At the base or footer of the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) home page is the name of the firm responsible for their website: YokoCo.com. Per Chris Yoko on their website: “Yoko Co is proud to announce that we remain committed to continued carbon neutrality.” “In the interest of transparency and …
“No dual standard of justice. We do not permit thieves to investigate the crimes of other thieves.” Armstrong Williams is the author of the op-ed featured in Part I below that uses the remarks paraphrased in the headline. Williams attended the inaugural Innovative Housing Showcase (IHS) which touted manufactured housing …
“Rachel Siegel, who works on housing policy at the Pew Charitable Trusts,” said: “People think about the old dilapidated mobile home of yore, and as a result, manufactured housing has been zoned out. It’s relegated to the outskirts—parks and communities that are sometimes in flood zones or undesirable parts of …
The Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) report on January 3, 2023 reveals that new HUD Code manufactured home production in November of 2023 continued to decline. Per MHARR, that means that the decline has now hit 13 straight months. MHARR cites official sources on behalf of the U.S. …
According to the Justia legal website, Muns v. Datacomp Appraisal Systems, Inc. et al was filed on 12.1.2023. The plaintiff is Andrea Muns, and named defendants in that case includes Murex Properties, plus others that have become familiar to regular and detail minded readers of MHProNews and MHLivingNews. Per Justia, …
“They’re what I call black holes in journalism. There are certain events and certain subjects that you…you may not cover.” That’s according to Kristina Borjesson, a former CBS News journalist who reportedly was terminated for attempting to probe an area that CBS News’ parent company and federal officials purportedly did …
The Normalcy Bias is defined by left-leaning Wikipedia as a mental state that “causes people to underestimate both the possibility of a disaster occurring and its possible effects.” Patrice Lewis cited that below in her look back at 2023 and the look ahead at 2024. Lewis also cited a range of …
It would have been difficult to imagine just a few years ago that state officials would go to court to argue to limit the rights of their own citizens to free speech. After all, free speech was considered so important in American history from its earliest days that after winning …
Reflections and insights in this report and analysis come from an array of sources, including personal encounters. For example. It has been a few years since this writer’s last eye examination. Having recently returned last year to Polk County, FL from nearby Osceola County, I was overdue for an eye …
HUD recently revealed its annual report on homelessness. Despite federal, state, and local spending, HUD’s own data admitted that homelessness is on the rise to record levels, despite ever-higher spending. Perhaps U.S. Senator Joni Ernst’s (IA-R) “Naughty No Shows” list might spark the notion that vacant federal office space could …
Near the end or ‘the bottom’ of the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) email that follows, MHI has the following statement. “MHI News & Updates is a bi-weekly, members-only publication with important updates on federal legislative and regulatory activities, association accomplishments, industry events and other items important to our membership.” However, …
‘God has this problem: He seems to think that He is God.’ That’s an evergreen maxim just as the headline paraphrase of the following John Adams quote, confirmed by the Quote Investigator. “Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, …
The average price nationally of a new HUD Code manufactured home in July 2023 was below the cost for the average manufactured home in in 2022 or 2021. Who says? The most recent U.S. Census Bureau data. In July 2023, per the Census Bureau, the average cost for a new …
As this news analysis will explore, there are several states where primarily Democratic officials are attempting to keep deposed President Donald J. Trump from being on their primary ballots under the premise that he is an “insurrectionist.” But remarks like those made by lifelong Democrat Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an …
David Ditch is a “Senior Policy Analyst, Budget Policy, Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget” at and per the Heritage Foundation. Ditch spoke with MHProNews on an affordable housing related topic on 12.19.2023. “The under-production of housing…has undermined the country’s prosperity and growth for decades,” said Ditch. More …
BlackRock (BLK) reportedly has significant manufactured housing industry investments, some of which are noted herein below. That noted, the opening paragraph of a 73-page complaint against private equity giant BlackRock, stated the following. “As one of the world’s largest investment-management firms, defendant BlackRock, Inc. has been at the forefront of …
“Homelessness is solvable and should not exist in the United States,” said Secretary Marcia L. Fudge per the press release found below in this fact- and evidence-packed report and analysis that includes the entire statement from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The PIT is HUD’s abbreviation …
The purpose of analytical journalism is to ‘connect the dots’ that a typical news report may not provide. When the Texas Real Estate Research Center (TRERC) released its latest monthly report on 12.13.2023, MHProNews made the decision to hang back a bit and see if any others in MHVille trade …
Facts-Evidence-Manufactured Home Industry Expert News Analysis. There is no single factor that explains why the manufactured housing industry is underperforming during an affordable housing crisis. There are several factors, which researchers and manufactured housing industry pros alike agree include the challenges of barriers in zoning and inequalities in finance. That …
The affordable housing industry obviously operates within the larger macro-U.S. economic, business, and political environment. To better understand what is occurring in our profession, it is therefore useful to take the periodic look around at the bigger picture that includes, but goes beyond, our affordable home profession. With that brief …
