“Our mission is to fight homelessness with dignified living, getting the homeless off the streets and in a sustainable, supportive community environment benefiting themselves, the community, and the city’s economy.” So says the About Us page on the Kansas City, Kansas (KCK) Eden Village website. “Eden Village of Kansas City is a community model that builds tiny home communities for the chronically homeless.” In their prior promotional video below, the homes are described as 400 square manufactured tiny homes. The current news item video follows the first posted video.
KMBC News 9 says that with the arrival of the “first mini home KCK’s Eden Village” are a step toward what “organizers say there will be 23 mini homes and a community center.” Per ABC 9: “The community will feature mini homes similar to those at the Veterans Community Project on the Missouri side.
“We get to see them finally get a place to stay,” said Terry Claudell, president of Eden Village.”
The first of 23 homes rolled into the village on Tuesday. Each home has 400 square feet, a living room, a kitchen, a bedroom, and a full bath.
“There’s over 2,000 folks without homes right now in the Kansas City general area,” Claudell said.
The location just off Metropolitan Avenue is the site of a former mobile home park. Claudell said when completed, there will be 23 mini-homes and a community center. Residents will be able to live there for about $300 a month.
“We say it’s a hand up instead of a handout,” Claudell said.
He said they hope to have the park open by May. Right now, nine of the 23 homes have already been purchased through donations. He said it’s just a matter of working with the city on all the details.
“We can make a difference. We can help these folks,” Claudell said.
He said that three years ago, when they started the project, the homes were about $35,000 each to buy. Now with inflation, they are almost $60,000.
“It’s all by donation,” Claudell said.” The full ABC 9 report, including a video transcript, is found at this link here. The video below is from a previous news report on an Eden Village that opened in Springfield, MO.
Unpacking and Analysis of Report with More MHProNews Information, Insights and Analysis
It can and should be uplifting to know that some people volunteer their time, talents, and treasure in order to reach out to those who are disadvantaged. That noted, stories like this one from KCK are playing out in different ways in cities and towns across America, although not always with tiny houses, as MHProNews/MHLivingNews has periodically highlighted for years. The homeless are often pressed into that way of life by circumstances that they had limited or no control over. The causes are numerous, as the sampling of linked items below reflects.
There are more examples of reports on MHProNews and our sister MHLivingNews platforms that deal with the issue of homelessness. But let these linked ones be sufficient for now. Because those examples already dwarf what could be found on so-called rival MHVille trade media/blogger sites, which can’t, won’t, or don’t cover the issues and meaning of topics that upset the narrative that the ‘powers that be’ carefully craft.
For a more specific example of this issue, in – Why is Seattle Dying? – one of the root causes of homelessness has been identified as the lack of affordable housing. Put differently and from the vantagepoint of affordable factory-built housing, because many of these same cities have long barred or made difficult the placement of new HUD Code manufactured homes, over time one of the consequences of that NIMBYite behavior is that some people will become homeless.
If robust manufactured home placements weren’t so difficult in cities and towns across America, would these KCK or Springfield “Eden Village” type projects be needed at all?
According to the World Population Review, in 2022: “The current population of Kansas City, Kansas is 158,771.” The transcript of the ABC 9 KMBC News item above says: “There’s over 2000 folks without homes, right now in the Kansas City general area.” In 2021, “Right now there are nearly 1733 people in Kansas City experiencing homelessness and 386 are under the age of 18,” per Project Homelessness Connect for KC. Presuming the accuracy of about 2000 homeless out of 158,711 people living in KCK, that equates to .0126 (1.26 percent) of the population of that Midwestern American city. The New York Times said on 7.15.2022 that “America’s Homelessness Crisis Is Getting Worse.”
So, with the highest federal spending since World War II in PINO Biden’s America, the problem of homelessness is growing.
While the estimates on the numbers of homeless is far from certain, and as the examples shown herein make clear that the various sources nor do all agree on the percentage or numbers of the homeless, Policy Advice puts the figure at .2%. Neighbor’s January 2022 report that used 2020 homelessness data said there are some “580,466 [homeless] people, around 18 of every 10,000 people in the United States.” The New York Times and others have said since then that the numbers are rising, not falling.
