Blog Posting # 821; Copyright 29 November 2024. EducateMHC
Know this! HUD-Code manufactured housing (‘MH’) is federally-regulated, performance-based, affordable-attainable, factory-built housing (a.k.a. another type of offsite construction). And land lease communities (a.k.a. manufactured home communities & ‘mobile home parks’), comprise the commercial real estate (‘CRE’) component of MH! EducateMHC is the online advocate, official historian, trade term & trend tracker, as well as information resource for both business models, and to a lesser extent, the recreational vehicle (‘RV’) industry. Access EducateMHC via (317) 881-3815; email gfa7156@aol.com, and via www.educatemhc.com to purchase Community Management in the Manufactured Housing Industry and SWAN SONG,- a history of land lease communities & official record of annual MH production totals since 1955. Also my autobiography, From SmityAlpha6 to MHMaven, describes personal combat adventures in Vietnam as a USMC lieutenant, a 45 year entrepreneur business career in MH & community ownership, as well as freelance consulting, and authoring many nonfiction texts.
George Allen is the sole emeritus member of the Manufactured Housing Institute (‘MHI’), a founding member of MHI’s National Communities Council (‘NN’) division, an RV/MH Hall of Fame enshrinee, MHInsider magazine’s ‘Allen Legacy’ columnist and editor at large. He’s a Vietnam combat veteran, retired lieutenant colonel of U.S. Marines, author/editor of 30 books and chapbooks on MH, communities, business management, prayer, and figures of speech.
Important Announcement for Green Blazer Wearers
Huh? Green blazer wearers? That’s right. More than 600 RV/MH Hall of Fame members (a.k.a. enshrinees & inductees) characteristically wear a bright green awards blazer (sports jacket) featuring the distinctive gold thread embroidered RV/MH Hall of Fame crest on the left breast pocket. Until recently, these blazers were rarely seen other than at annual hall of fame induction banquets during early August, in Elkhart, IN.
However, this year (2025) starts off differently! A national call, beginning with this blog posting and announcements in other MH trade publications, is going out now, asking RV/MH Hall of Fame members, enshrinees and inductees to wear their coveted green blazer the first day of the Louisville MH Show, and during that evening’s festivities, on 15 January 2025.
This is not all that unusual a request. For the past couple years, some state associations have encouraged their members to wear the celebrated blazer at local formal MH business and social functions, as a way of promoting the RV/MH Hall of Fame as showcase and protector of manufactured housing and recreational vehicle history and legacies. To learn more about the RV/MH Hall of Fame, and how to qualify for induction into this prestigious body, visit their website at www.rvmhhalloffame.org
Looking for Presidential Elections Votes
It all started with this inquiring quote from the 11/24/24 issue (p.35) of The New York Times magazine: “Tell me how Joe Biden could get 81 million votes” (in the 2020 election). The 2024 presidential election had been over for two weeks, and this – to me anyway – came across as what one might call a ‘pregnant question’, one looking for maybe a clarifying answer. So I started looking….
First stop. Research the popular vote spreads of both (2020 & 2024) presidential elections. Well, here’s what I found:
In 2020, Biden won with 81,268,967 popular votes to Trump’s 74, 216,747 votes
In 2024, Trump won with 76,842,136 popular votes to Harris’s 74,341,051 votes
Since the losers in both elections are separated by only 124,304 votes, how does one explain the large 4,426,831 vote spread between the winners of those two elections, especially when the 2024 election is widely touted as being a landslide victory, with the victor’s party now in control of all three branches of the federal government.
It’s hard to believe 4,426,831 American voters who participated in the 2020 election did not also vote in the 2024 contest.
All of which takes us back to that pregnant question in The New York Times magazine: “Tell me how Joe Biden could get 81 million votes.” The answer to that question continues to linger.