Objective research is an obvious way to establish the truth about a subject, including modern manufactured housing. There are numerous impressions which are good, bad, or meh about the manufactured home industry that are the result of incomplete information or at times arguably agenda-driven actions and claims. Mobile and Manufactured Home Living News (MHLivingNews.com) was launched over a decade ago. …
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Ultimate Reporters, Researchers, Affordable Housing Advocates, or Shoppers 3’rd Party Research Reports on Mobile Homes, Manufactured Homes, and Modular Housing
Foreward. Susan M. Wachter, writing as Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Research for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) said, “Most new homes in the United States are site-built to State and local codes, but an increasing number are “manufactured homes,” designed and constructed to meet the requirements of the preemptive Federal Manufactured Home Construction and …
Read More »The Right Stuff and the Wrong Stuff: How Does So Much Important News, Views, and Insights Fail to be Routinely Reported by Many in Media? Research and Lack of Affordable Housing Unpacked-FEA
“The U.S. has a housing shortage from years of underbuilding, leading to increasingly unaffordable housing costs. While overall housing construction has not kept up with demand, entry-level or “starter” homes for first-time homebuyers are in especially short supply. Factory-built housing, which includes various construction techniques and products, could help fill the supply gap. However, increasing the supply of factory-built housing would …
Read More »Donald H. Layton for Furman Center: ‘Manufactured Housing is a Good Source for Unsubsidized Affordable Housing’–‘Key Facts and Surprising Economic’ Research plus MHVille Facts-Evidence-Analysis
Neither Donald H. Layton, nor anyone other typical human that this writer has met or heard about, is able to see into the future with total clarity or certainty. That is to say that Layton’s first installment of a research article for the Furman Center, shared in Part I and unpacked with added facts, evidence, and analysis in Part II, …
Read More »Manufactured Homes Appreciation Research Reveals Decades of Evidence Mobile and Manufactured Homes Can Gain Value Similar to and Sometimes Faster than Conventional Housing and for Similar Reasons
Mobile and Manufactured Home Living News has been reporting for over a decade that third-party research reflects the fact that modern manufactured homes can and do gain value, and for similar reasons, as conventional site-built housing. More recent research by LendingTree and other sources, such as the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), is linked below. But the purpose of this …
Read More »Ranking of Manufactured Homes and Mobile Homes as Percentage of All Housing Units in all 50 States, Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico plus More Manufactured Housing Research-Facts
The following is from the U.S. Census Bureau. Explanation of the symbols and other details are found below the table ranking each state and jurisdiction shown by the percentage of housing units that are manufactured or mobile homes (Part I). Note that while the table below this infographic does not make a distinction between what percentage of housing units were …
Read More »Home Ownership Top Issue for Young People – Conventional Housing Challenges and Manufactured Home Option – Research Evidence and the Journey Home Roadmap for Affordable Housing Seekers
From the WND News Center to MHLivingNews is the following Part I item on the headline topic. The manufactured home aspect of this article is found in Part II. Part I Homeownership costs exploding since pandemic as inflation drags on Soaring insurance premiums and rising utility prices also to blame By Around the Web Published June 12, 2024 at 10:59am By …
Read More »June is National Homeownership Month – Affordable Housing, Manufactured Home Research, and 2023 U.S. Housing Crisis Insights
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 …
Read More »CPO Chase McGee-Clayton Homes Chief People Officer-Scanlan Recruiting says Clayton Culture ‘Legendary’ – Editorial Eyes Ultimate Clayton Homes Resource for Biggest Manufactured Housing Builder
Hunt Scanlon Media said on 11.11.2022 that: “The Christopher Group recently recruited Case McGee as chief people officer [CPO] of Clayton Homes Building Group (CHGB), the largest builder of manufactured housing and modular homes in the U.S. and a Berkshire Hathaway company. “This was one of the more difficult and rewarding searches that we have completed in recent memory,” said …
Read More »Affordable Housing, Conventional Housing, Mobile Home, Manufactured Home, and Modular Housing Conundrum – What U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Research Revealed
“The first step in solving a problem is to recognize that it [the problem] does exist.” Zig Ziglar, per Brainy Quote. When it comes to the affordable housing crisis, over thirteen months ago a seminal report was published on the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Policy Development and Research (PD&R) website. Mainstream media largely missed it, yet …
Read More »Which Is It? Is it a Mobile Home or a Manufactured Home? Visual Guidance Planned by AP Stylebook for Reporters/Journalists Useful to General Public, Public Officials, and Researchers
“The Associated Press Stylebook provides an A-Z guide to issues such as capitalization, abbreviation, punctuation, spelling, numerals and many other questions,” says Perdue University about the AP Stylebook. Wikipedia says: “The AP Stylebook, also known by its full name The Associated Press Stylebook and Briefing on Media Law, is an American English grammar style and usage guide created by American journalists …
Read More »“Why We Fight Manifesto” – Decades Manufactured Housing Research Studies – Federal, University, Nonprofits, Others – Facts & Data, Problems w/Solutions for Affordable Housing and Modern Manufactured Homes
Manufactured homes are the most proven form of affordable housing in America today, period. Nothing else comes close. That is not an empty or boastful claim. Rather, that statement is based on decades of well-documented facts and evidence. There are numerous research studies, mostly from third parties to manufactured home interests, that document that some 22 million Americans live in …
Read More »Why So Few Affordable U.S. Homes? Federal & Other Research – Monopolies, Moats, Manufactured Housing – Impacts Renters, Current Manufactured Homeowners, Conventional Homeowners, Most Americans
When someone wants to understand the lack of affordable housing in the U.S., by reading published studies from a range of sources, a few common facts emerge. The underlying causes of the affordable housing crisis observed by experts and partisans are often similar regardless of which of the two major political parties they may favor. For example, Zoning is a …
Read More »Updated Mobile Homes, Manufactured Homes, Conventional Housing Comparisons, Data, and Infographics 2021 – Third-Party Researched Facts – From Trailers to Affordable Modern Manufactured Housing
The infographic below is the most comprehensive snapshot about modern manufactured homes and its evolution from trailer houses, into mobile homes, into manufactured homes found online today. The infographic image provides fact- and evidence-based snapshot with sources cited of manufactured housing on 6.23.2021. That image can be viewed in a larger size in many browsers, see the instructions below the …
Read More »Pre-Buffett NIMBY and BANANA Revelations – Not in My Back Yard —Removing Barriers to Affordable Housing – HUD Research Included Manufactured Homes – Tents vs Manufactured Housing?
Prejudice and ignorance are not bliss. Bias against affordable housing and/or manufactured homes are costly to most of society, save a few well-connected elites. In fairness, over a decade before the self-described “atheist” dark lord of Omaha entered the manufactured home industry, Americans were understandably complaining about a lack of affordable housing. Part of the problem was and remains NIMBY …
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