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Videos by NFIB Reflect Desire by Small Business Owners for Antitrust – or anti-Monopoly – Action and Why it Matters to Manufactured Home Community Residents and New Manufactured Homes Shoppers

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MHLivingNews has long backed the notion that consumers are routinely better off doing business with smaller businesses that tend to be more responsive to their needs than large firms that often feel empowered to ignore their clients’ best interests. On 11.30.2022, just days ago, the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) released a statement with videos that urged action on …

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‘Monopolies Inflict Harm in Many Ways’ ‘Merger Guidelines are a Free Pass’ – Historic Lessons in ‘Sabotaging Monopoly’ Economics in DoJ/FTC Guidelines by Prof James A Schmitz Jr, Sr Economist

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Professor James A. Schmitz Jr.’s formal comments letter to the Department of Justice (DoJ) include the following observations: “monopolies inflict harm in many ways. These include: A. Monopolies sabotage and destroy markets. They typically destroy substitutes for their products, often those that would be purchased by low-income households; B. Monopolies also use their weapons to manipulate and sabotage public institutions …

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Warren Buffett, Kevin Clayton “Moat”-Doug Ryan “Time to End Monopoly over Manufactured Housing”–MHI, Clayton Homes, Skyline Champion, Cavco Industries “Conspiracy to Restrain Trade”-Facts + Analysis

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Language, markets, and more can be subject to manipulation. There are as a matter of law (federal/state) crimes known as conspiracies. A conspiracy is generally when 2 or more parties enter into an overt act to do something which the law forbids.  When a plot to break a law is actually performed, and an arrest is made, the defendants may …

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Manufactured Home Community (a.k.a. ‘Mobile Home Park’) Residents Pressured by Purported ‘Predators’; Who’s Behind Crisis—Who Profits from Status Quo and What Can Be Done Legally? MHVille FEA

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Millions of Americans rely on manufactured home communities (MHCs) — sometimes called “mobile home parks”—as one of the few proven paths to affordable housing. But across the country, residents of such land-lease communities operated by specific firms that may be members of the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) or that follow the ‘teachings’ of Mobile Home University (MHU) are under mounting …

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Affordable Housing, Manufactured Homes and the Rigged System: What Every American Should Know and Why Truth-Seeking Hybrid Journalism Matters; Eye-Opening MHVille Facts-Evidence-Analysis (FEA)

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During a well documented affordable housing crisis, the manufactured home industry is demonstrably underperforming as measured by historic and U.S. population growth standards. There are several possible explanations. Among them? There are sadly tens of thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands of thousands of residents in older mobile home parks or newer manufactured home communities that are living in a property …

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Artificial Intelligence with Human Expert is Hybrid Journalism-U.S. Affordable Housing Crisis Often Misunderstood. To Clarify Issues Human Expertise and AI Boosted Fact Checks of MHI and MHARR

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“This article synthesizes the key points from the provided sources, verifies claims where possible, and highlights the advocacy gaps between MHARR and MHI. It incorporates external references to corroborate data and notes the absence of contradictory evidence on key claims, while acknowledging the complexity of regulatory processes. The content is structured to inform readers about the manufactured housing industry’s challenges …

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Consumer Alerts! Gemini on ‘Are Warren Buffett Style Moats Harming Affordable Housing Seekers and some Community Residents?’ Clayton-21st-Champion (SKY)-Cavco (CVCO) MHI Linked Community Owners

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This article for MHLivingNews is based upon the interaction with Google’s artificial intelligence (AI) powered Gemini found in the deeper dive report at this link here plus the document found here. That linked document is the record of the ‘chat’ or conversation between this primary writer and co-founder of MHLivingNews and MHProNews and the vast information resources available to a …

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Fannie Mae Research Reveals ‘What’s Driving the Increasing Importance Consumers Place on Their Homes’ – What that Research Could Mean for Affordable Housing and Manufactured Home Seekers-Residents

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In an email to MHLivingNews on 3.10.2025 Fannie Mae’s Economic and Strategic Research (ESR) team provided the following information provided in Part I. Additional insights will follow in  the facts-evidence-analysis portion of this report provided in Part II.     Part I per Fannie Mae to MHLivingNews is the following. What’s Driving the Increasing Importance Consumers Place on Their Homes …

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Latest Average Manufactured Home Cost Nationally and By Region Per Census Bureau; plus Shocking Waste per GAO of Federal Agencies Could Have Put Every Homeless Person in U.S. in Own Home

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“Improper payments are a long-standing and significant problem in the federal government. Since fiscal year 2003, executive branch agencies (agencies) have reported cumulative improper payment estimates of about $2.8 trillion, including $161.5 billion for fiscal year 2024,” said the Government Accountability Office (GAO) in a report dated 1.23.2025 that is linked here. According to the most recent data from the …

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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

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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, …

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Homeownership Rates in Europe-Other Parts of the World Compared to United States Homeownership Rate-Eye Opening Facts with Analysis and Critical MHVille Insights for Affordable Housing Advocates

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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (RI-D) and Cavco Industries (CVCO) are two of several sources that stated that the lack of affordable housing near where it is needed in the United States cost the American economy some $2 trillion dollars annually. The U.S. produces less housing every year than it needs. That shortage of affordable housing, per economic experts and others, is …

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‘They’ve Got You By the B-lls’ ‘The Game is Rigged’ G Carlin-Others on Loss of American Dream ‘They Don’t Want Well Informed-Well Educated People Capable of Critical Thinking’ (R-Rated Lingo)

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“Now, this ain’t just ranting and raving. This ain’t just blowing off steam. I got a little evidence to support my claim.” “But there’s a reason. There’s a reason. There’s a reason for this, there’s a reason education sucks, and it’s the same reason that it will never, ever, ever be fixed. It’s never gonna get any better. Don’t look …

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‘Taking From People That Can’t Afford It’ Dylan Olson tells Reporters 100s of Manufactured Home Community Residents ‘Fighting Back’ Against RHP Properties ‘Disputed’ 30 Percent Site Rent Hike

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‘Residents at Portside at the Beaches, a manufactured home community owned by RHP Properties, are fighting against a lot rent increase,’ says News 4 Jax in Jacksonville, FL. Residents at a RHP Properties location called Portside at the Beaches were hit with a drastic lot rent increase in June 2024. Dylan Olson and others will reportedly have their site rent …

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Edward Hussey-‘To be Clear, Madam Chairwoman, There is Nothing Wrong with the 2000 Law. The Manufactured Housing Improvement Act Doesn’t Need to be Amended. The Issue is Implementation by HUD’

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During an affordable housing crisis, the best known, most proven solution to that troubling challenge for millions requires no federal subsidies or new legislation – HUD Code manufactured homes – oddly remains thwarted. Those apparently artificial obstacles exist despite often supportive federal laws. As part of our periodic series of reports with analysis to better understand the issues involved, the …

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Manufactured Home Production Growth Continues in February 2024, per April 2024 Report by Manufactured Housing Association – Official Facts with Expert Analysis

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According to data provided by the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR), is the following new manufactured home production and shipment data news brief. The information was released on 4.3.2024 and covers production for February 2024, based on statistics collected for the federal government.   FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                                                    Contact: MHARR (202) 783-4087   PRODUCTION GROWTH CONTINUES IN FEBRUARY …

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