So, while it is noble to create ‘a village’ for a few dozen homeless people, it is apparently more of a token approach that fails to address the root causes. Doing the math, these charitable or governmental ‘solutions’ have not yet demonstrated any ability to reduce or eliminate the growing numbers of the homeless.
Dedicated and attentive MHProNews/MHLivingNews readers may recall that just days ago survey data revealed, and USA Today reported, that many younger Americans are feeling hopeless about becoming a homeowner. The National Association of Realtors (NAR) research supported the notion that despite the hoopla, black homeownership is down under Biden and Democratic rule.
Recall too that the Modular Home Builders Association’s (MHBA) Tom Hardiman accused the Biden regime of “political payoffs” that postured and promised but would not perform as advertised. Was Hardiman just lucky in that statement? Or did he rather review the evidence and come to that conclusion based on his own analysis of the facts?
Considering the emerging facts and evidence that dispel Bidenland-Democratic claims on behalf of its corporate backers, it any wonder that consumers are being described as having “fears for the future” in 2022? With economic decline, record high housing costs, rising interest rates, fuel, food and other examples of inflation rising, the corporate and billionaire backers of the Democratic Party’s agenda are asking Americans to ignore the evidence and to buy instead their often-repeated talking points which resemble gaslighting and propaganda.
The Google search below reveals numerous articles, often from left-leaning news (i.e.: typically pro-Democratic sources) that illustrate that billionaires and their corporate interests have captured the contemporary Democratic Party. That’s not a partisan statement, it is the evidence that also supported the notion from some years ago that similar forces dominated “establishment” Republicans. Indeed, the Republican or “Grand Old Party” (GOP) is still witnessing a power struggle as America First/MAGA Republicans seek to wrestle control of that party away from Establishment (i.e. corporate and their top bosses) control.
The Biden Housing Plan
Despite promises to manufactured housing and the housing market in general, the Biden plan for housing is proving to be a dud that is long on talk but short on positive action. More to the point, CNN recently reported that first time homebuying has plunged to a record low.
Note that the NYTimes, CNN, and the USA Today are all rated as left-leaning, which are generally more favorable toward Biden-Democratic policies and politics.
So, if those are the ‘facts’ per pro-Democratic sources, what might be the complete reality if the politics and fluff are stripped out of their respective data claims?
What It Means
But perhaps as or more important is what this ought to mean for manufactured housing professionals and all affordable housing advocates of good will (as opposed to merely posturing ones). When the free market solution that manufactured housing offers is artificially suppressed, obviously the overall cost of housing will tend to rise, even apart from inflation. The public policy solutions – often long on promises – have been short on delivery for 50 years. Yes, for emphasis, there have been 5 decades of promises, promises by establishment Republicans as well as establishment Democrats, per HUD’s own Policy Development and Research (HUD PD&R) analysis by Regina Gray and Pamela Blumenthal.
While all this is occurring, the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) keeps talking as if things are still ‘business as usual.’ That’s obviously NOT the case. MHI is increasingly being revealed as a tool of consolidators, rather than an advocate for “all segments” of the manufactured housing industry as they have long claimed. Since when has manufactured home residents been involved in a meaningful way at MHI? Aren’t they a segment of the industry? One should harken back to what prior MHI president and CEO, Chris Stinebert said in his exit message, quoted below.
For over 5 years, the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) has been calling on members of the manufactured home industry to forge a new post-production trade group that they could collaborate with to battle the forces that are keeping manufactured housing at a record low ebb through much of the 21st century. No matter how much distraction, disinformation, slurs, or subtle paltering/posturing occurs on behalf of leftist billionaires-corporate-dominated Democratic interests in or beyond MHVille, the facts can and do emerge that debunk their narrative.
More recently, without dropping the call for a new post-production trade group to supplant MHI, MHARR has pointedly called on MHI to forge a legal effort to stop what has been described as a destructive, pending DOE energy rule for manufactured housing.
