiss, J.D., has said that Gooch’s pitch is misguided and “a major problem.”

 

 

5) But in fairness to MHI, HUD and the FHFA should not need to be prodded to do their statutory jobs. To restate that more forcefully, MHI and various federal officials both shoulder responsibility for the poor state of manufactured housing today. As the reports for the week in review will reveal in more detail, well documented evidence has been provided that MHI’s leadership appears to desire the status quo, despite what they may on occasion say or write. And federal officials under the Biden-Harris (D) era have also apparently desired the status quo, which MHI openly endorsed, regardless of what MHARR or some consumer groups have argued in favor of doing.

As leftist Michael Weinstein said about Democrats and the U.S. housing crunch, ‘tens of billions of dollars flowing to the affordable housing-industrial complex are wasted.’

 

 

Don’t miss today’s postscript.

MHVille is a moniker for the diminished 21st century manufactured home industry. With no further adieu, here are the MHVille headlines for the week that was from 12.22 to 12.29.2024.

Part III

What’s New on MHLivingNews

 

 

 

 

What’s the Latest and Select from Washington, D.C. from MHARR

 

 

 

What’s New and Recent from the Masthead

 

 

 

 

Select Items from Tim Connors, CSP and his Words of Wisdom

 

 

 

 

What’s New from Contrarian Contributor L. A. “Tony” Kovach on the Eclectic Subject he Covers on the Mainstream Patch News Site

MHProNews  Note-several of these include or link affordable housing and manufactured home related topics.

 

 

 

What’s New on the Daily Business News on MHProNews

Saturday 12.28.2024

 

Friday 12.27.2024

 

Thursday 12.26.2024

 

Wednesday 12.25.2024

 

Tuesday 12.24.2024

 

Monday 12.23.2024

 

Sunday 12.22.2024

 

Postscript

1) Decades ago, this writer worked for some time under the tutelage of a veteran of the insurance profession. He was an ex-minister, married with children. While not wildly wealthy, he was well off. He advised that the period between Christmas and New Years should be used to reflect on the past and plan for the future. He suggested that such reflection should be brutally honest, facts and data driven. Regardless of profession, those are arguably wise and prudent words to remember and seek to live.

This is the time of year that some people ponder their ‘new year’s resolutions.’ Perhaps such resolutions aren’t as much in vogue as they were some years ago when society was more traditionally normative in its beliefs. People that deny that there is a Divine Power that Created the Universe, all that is in it, and set humanity on its course here on Planet Earth with moral standards that should be adhered to as guides for peaceful and successful living may not think there is any need for a resolution to change. But even weight, lifestyle, or health coaches (to name a few) recognize that changes are often required in order to achieve a goal.

2) It is the observation of this writer that manufactured housing has been stuck in a rut for much of the 21st century.  The famous Zig Ziglar, who contributed dozens of articles to this publication while he was still alive, once described a rut as an open-ended grave.

 

3) Every report that is published by MHProNews is on a topic that either provides useful information and/or claims with analysis and insights that are often not found elsewhere.  It has likely been years since we published a press release without commenting on that press release. The job of media is not to be a stenographer for government, corporate, or for some wealthy special interest.  Yes, the views or claims by the government, by big corporate interests, etc. should be shared but then so should contrarian views that test the validity of the claims of a person, organization, group, etc. That viewpoint of what good journalism should be is not so far removed from what the American Press Institute has said on the subject.

 

4) MHI is an apparent tool in the hands of corporate interests. As MHProNews/MHLivingNews have carefully documented over the period of years, there are times that they say something that may sound similar to what MHARR says, but then they behave in ways that mitigate against their stated goals and purpose.  Why is that so? The apparent answer to that is consolidation of the manufactured home industry at the hands of a relatively few firms that routinely happen to be MHI members. But in fairness another answer appears to be that giant conglomerates that manage trillions of dollars in assets have put sizable sums into publicly traded manufactured housing companies.  Those same asset managers also have interests in conventional housing. By controlling their competition, so to speak, they can keep the competition to conventional housing to a minimal level.

 

 

5) MHI and their connected insiders routinely ignore inquiries made by MHProNews while other organizations and individuals are often quite willing to respond to this same publication. Why is that so? Well, it must first be noted that MHI leaders routinely responded years ago as well. Not only did the reply, those leaders routinely praised MHProNews for our fair, accurate, and superior coverage of the manufactured housing landscape. While our understanding of why the industry is underperforming in the 21st century has deepened, our core interests and values at MHProNews/MHLivingNews have not changed. We believe in the industry’s value and potential. The potential is apparently so great that some seem to feel the need to engage in what researchers and critics have at times referred to as sabotage monopoly tactics.

