Writer Carly Berlin produced a report through a partnership between VTDigger and Vermont Public dated 7.15.2023 on the subject of “‘Not Going to Live Here Again’ – Vermont Manufactured-Home Residents Return to Destruction.” Left-leaning CNN reported on July 12, 2023 that: “Catastrophic flooding swamped Vermont’s capital as intense storms forced evacuations and closures in Northeast. Intense rainstorms that inundated the Northeast …

The following are remarks as prepared for a federal agency who is once more thoughtfully offering this writer for Mobile and Manufactured Home Living News and ManufacturedHomeProNews.com an opportunity to present to federal, corporate, and nonprofit officials. While these are considered expert ‘views’ or ‘opinions,’ the remarks are all documented with evidence that supports the various statements.   Were Abe …

The American Dream is more than homeownership, but that is part of the thirst for Independence from rent and other chains that can bind. For your inspiration, enlightenment, and enjoyment here is an article made available to MHLivingNews by the WND News Center, plus music videos, some lyrics and more bonus items in Part II that include the insightful “Baby …

Preface – National Mortgage Professional (NMP) cited the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) for “updates [to] its 2023 ‘housing affordability pyramid. ‘ According to the NAHB, 64.8 million households (48.9%) nationwide are unable to afford a $250,000 home. It said 39 million U.S. households have insufficient income to afford a $150,000 home.” NMP March 6, 2023 post shared the …

Stating the obvious can be eye opening. Truth can be discovered wherever a person happens to find it. Some research provides useful information and couples it with sound analysis or commentary. By contrast, some reports may provide useful information but couple it with flawed or agenda driven analysis.  As Mobile and Manufactured Home Living News (ManufacturedHomeLivingNews.com or MHLivingNews.com) has reported …

June is national home ownership month. According to a wide range of sources, the U.S. is in an affordable housing crisis. With Biden era inflation at multiple decade high levels, interest rates on conventional housing mortgage loans have more than doubled in the past two years. A lack of affordability is an obvious issue for all kinds of housing, conventionally …

The death of billionaire Samuel “Sam” Zell has and will spark an array of commentaries, among them this from the Associated Press (AP) which quoted Zell as follows. “I’m a professional opportunist,” Zell told AP at the time. “I’m pretty sure that no matter what topic you pick, we’re involved in some way or another.” That absolutely holds true for …

In manufactured housing, and other industries, a variety of circumstances can lead to a desire or need for a job or career change. A move, downsizing at a company, or festering frustration at a current company can be factors that contribute to a search for a new job. In a new story by CNBC picked up by MSN, reporter Gili …

Law Professor Fran Quigley says that his Substack newsletter “is the product of frustration.” A 3.15.2023 post about Quigley on the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law website says he recently presented at “Manchester University on Housing as a Human Right.” It said in part that “Quigley, who directs the Health and Human Rights Clinic at IU McKinney, …

It is important to note as a preface to this shocking report that there are scores of honorable companies that operate in the manufactured housing industry. For that reason, this fact- and evidence-supported MHLivingNews editorial report ought to be disturbing to honorable manufactured home professionals, to current and prospective manufactured home buyers, residents, and customers seeking the affordable quality lifestyle …

Regional news reported the $500 million (half-a-billion) dollar offer by an unnamed developer to purchase the Briny Breezes resident owned community. Briny Breezes, Inc. is an oceanfront and intercoastal waterway facing development featuring pre-HUD Code mobile homes and some manufactured homes located near Boyton Beach, FL. South of West Palm Beach and north of Delray Beach, Gulf Stream, and Boca …

Mobile and Manufactured Home Living News (MHLivingNews) recently reported on the statement from pro-manufactured home Senator Tim Scott (SC-R). Scott’s letter to DOE and our MHLivingNews analysis and commentary are linked here. Manufactured homes have been mandated by law to have money saving energy saving standards since June 15, 1976.   From the Regulations.gov website the Department of Energy (DOE) …

The letter by Ranking Member Tim Scott (SC-R) on manufactured housing obtained by Mobile and Manufactured Home Living News (MHLivingNews) is not found on the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) website on the date and time shown. But it is found on the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affair webpage in the press release shown below and found …

“Getting Zoning for Manufactured Housing Right” is a working paper published by the Lincoln Institute for Land Policy authored by Daniel R. Mandelker. The Lincoln Institute says the following about Mandelker. “Daniel R. Mandelker is the Howard A. Stamper Professor of Law Emeritus at Wash U Law and is one of the nation’s leading scholars and teachers on land use …

Perhaps the very best friend in my elementary school days in Norman, OK was Doug Humphrey. We both liked a variety of board games, and we were competitive in a friendly way. Doug was of Native American descent. As young kids sometimes do, we created a jingle – a kind of a team ‘fight’ song – for cheering on his …