“The truth is, low-wage workers are making real gains in Seattle’s labor market. In almost all categories of traditionally low-wage work, there are more employers in the market than at any time in the city’s history.” – Quoted from UW minimum-wage study doesn’t reflect reality of work in Seattle, posted […]
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The Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) recent legislative fly-in reportedly had the lowest turn-out in years; perhaps ever, according to sources who said they were in attendance. The event was touted by MHI as focusing on two main issues. 1) HUD Regulatory overreach, and 2) Preserving Access to Manufactured Housing Act
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The Ohio Manufactured Home Association (OMHA) tells MHProNews that they’ve successfully passed their desired change to state law regarding abandoned manufactured homes. “While several changes have been made to the verification of value, the most important change will be to homes with deceased titleholders,” OMHA said. “Prior law gave us
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Several recent industry events have highlighted just how significant the incorrect use of jargon – terminology – is for manufactured housing retailers, communities, producers and others who serve, supply, and support the industry. For instance, the Ohio Manufactured Home Association (OMHA) and their state’s resident group struggle to keep their
Lies, Fables and MH Impact – A Rose by Any Other Name… Read More
The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) manufactured housing program administrator, Pamela Beck Danner, JD, or another person there authorized the issue of an Interpretive Bulletin (IB) concerning “frost-free” and frost-protected manufactured housing foundations in freezing climates. The HUD IB was issued on June 23, 2017, states the Manufactured
While lumber costs have risen for all of housing – including factory builders – fuel prices are falling. In fact, CNN Money reports that prices are the lowest they’ve been in about 12 years. NBC News in the video below echoes that reality, stating that prices are expected to stay
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“A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.” – Thomas Jefferson, Rights of British America, 1774 (1) “A people… who are possessed of the spirit of commerce, who see and who will pursue their advantages may
Because Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway has such big chunks of the manufactured housing industry’s production, lending, suppliers, and more – the “Oracle of Omaha’s” thoughts are carefully followed by the industry’s professionals. In a recent video interview with Judy Woodruff on PBS, the discussion included a look at what should
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“Affordable home ownership is Human Capital Investing as opposed to warehousing humans like cattle in a corral,” said Donald Tye, Jr. He made that and other potent comments as part of an in-depth upcoming video interview and related conversations with a man who understands factory-built housing after decades of first
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The odds of passing the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) backed “Preserving Access to Manufactured Housing Act” may be rising. Sources tell MHProNews that MHI has reported to their members in an email yesterday that, “the House Appropriations Committee’s Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government (FSGG) passed the language of
“From the moment Governor John Kasich‘s Administration first proposed to eliminate the Ohio Manufactured Homes Commission, the air has been full of misleading information and derogatory comments directed at almost one million Ohio residents who live in manufactured homes,” said Tim Williams, Executive Director of the Ohio Manufactured Homes Association
Governor’s Controversial Manufactured Housing Battle Concludes Read More
That a wide array of private businesses are subject to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is not a surprise to thousands of manufactured housing industry professionals from coast to coast. As recently as this month, Fair Housing attorney – Nadeen Green, JD – has published on the subject of
Are the Blind, Leading Legally? Ruling on Websites, ADA Puts MH Businesses on Notice Read More
The Texas Manufactured Housing Association (TMHA) has wrapped up the heavy lifting from their legislative session. The TMHA’s DJ Pendleton tells MHProNews that they set out to achieve two major goals. Their report to the Daily Business News having achieved both of their key efforts. It’s the background and import
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“You are entitled to your own opinions. But you are not entitled to your own facts.” So said Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who was paraphrased recently by Tim Williams of the Ohio Manufactured Housing Association, in that association’s efforts to battle the Kasich Administration’s ongoing plan to over-regulate manufactured housing in
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The Herald Leader reports that the Siloam Springs, Arkansas Board of Directors approved a pair of moratoriums on Tuesday to “buy time for city code change on medical marijuana and mobile home [sic] trailer parks [sic].” The local paper said that “The moratoriums will temporarily prohibit applications from being made
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In the 1970’s President Jimmy Carter urged the nation to turn down thermostats as a way of conserving resources, to become “energy independent” from foreign countries. Some wags suggested Americans lower our body temperature below 98.6 as a means to conserve energy. Now, some forty plus years later, the Trump
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The Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) has created its own controversy, on the eve of their much ballyhooed “Legislative Fly-In” to Washington, D.C. Two of the industry trade association’s senior staffers were allegedly terminated, days prior to their event, as was first reported by the Daily Business News, at this link
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The hands down king of affordable permanent housing in the U. S. is single section (a.k.a. ‘single wide’) manufactured homes. On a cost per square foot basis, they are hard to beat, as U.S. Census Bureau – and other research from sources such as Zillow, or the National Association of
Are Americans Hunting for the Single Sectional Manufactured Home Alternative? Read More
There are certainly voices on both sides of the climate controversy and how that relates to energy policy. To oversimplify is to say that Secretary Hillary Clinton and Jill Stein represented those in the 2016 presidential race that broadly favored continuing along the path that President Obama’s administration had begun.
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“Credit is one of the most powerful devices of the financial system designed over time by modern societies. It gives people the freedom to spend money now – whether to cover a medical expense, an emergency repair, buy a home or send their child to school – and pay it