 

 

Among the items that triggered a journalistic curiosity by MHProNews was this remark below from then MHI President and CEO, Richard “Dick” Jennison.  Why would anyone in his role urge the industry to grow slowly? Investigators are supposed to ask and answer the question: cui bono? Who benefits from a certain behavior or fact?

 

 

6) So, it wasn’t just regulators that were apparently causing the problems in limiting manufactured housing.  Some of those problems were the result of decisions being made within and beyond the industry’s ranks by powerful interests that wanted to keep the industry smaller, at least for some years.  Nor is that mere speculation, given that several companies have all but said as much in corporate presentations to their investors. A 2024 example of that is shown below. To see the annotated screen capture below in a larger size – taken from a prominent MHI member ELS’s investor relations page – click here and then follow the prompts.

 

 

7) If ELS were alone among MHI members in that stance, perhaps a case could be made that they are an outlier. But Sun Communities (SUI) has issued a very similar statement in their investor relations pitch. Outsiders looking in as well as industry professionals should recall the dustup caused by the Blue Orca research which cited Sun’s CEO Gary Shiffman as a person who ought to be in prison for his behavior. To see the graphic below in a larger size, click here and follow the prompts from your cursor.  What Sun and ELS call “compelling supply demand fundamentals” is them apparently turning the industry’s zoning issues into a claimed positive for their business model. Never mind that it means that the industry’s retailers have vaporized in the 21st century downturn. Never mind that some 60 percent or more of the corporations that existed at the turn of the century are now gone or consolidated. Who said? MHI. 

 

 

8) That MHI document on the dramatic loss of production centers linked above and here are among the items that MHI has apparently memory holed. Try to find this MHI document elsewhere online, including the public facing side of their website. Good luck with that hunt. What doesn’t fit the MHI narrative de jour often vanishes. That claim applies to their own documents, past quotable quotes, and includes the names of members of their own staff. That fact pattern fits the definition of an Orwellian memory hole. That is MHI, a.k.a. the Machiavellian Housing Institute.

 

9) For example. MHI emails? Those are often not to be found online, save on the MHProNews and/or MHLivingNews website. By contrast, the National Association of Realtors routinely publishes their emailed items as does MHARR posting almost everything they send out to their email list. Why is MHI the outlier?

 

 

 

10) Let’s pivot back to the ELS and Sun remarks in their respective and similar in that regard, investor pitches.  Flagship Communities makes it clear that they want to see the industry consolidated. Note that ELS, Sun, and Flagship all hold board positions on MHI’s main board of directors. In fact, Flagship’s co-founder is a former MHI chairman who happens to be a self-described never Trumper. Smith is a prominent Obama-Biden (D) supporter. Despite poor BBB ratings, Smith’s firm and Smith himself is an MHI-state association-RV Hall of Fame ‘award winner.’ How does that work when someone sued by their own residents ends up getting awards and accolades by MHI-linked operations?

 

 

 

 

11) MHProNews contacted a former MHI vice president recently. That VP was asked to comment on MHI, since their NDA was likely to have expired. The two word reply? No thanks. Others don’t want to talk about their time at MHI either. Why not, if MHI is so grand and if they are on the proverbial up and up?

 

 

 

a) MHI has been known to threaten those who dare to complain about them or otherwise expose them.

 

b) MHI has apparently changed their meeting rules to make it possible to eject someone if they raise a topic that is frowned upon.

 

 

12) But let’s pivot back to Champion Homes (SKY) and that report for the week in review. Champion made it clear in their investor presentation that a large chunk of their business is land-lease community operators.  That means, companies like ELS, Sun, Flagship and others that are consolidation focused and de facto believe that zoning barriers help their business models. One out of four new factory-built homes produced by Champion, per their investor pitch, goes into a land lease community. But given the phrasing of their illustration on the top left, that total may be approaching 1/3 of their production could be going into land lease communities owned by community operators who are often MHI members. The first four firms named by Champion below among the top 10 community operators are all MHI members, and others may be too. Among the items MHI memory holed from public access is their membership list. Apparently, MHI didn’t like it that MHProNews and MHLivingNews would draw the comparison between companies that attracted negative media, legal, or governmental attention and MHI membership. To open the illustration below in a larger size, click here and follow the prompts or follow the instructions below.

 

 

13) It is arguably difficult to make the case that MHI and several of their key members authentically want robust growth. By contrast, once someone grasps the details of each publicly traded corporate organization involved, it is reasonably easy to make the case that key MHI members WANT the industry underperforming as measured by production, at least at this time. That said, there are exceptions.  UMH Properties claims to be such an exception, see their contrarian (to the dominant narrative at MHI) case for robustly expanding the number of land lease communities.