MHARR has also called on MHI to litigate to get HUD “enhanced preemption” authority for manufactured housing enforced. Tiny home advocates are suing localities to get their rights enforced. Why not MHI?
A decade has elapsed since MHProNews asked Tim Williams/21st Mortgage Corporation during an MHI meeting why the association was using litigation to press the industry’s rights under the Manufactured Housing Improvement Act of 2000 and that “enhanced preemption” language? Williams smiled as he began to respond to that question by saying that someday litigation may be necessary. But MHI leaders had other steps they wanted to try first. Isn’t a decade of trying alternatives more than long enough? Isn’t 22 years since the enactment of the MHIA and enhanced preemption long enough? Is MHProNews/MHLivingNews the only manufactured housing industry focused trade media seeking to hold Williams, 21st – a Berkshire Hathaway owned brand – and MHI accountable for dismal performance and ignoring the obvious solutions during the 21st century?
Homeless is not an accident. While a relatively small number of citizens may ‘want’ to be homeless, most are arguably homeless because there is insufficient affordable housing.
Clayton Homes or other MHI members may occasionally donate a home to ‘fight homelessness,’ but wouldn’t it be more effective if Clayton, 21st, and MHI donated the legal resources needed to press for an enforcement of the good laws that already exist at the federal level that might “unleash” manufactured housing to potentially record sales numbers?
After former MHI President and CEO Richard “Dick” Jennison was pressed by MHProNews directly and through Williams/21st, Jennison publicly proclaimed that manufactured housing could achieve 500,000 new home sales annually. That’s entirely possible, and may be too low an estimate, given the millions of housing units needed in the nation at this moment.
Put differently, when these various researched reports are considered as puzzle pieces and those pieces are examined in the light of the bigger picture they create, they frame a striking case for the harm caused in society when affordable manufactured homes are artificially limited by market manipulators of various types.
Investors in publicly traded firms in manufactured housing are often arguably being short changed. Why? Because when firms like Clayton Homes, Skyline Champion, Cavco Industries, Equity LifeStyle Properties (ELS), Sun Communities (SUI), Flagship Communities (TSX: MHC.U), or others are more focused on consolidation than a robust expansion of the industry’s ability to sell homes on par with conventional housing into cities and towns across America. That’s not a conspiracy theory, rather, it’s their publicly stated stance that is backed up by years of evidence.
Ironically, PINO Biden’s White House Fact Sheet on Competition makes a similar point, though they are talking in general, and not about manufactured housing specifically. Longterm and detail-minded MHProNews readers will recall that this platform predicted that this seemingly impressive set of claims and actions would go nowhere. Why? Because Biden and the Democratic Party were not going to bite the hand that feeds them politically, namely, the leftish billionaire and corporate class.
A recent lawsuit claims that the oligopoly form of monopolization is reducing wages in America by some 20 percent. So, this impacts almost everyone – smaller businesses, employees of firms, investors, affordable housing seekers, and the list goes on. Is it any wonder that homelessness is spreading in a manipulated economy?
These facts could become the talking points for:
- Disruptive new entrants into manufactured housing that are willing to challenge the status quo and flip the script of the moat-builders against them in a profitable fashion.
- A new trade group that could be flexing its muscles in tandem with MHARR to sideline MHI, who is essentially acting as a PR operation that benefits consolidators without doing much of what they formally claim.
- Investors who are true contrarians, who recognize that the dominating brands in MHVille are arguably failing in their fiduciary responsibilities, and that the real need is to back the expansion of competing existing firms and/or create new ones that restore the more robust days of manufactured housing.
All road may or may not lead to Rome, as the old proverb goes. But the harms done to society by consolidation and the oligopoly form of monopolization are evident to those who take the time to understand how the puzzle pieces fit.
Want to fight the root causes of poverty and homelessness?
If so, then someone must take up the fight against the modern form of monopolists. That’s what years of research and evidence reveals.
