Mobile and Manufactured Home Living News (MHLivingNews) Readers’ Choice Spring 2024 Top 30 – See What Attracts and Interests Others Looking Into Manufactured Housing!

“You cook, clean, eat, live, and love  much the same in a manufactured home as you would living in one of millions of similar-sized site built houses in the U.S.A.” ^©  MHLivingNews has used variations on that phrasing for years, adding the raft that according to U.S. Census Bureau data, at this time a new HUD Code manufactured home is about half the cost to build as a new conventionally constructed site built house. Those two statements are demonstrably true. In fact, one of the top articles for the Spring 2024 Top 30 on MHLivingNews is a collection of research reports produced by various third parties that routinely demonstrated those statements.

Those facts combined with others found on our site might make some wonder. Then why are manufactured homes underperforming during an affordable housing crisis? That a fair question, as even manufactured home professional Terry Decio said in a video recorded interview that he is tired of being the best kept secret and that he is ready to help house America.

 

 

That Decio quote: “I’m tired of [manufactured housing] being the best kept secret. I’m ready to help house America” ought to be paired with this photo below.

 

 

Four of those men have played a significant role with a major brand in the manufactured home production business. That photo was taken during a break at a Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) meeting.  Stegmayer was a prior MHI chairman. Clayton served for years on the MHI “executive committee,” the top people on their board of directors.

There is no one pithy sentence that can properly explain to a curious mind why manufactured housing is so misunderstood and why it faces so many barriers. This collection of articles that follows represents (after one omission for proprietary reasons) the top 30 articles in the Spring of 2024 on MHLivingNews. This is like a reader’s choice award list because it is readers like you that made the decision on ranking.

Millions of page views occur on MHLivingNews annually, per Webalizer metrics generated from our website’s main server.  This isn’t at this time a listing site, although we have kicked around the notion of making it part of a listing site. This is a site where people like you and hundreds of thousands of other visitors come to learn more about mobile homes, manufactured homes, what those two phrases mean (because they are not interchangeable or the same meaning), and about legal, political, and practical topics that deal with manufactured home living.

With no further adieu, here are the Spring 2024 top 30 articles/reports on MHLivingNews on the last day of April 2024. This list was generated by Webalizer on 30-Apr-2024 07:19 CDT.

 

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Not in the top 30, but among the most read items on the website is this report linked below. It examines and provides the full text as downloads of several research reports on modern manufactured housing. It debunks many of the items that some people errantly believe.

 

 

Similarly, not in the top 30, but among the most popular (in visits) on MHLivingNews are the following.

 

 

Two more bonus articles.

 

 

During an affordable housing crisis, people want to know. Just glancing over that list above, one sees stories about actual manufactured home residents. Articles about legal issues that current and potential manufactured home residents want to know about.  How to or Do It Yourself (DIY) articles. Fact-packed and evidence-based reports on specific companies or personalities in the manufactured home industry.

The following question was put to left-leaning Bing’s artificial intelligence (AI) powered Copilot on 4.30.2024. The blue or “balanced” setting was used. Bing’s AI has been rated by some as the best free AI powered search tool.

What makes Manufactured Home Living News different or special? What is the apparent claim to fame of MHLivingNews.com?

While this isn’t scientific in the sense used by pollsters, this is based on the actual facts provided by Webalizer on this date at the time shown. Because this is accurate, it may be better than a ‘scientific survey’ since these are the topics that hundreds of thousands of visitor-readers want to know more about. What more needs be said for this report today? Our sister site for professionals provides manufactured home “Industry News, Tips, and Views Pros Can Use” ^© where “We Provide, You Decide.” ^{© ##}

MHLivingNews note: we’ve learned a thing or two about Skyline Champion since the video interview below was produced. It should not be construed as an endorsement, but rather as a piece of manufactured housing industry history. People should wonder, why is manufactured housing underperforming during an affordable housing crisis? See several of the reports linked above to answer that pressing question.  Curious minds want to know.  Thinking people want evidence so they can make up their mind based on facts and reliable information. ###

 

 

 

 

 

 

That’s a wrap on this installment of “News through the lens of manufactured homes and factory-built housing” © where “We Provide, You Decide.” © ### (Affordable housing, manufactured homes, reports, fact-checks, analysis, and commentary. Third-party images or content are provided under fair use guidelines for media.) (See Related Reports, further below. Text/image boxes often are hot-linked to other reports that can be access by clicking on them.)

By L.A. “Tony” Kovach – for MHLivingNews.com.

Tony earned a journalism scholarship and earned numerous awards in history and in manufactured housing. For example, he earned the prestigious Lottinville Award in history from the University of Oklahoma, where he studied history and business management. He’s a managing member and co-founder of LifeStyle Factory Homes, LLC, the parent company to MHProNews, and MHLivingNews.com. This article reflects the LLC’s and/or the writer’s position, and may or may not reflect the views of sponsors or supporters.

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