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 …

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 …

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 …

“The linkage between large-scale federal deficit spending, the national debt (which recently crossed the $40 trillion threshold), higher borrowing costs, elevated interest rates, and reduced housing affordability is economically well-supported and highly relevant to the broader U.S. affordable-housing discussion. Economist E.J. Antoni’s August 21, 2026 Daily Signal article correctly highlights that the debt is not an abstract accounting issue—it already …

According to the report linked here: “The study found that roughly 78% of home shoppers visit 3 or more websites before taking an online action like scheduling a tour or making an inquiry.” That same source said: “estimates that conventional buyers typically visit between 3 to 6 different websites or apps before completing a transaction” and “The most definitive and widely …

When this human writer for MHLivingNews and MHProNews and my colleagues launched this platform, there was at that time nothing else quite like it in the manufactured housing industry. Frankly, that there was nothing quite like what we had in mind doing should have been a wakeup call to yours truly. How could it be that a multiple billion-dollar industry …

Quoting from Part I: “policy choices—not scarcity—drive unaffordability.” “This systemic deceleration [i.e.: the slowing of construction] directly mirrors the collapse of the middle class and the vanishing of affordable housing options,” quote is from Part II below. In the early 1930s, the 102-story Empire State Building was constructed in about 410 days. The Pentagon, which was reportedly the largest low-rise …

‘Heads, they win. Tails, you lose.’ This article will use historic and contemporary facts and insights to shed light on some of the dirty secrets about the affordable housing crisis. Per Gemini in #7: “Evidence suggests that the “deliverables” in the housing market have dropped not because of a lack of technology, but because of systemic administrative friction.” First the …

“While MHI claims to support growth, CEO Lesli Gooch’s recent Maine testimony—which disparaged the resident-owned community (ROC) model—is cited as a specific example of MHI working to protect existing land-lease monopolies rather than expanding the industry through the legal tools available.” So said left-leaning Google’s artificial intelligence powered Gemini in response to evidence supplied to it that included the testimony …

Over a decade of reading and studying official documents, governmental, association, publicly traded company earnings call transcripts along with their investor presentations, nonprofit, mainstream and trade media research and reporting can pay off. Combine those insights with the potential power of properly using third-party artificial intelligence to check and cross-check the known evidence can yield investigative insights not found anywhere …

The ROAD to Housing Act’s inclusion in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) bypassed normal Congressional scrutiny and public debate. The arguably problematic and seemingly corrupt Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) has publicly pushed this bill without any public calls for amendment, as multiple artificial intelligence (AI) systems have confirmed. As left-leaning MS Bing’s AI powered Copilot said: “MHI’s failure to …

The manufactured housing industry’s role, potential, and performance in the battle for more affordable housing are explored in this exclusive report. A human expert on this topic ‘tests’ ChatGPT’s ‘understanding’ of the affordable housing crisis (see Part I). The questions are asked by MHLivingNews and the bulk of the Q&As (chat, discussion, input-inquiries, etc.) are by the AI systems as …

“In this life there are lots of laws and flaws.” – Soheyla Kovach. It is an interesting insight from a woman who is the co-founder of MHProNews and MHLivingNews. She hails from a society that is ancient and steeped in a rich cultural heritage where one liner maxims are used to convey axiomatic insights. Not just in the U.S., but …

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 …

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 …