The laws that were enacted nearly 150 years ago to punish those who manipulate the system already exist. Market and political manipulators operate in ways designed to enrich themselves while routinely harming society. Properly engage in the potentially wildly profitable fight of that battle and someone can witness the rebirth of the American Dream from the current form of contemporary feudalism. That’s what so many of the facts point toward. ###
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Headlines from left-of-center CNN Business – from the evening of 11.28.2022
- Payouts skyrocket
- A record $100 billion was paid out in life insurance benefits last year
- ‘Grave urgency’: Over 400 business groups plead with Congress to prevent rail strike
- Bob Iger says Disney hiring freeze will stay in place as he returns as CEO
- US oil prices fall to lowest level since December 2021
- Baby product company recalls 10,500 of its stainless steel sippy cups over lead poisoning risk
- Russia backtracks on threat to cut gas supply to Moldova via Ukraine
- Global markets fall after protests erupt in China over Covid lockdowns
- Sunday was the busiest day at US airports since before the pandemic
- Barclays CEO says he has cancer but will continue to run the bank
- Meta fined $275 million for violations of Europe’s data privacy law
- Online Black Friday sales set a new record
- Watch what one of the first Cyber Mondays looked like
- BBC journalist ‘beaten and kicked by the police’ at China protests
- Content by The Ascent
- It’s official: now avoid credit card interest into 2024
- Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange during morning trading on November 17, 2022 in New York City. Stocks are expected to fall as the stock market opened with interest rates rising as Federal Reserve officials signal more interest rate hikes to continue to slow down inflation.
- Dow tumbles 500 points but could actually end the year in the green
- Twitter searches for China protests bombarded by spam and porn, raising alarms among researchers
- Why going into work five days a week is a thing of the past
- MARKETS
- CONSUMER
- A customer shops for children’s clothes at a Gap Inc. store in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Thursday, Feb. 28, 2013.
- Parents are buying fewer baby clothes, a sign of deep financial distress
- Holiday shopping seems solid, despite inflation
- Chicken prices are finally starting to fall
- It’s the most expensive holiday travel season ever
- Shoppers are pulling back at Macy’s and Kohl’s
- APPLE
- Globalstar operates an advanced satellite network and ground stations across the US and around the world, providing iPhone 14 users the ability to contact lifesaving emergency services when outside of cellular and Wi-Fi connection range.
- We tried the new SOS tool for when you don’t have cell service
- Why Apple may be working on a ‘hey Siri’ change
- Apple is doing better than fellow tech giants
- AirDrop file sharing curbed on devices in China
- Apple raises prices for music and TV streaming services
- WHAT TO WATCH
- SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA – MAY 09: A Rivian electric pickup truck sits in a parking lot at a Rivian service center on May 09, 2022 in South San Francisco, California. Shares of Rivian stock fell 13 percent after Ford, which currently owns as 11.4 percent stake in the electric car maker, is planning to sell 8 million of its 102 million shares.
- Rivian has a cult-like following. Can the maker of pricey EVs scale?
- Jell-O has survived more than 120 years. What happened to it?
- LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – NOVEMBER 11: Smoked turkeys are displayed for sale in a grocery store ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday on November 11, 2021 in Los Angeles, California. U.S. consumer prices have increased solidly in the past few months on items such as food, rent, cars and other goods as inflation has risen to a level not seen in 30 years. The consumer-price index rose by 6.2 percent in October compared to one year ago.
- Here is what rising prices mean for your Thanksgiving
- An employee walks through the aisles of Mary Arnold Toys, New York city oldest toy store on August 2, 2021. – It’s always “better to shop a little early” for the holidays, but this year, Judy Ishayik, co-owner of a New York toy store says, “We are telling people to shop for Christmas in September.”
- Global shipping snags are causing shortages, delivery delays and price increases — all headaches for toy stores and manufacturers.
- Hasbro CEO: What games are hot — and not — this holiday season
- This solar startup can harness massive amounts of power from the sun
- SUCCESS
- A record $100 billion was paid out in life insurance benefits last year
- A for sale sign is posted in front of a single family house at Beverly Anne Street on June 13, 2022, in Las Vegas.
