“The people actually gained power which the king lost. For economic power tends to draw after it political power; and the history of the industrial revolution shows how that power passed from the king and the aristocracy to the bourgeoisie,” per Edward L. Bernays in his classic book “Propaganda,” which …
“Price pressure for raw materials showed signs of easing in April, according to the latest Texas Manufactured Housing Survey (TMHS),” according to a May 10, 2022 media release from the Texas Real Estate Research Center to MHProNews and other media outlets. Texas, as many manufactured home professionals know, has long …
In a news release to MHProNews and others in manufactured housing is the following from the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR). The topic is the ongoing controversies regarding the pending Department of Energy (DOE) standards proposed for HUD Code manufactured homes, which MHARR has characterized as a “bait …
When the manufactured home industry was just marginally up from its 2009-2010 low point, Green Court Partners (GCP) Chairman Randy Rowe issued what was dubbed a five-point plan for manufactured home industry recovery. It is one of a collection of several years of classic interviews with manufactured home industry professionals …
As our manufactured housing connected tracked equites graphic further below reveals, almost all of those stocks took a dive on 5.6.2022. It may be too soon to say that the U.S. economy is moving toward a collapse, as some alarmists are claiming, But the fact that the first quarter of …
Job Creators Network (JCN) President and CEO Alfredo Ortiz recently published an op-ed that first appeared on the Hill and has since been republished on the JCN website. Ortiz cites facts and figures, including research produced for JCN polling small businesses. That JCN survey included small businesses owned by Democrats, …
Affordable manufactured homes were ‘sabotaged’ by builders and HUD per Univ of Minnesota Professor James A. “Jim” Schmitz’s DoJ/FTC Expert Statement – ‘Exploit Members of Own Group’ per MHLivingNews special report. According to Construction News Today and others in media on 5.4.2022 is the following news release hereby picked up …
Manufactured home production continues to grow year over year and month over month in March 2022, per the latest data provided by the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) to MHProNews. By comparison, the long vaunted FAANGs stocks have fallen significantly recently. Subway is another example of a brand …
Columnist Laura Hollis opened one of her op-ed’s on WND with this interesting notion: “Donald Trump’s strength as a president was not that he was better at running the country. It was that he believed in taking a hands-off approach and letting Americans run our own country with far less …
In a roughly 1250-word article, Terry Collins writing for USA Today on 5.2.2022 has arguably done the manufactured housing industry a significant favor. Yet Collin’s report, entitled “For first-time homebuyers, are starter homes becoming extinct?” never used the words, “mobile home,” “manufactured home,” “manufactured housing,” “off-site built homes,” “prefabricated homes,” …
At a pre-COVID19 Louisville Show a senior vice president for a major U.S. furniture supplier was marveling at the quality, eye appeal, and value of modern manufactured homes. Be they the entry level “shade and shelter” models or the more “residential” styles of HUD Code manufactured homes, he was clearly …
“It’s the economy, stupid” was the famous quip from Democratic strategist James Carville who helped secure William “Bill” Clinton (D) the presidency in 1992. Well, markets dropped sharply on Friday amid more troubling economic news. Inflation is soaring. As a report linked below on MHLivingNews reflects, foreclosures are reportedly set …
Despite the Biden Administration’s FHFA initially rejecting the plans submitted by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) said in a 4.28.2022 new release that the two Government Sponsored Enterprises (GSEs or “Enterprises”) submitted plans that provided no or only possible miniscule lending support. …
A text message came into MHProNews that began the following probe into what is occurring on the hot-button topic of manufactured housing backlogs. MHLivingNews hears from consumers who are often upset by long delays in orders, something which wasn’t common just two years ago. MHProNews periodically hears from retail sellers …
The Washington, D.C. based Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) continues to keep manufactured home professionals informed on topics that their larger rivals from across the Potomac River in Arlington, VA may fail to publicly convey, or do so in a distinctively different fashion. The Arlington based Manufactured Housing …
“I’ll bet they [AMAC.us] are loving the great news of Elon Musk buying Twitter and his efforts to protect free speech. (Hope it’s genuine!)” So read one of the comments that came into MHProNews since one of ‘the world’s richest man,’ Elon Musk, announcement of the deal to buy Twitter …
A growing number of public officials and pundits are calling what is occurring at the U.S. Mexico border an “invasion” of the U.S.A. Some are scolding the Biden regime for being concerned about other nation’s borders, but not about protecting the U.S. border with Mexico. There is talk that if …
As masks increasingly come off of faces, the realization is hitting numbers than masks are a fine metaphor for whatever has gone wrong in America — and in our underperforming profession. As rich a blessing as living in America obviously can be, aspects of the American Dream are also clearly …
Preface to journalist Rebecca Strong’s report on media consolidation and its impact on society. In curating content from third parties, a few editorial guideposts have proven useful since the earliest days of MHProNews. Sources from both the left, center, and right are sought. Near the apex must be factual accuracy. …
The distinctions – good, bad, meh, and sometimes ugly – between the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) and the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) were on display during and after the 4.20.2022 “White House Listening Session” on manufactured home lending. For example. While MHARR is notably smaller than MHI, …
