Continuing Manufactured Home Production Decline Reflects Failure to Address and Correct Deepening Systemic Problems
Washington, D.C., May 3, 2023 – The Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) reports that according to official statistics compiled on behalf of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), HUD Code manufactured housing industry year-over-year production has declined again in March 2023. Just-released statistics indicate that HUD Code manufacturers produced 7,646 homes in March 2023, a 32.2 % decline from the 11,279 new HUD Code homes produced in March 2022. Cumulative production for 2023 is now 21,174 homes, a 28.6% decrease from the 29,670 homes produced over the same period during 2022.
A further analysis of the official industry statistics shows that the top ten shipment states from January 2023 — with monthly, cumulative, current year (2023) and prior year (2022) shipments per category as indicated — are:
The production statistics for March 2023 yield one change in the new cumulative index, moving Louisiana into 9th place and Arizona into 10th place on the top-ten shipment list.
At the same time, the March 2023 statistics now show two consecutive quarters of industry production declines, beginning in October 2022. Even worse, these production declines have become steeper every month as the longer-term decline has continued, now reaching a monthly year-over-year decrease in excess of 30%. Again, as MHARR has previously stressed, all of this is occurring at a time of unprecedented demand for affordable housing, thus illustrating once again, not only the long-term destructive impacts of discriminatory zoning and consumer financing on the HUD Code manufactured housing market, but also the failure of federal affordable housing aid and assistance to “reach the ground” for manufactured housing consumers, as illustrated by MHARR’s July 2022 White Paper on that subject. Therefore, decisive industry action to address and resolve these crucial post-production matters (i.e., zoning and consumer financing discrimination) in the nation’s capital is long overdue and a clear indication that the post-production sector’s national representation may not be up to that task.
The Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform is a Washington, D.C.-
based national trade association representing the views and interests of independent producers of federally-regulated manufactured housing.
Washington, D.C., May 3, 2023 – The Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) reports that according to official statistics compiled on behalf of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), HUD Code manufactured housing industry year-over-year production has declined again in March 2023. Just-released statistics indicate that HUD Code manufacturers produced 7,646 homes in March 2023, a 32.2 % decline from the 11,279 new HUD Code homes produced in March 2022. Cumulative production for 2023 is now 21,174 homes, a 28.6% decrease from the 29,670 homes produced over the same period during 2022.
A further analysis of the official industry statistics shows that the top ten shipment states from January 2023 — with monthly, cumulative, current year (2023) and prior year (2022) shipments per category as indicated — are:
The production statistics for March 2023 yield one change in the new cumulative index, moving Louisiana into 9th place and Arizona into 10th place on the top-ten shipment list.
At the same time, the March 2023 statistics now show two consecutive quarters of industry production declines, beginning in October 2022. Even worse, these production declines have become steeper every month as the longer-term decline has continued, now reaching a monthly year-over-year decrease in excess of 30%. Again, as MHARR has previously stressed, all of this is occurring at a time of unprecedented demand for affordable housing, thus illustrating once again, not only the long-term destructive impacts of discriminatory zoning and consumer financing on the HUD Code manufactured housing market, but also the failure of federal affordable housing aid and assistance to “reach the ground” for manufactured housing consumers, as illustrated by MHARR’s July 2022 White Paper on that subject. Therefore, decisive industry action to address and resolve these crucial post-production matters (i.e., zoning and consumer financing discrimination) in the nation’s capital is long overdue and a clear indication that the post-production sector’s national representation may not be up to that task.
The Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform is a Washington, D.C.-
based national trade association representing the views and interests of independent producers of federally-regulated manufactured housing.