- Mortgage rates fall for the second week in a row
- Get paid via Venmo, Etsy or Airbnb? Here’s what you need to know before tax season
- ‘It’s like living in an igloo.’ People are turning off their heat as prices surge
- TECH
- Twitter searches for China protests bombarded by spam and porn, raising alarms among researchers
- Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks during the annual F8 summit at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California on May 1, 2018.
- Irish regulator fines Meta $275 million for violations of Europe’s data privacy law
- Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX, waits to speak during the Satellite 2020 at the Washington Convention CenterMarch 9, 2020, in Washington, DC.
- Layoffs, ultimatums, and an ongoing saga over blue check marks: Elon Musk’s first month at Twitter
- Security forces clash with workers during a protest outside Apple supplier Foxconn's factory in Zhengzhou, China November 23, 2022 in this still image obtained by REUTERS from a video.
- Apple has a huge problem with an iPhone factory in China
- MEDIA
- Bob Iger poses for photographers at the World premiere of the film “The King’s Man” in London Monday, Dec. 6, 2021.
- Bob Iger lays out his priorities for Disney as he returns as CEO
- Police officers block Wulumuqi street, named for Urumqi in Mandarin, in Shanghai on November 27, 2022, in the area where protests against China’s zero-Covid policy took place the night before following a deadly fire in Urumqi, the capital of the Xinjiang region.
- BBC journalist ‘beaten and kicked by the police’ as protests spread across China
- Video shows British journalist ‘beaten’ and detained in China
- Sam Bankman-Fried, CEO, FTX and Christine Lee, Lead Anchor, CoinDesk
- The Journey to Crypto Normalization, Consensus 2022 by CoinDesk, Austin Convention Center, Austin, Texas, USA – 10 Jun 2022
- How a scoop by a little-known crypto site led to the fall of Sam Bankman-Fried and implosion of FTX
Headlines from right-of-center Newsmax 11.28.2022
- Murphy: Dems Lack Enough Votes to Pass an Assault Weapon Ban
- Biden on Thursday talked about the “scourge” of gun violence, saying that “the idea we still allow semi-automatic weapons to be purchased is sick. Just sick. I’m going to try to get rid of assault weapons.”
- Related Stories
- Emboldened by Recent Mass Shootings, Biden and Dems Push Ban on So-Called Assault Weapons
- Biden to Promote Assault-Rifle Ban During Lame-Duck Session
- Newsmax TV
- Gordon Chang: US May Be Running Out of Time To Defend Taiwan | video
- Mark Morgan: Gov. Abbott Must Remove Migrants | video
- Charles Marino: Mayorkas ‘Should Be Impeached’ | video
- Patrick McEnroe: ‘Mistake’ to Alter Iran Flag During World Cup | video
- Blaine Holt: Winter Is Russia’s Most Effective Weapon in Ukraine | video
- Jerry Carl: Fauci Prime Example of D.C. Bureaucrats | video
- Chatterjee: WH Wants to Skip Straight to Non-Fossil Fuels | video
- Newsfront
- GAO Report: Pentagon Policy Failing Against Russian, Chinese Hackers
- A federal watchdog group has claimed the Pentagon does not have sufficient or effective policies to track and curtail attempted cyberattacks by intelligence arms of Russia, China, and Iran…. [Full Story]
- Kellyanne Conway Meets With Jan. 6 Panel
- Former White House adviser Kellyanne Conway met with the House select [Full Story]
- Disney’s Openly Gay Animated Movie ‘Strange World’ Flops at Box Office
- “Strange World,” the Disney animated feature film that included [Full Story]
- Respect for Marriage Act Hurts Religious Groups
- With the Respect for Marriage Act – which recognizes same-sex [Full Story] | Platinum Article
- Twitter Flooded With ‘Porn’ Bots to Block China Protest Footage
- The Chinese government might be going to great lengths to conceal [Full Story]
- Republicans Gain Followers, Dems Losing on Musk’s Twitter |video
- Ukraine on Edge for More Attacks, West Eyes Humanitarian Aid
- Ukraine prepared for more Russian strikes Monday and warned of the [Full Story]
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- Ukraine Nuclear Chief Sees Sees Signs Russia May Leave Occupied Plant
- Blaine Holt to Newsmax: Winter Is Russia’s Most Effective Weapon in Ukraine War |video