 

 

a) But to further illustrate how prevalent the desire is to keep development low, and by extension thereby keep production lower too, Frank Rolfe called Sam Landy “asinine” for wanting robust developing. MHI member Rolfe openly made the case that no operator should ever develop a new community.

 

 

 

14) A longtime industry veteran told MHProNews, “Tony, keep hitting them (MHI and their insider brands) with the facts. Facts, facts, facts.” Why? Because per that source, the facts are what exposes what is genuinely occurring in the diminished manufactured housing industry.

So, while other trade media and bloggers in the MHI orbit routinely post pro-MHI fluff, or on occasion try to create controversies over nonsense to make themselves seem more important, it is MHProNews and MHLivingNews that hammers away with facts, evidence, buttressed by a deep understanding of the industry. That’s what decades of working in the industry, working in retail, with producers, lenders, community operators, and associations can yield. Because years before we launched what became MHProNews, this writer was hands on involved in several of the sectors of the industry and often with some of the larger firms in the business too. Understanding based upon facts, evidence, and experience and can yield apparent patterns that either support or differ from what MHI claims. It is no fault of a journalist to expose how often MHI’s claims differ from evidence and reality.

 

 

15) Why don’t others in the MHI orbit routinely produce and share a graphic like the one above? Because it doesn’t fit the MHI narrative. This a reply to an email from then Skyline Champion’s Sarah Janowicz.

Hi Tony – We appreciate the opportunity to provide responses to clarify questions relating to our earnings call. While we also appreciate the interest on getting our feedback on the additional follow up questions, we are declining to provide additional information at this time.

More on Janowicz and Champion Homes is planned in the days ahead, as the evidence of potential violations of fiduciary and stakeholder interests are mounting.  It would be unfair to say that Champion (SKY) alone falls in that category, as the quick look at ELS, Sun, and Flagship above indicate. 

 

16) Manufactured housing is underperforming despite good laws that widely bipartisan Congressional action made possible specifically to address the affordable housing crisis and to boost manufactured housing’s role in that process. MHProNews has directly and indirectly invited MHI leaders to publicly engage in a discussion or debate of such issues. They routinely decline to do so. That’s no proof that they are wrong and that this publication is correct. But it does call into question MHI’s ability to disprove what their own members have said. Consolidation is not just a manufactured housing industry concern, as MHProNews has noted for some years by citing sources from across the left-right divide.

 

MHProNews will continue to monitor and report as deemed warranted. Programming notice: watch for a follow up specifically related to MHI member Champion Homes in the days ahead. It could prove to be a doozy.

Notice: try to find any of these graphics, or something like them, on an MHI linked trade media or blogger site besides MHProNews/MHLivingNews. Good luck on that, which begs the question. To be in the MHI orbit does someone have to fairly routinely carry their water? It appears so, and AI powered Copilot has said so too. Perhaps that explains why MHProNews dominates MHI’s traffic and the known traffic of their allied bloggers/trade publishers too. As the linked report further below indicated, there are times that a single article on MHProNews may have more traffic (visitors) than a rival website does for an entire month. Reliable information in a sea of posers has its rewards.

 

 

 

 

As 2025 looms and 2024 begins to fade into the history books, count on MHProNews to provide the best of both the past and the present with an eye on the future.

For he lives twice who can at once employ,
The present well, and e’en the past enjoy.

– Alexander Pope

 

 

Notice on the quotable quote below. Not all criminals hold a gun. Some wear fine clothes, drive luxury vehicles, and may even have boats and private aircraft. They may also hold sway over one or several politicos.

 

 

 

 

 

 

So, as New Years looms, look for more “Industry News, Tips, and Views Pros Can Use” ^© where “We Provide, You Decide.” ^© Let’s tap into every good human and Divine power to make 2025 a year to remember. For those who grasp the importance of history, 50 more linked Sunday Weekly Headlines Recaps for 2024 follow.  ##

 

Dozens of more Sunday Weekly headlines recaps are found further below. Learn more to earn more and enjoy.

 

Again, our thanks to free email subscribers and all readers like you, as well as our tipsters/sources, sponsors and God for making and keeping us the runaway number one source for authentic “News through the lens of manufactured homes and factory-built housing” © where “We Provide, You Decide.” © ## (Affordable housing, manufactured homes, reports, fact-checks, analysis, and commentary. Third-party images or content are provided under fair use guidelines for media.) See Related Reports, further below. Text/image boxes often are hot-linked to other reports that can be access by clicking on them.)

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.

This article reflects the LLC’s and/or the writer’s position and may or may not reflect the views of sponsors or supporters.

http://latonykovach.com

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