- Kyiv Mayor Punches Back at Ukraine President’s Criticism
- China Protests Highlight Xi’s COVID Policy Dilemma: to Walk It Back or Not
- The rare street protests that erupted in cities across China over the [Full Story]
- West Virginia Governor Takes On Chinese Rare-Earth Monopoly
- Republican West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice announced a development [Full Story] | Platinum Article
- Uvalde Mom Sues Police, Gunmaker in School Massacre
- The last conversation Sandra Torres had with her 10-year-old daughter [Full Story]
- US Soccer Coach Apologizes for Altered Iranian Flag Post
- Gregg Berhalter, coach of the U.S. men’s national soccer [Full Story]
- GOP-Led Arizona County Refuses to Certify Election
- In a special session of the Cochise County Board of Supervisors [Full Story]
- Murphy: Not Enough Votes to Ban Assault Weapons
- Senate Democrats don’t have the 60 votes needed to advance a bill to [Full Story]
- Mike Lindell Says He’ll Run For RNC Chair
- MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell announced Monday he is “100% running” to be [Full Story]
- Over Half of Top Medical Schools Teach Critical Race Theory
- Many of the country’s most prestigious medical programs have [Full Story]
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- Longtime Owner of Miami’s Versailles Dies at 89
- Felipe Valls, Sr., 89, the founder of the Miami’s popularVersailles [Full Story]
- Global News Outlets Call on US to Drop Charges Against Assange
- The New York Times and four European news outlets urged the federal [Full Story]
- CNN Has New Chief White House Correspondent After Staff Shake-Up
- CNN announced a few staff changes on Monday, including promoting Phil [Full Story]
- Houston Issues Boil-Water Notice; Schools Close
- Amandatory boil-water notice was issued in Houston this week after a [Full Story]
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- Minnesota and Michigan are seen as a toss up to jump to the front of [Full Story]
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- Austin Warns Stopgap Funding Will Hurt US Military
- Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin wrote to House and Senate leaders to [Full Story]
- Experimental Vaccine Protects Against All 20 Flu Strains
- An experimental vaccine provided broad protection against all 20 [Full Story]
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- White House on China Unrest: ‘Everyone Has the Right to Peacefully Protest’
- Amid widespread protests in China over the country’s “zero COVID” [Full Story]
- University of Delaware Offers Course to Examine White Privilege
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- Number of Handgun Owners Carrying Daily Doubles
- The number of handgun owners carrying firearms daily has doubled in [Full Story]
- Buffalo Supermarket Shooting Suspect Pleads Guilty to Murder
- An avowed white supremacist pleaded guilty Monday to first-degree [Full Story]
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- Finance
- Jobs to Continue to Abound
- Workers will be spared the agony of mass layoffs this recession go-around, economists and executive recruiters say…. [Full Story]
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- FTC Sues Google for Deceptive Ads Promoting Pixel 4
- Europe’s Inflation Hasn’t Peaked: ECB’s Lagarde
- Apple, Energy Shares Drag Wall St Lower Amid China COVID Protests
- More Finance
- Health
- Skipping Meals Linked to Heart Disease, Premature Death
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- NOTE 1: The 3rd chart above includes the Canadian stock, ECN, which purchased Triad Financial Services, a manufactured home industry lender
- NOTE 2: Drew changed its name and trading symbol at the end of 2016 to Lippert (LCII).
- NOTE 3: Deer Valley was largely taken private, say company insiders in a message to MHProNews on 12.15.2020, but there are still some outstanding shares of the stock from the days when it was a publicly traded firm. Thus, there is still periodic activity on DVLY.
- Note 4: some recent or related reports to the equities named above follow.
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