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HUD CODE PRODUCTION DECLINES IN 2025 AS POST-PRODUCTION BOTTLENECKS CONTINUE TO SUPPRESS INDUSTRY
Washington, D.C., February 3, 2026 – 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 declined once again in December 2025, as well as cumulatively for the entire year. Just-released statistics indicate that HUD Code manufacturers produced 6,800 new homes in December 2025, a 3.9% decrease from the 7,078 new HUD Code homes produced in December 2024. Cumulative production for 2025 thus totals 102,738 new HUD Code homes, as compared with 103,314 new HUD Code homes in 2024, a .55% decrease.
A further analysis of the official industry statistics shows that the top ten shipment states from January 2023 — with monthly, cumulative, current reporting year (2025) and prior year (2024) shipments per category as indicated — are:
| Rank | State | Current Month (August 2025) | Cumulative | 2025 | 2024 |
| 1 | Texas | 1,225 | 50,894 | 17,458 | 18,343 |
| 2 | Florida | 517 | 21,578 | 6,804 | 7,409 |
| 3 | North Carolina | 399 | 18,191 | 6,269 | 6,768 |
| 4 | Alabama | 376 | 16,554 | 5,313 | 5,744 |
| 5 | South Carolina | 405 | 14,706 | 5,232 | 5,732 |
| 6 | Louisiana | 302 | 13,839 | 4,607 | 5,302 |
| 7 | Georgia | 332 | 13,283 | 4,807 | 4,601 |
| 8 | Kentucky | 287 | 10,912 | 3,800 | 4,118 |
| 9 | Mississippi | 280 | 10,899 | 3,994 | 3,929 |
| 10 | Tennessee | 241 | 10,868 | 3,829 | 4,120 |
The December 2025 statistics move Kentucky and Mississippi into 8th and 9th place respectively, on the cumulative top-ten shipment states list, while Tennessee moves into 10th place.
The 2025 decline in annual industry production, falling short of even the modest levels achieved in 2024 while an unprecedented shortage of affordable housing persists across the nation, is a direct function of the failure of the broader industry – and particularly its national post-production sector representation, i.e., the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) – to resolve, or even seriously address the two principal post-production policy-level bottlenecks that have suppressed industry production over the past twenty years. Thus, while MHI has spent the past year pursuing legislation that would acknowledge technical and engineering reality by eliminating the antiquated “permanent chassis” requirement in current federal law, no pending bill (and/or other action) would correct, resolve or even address the exclusionary zoning and chattel consumer financing bottlenecks (under the Duty to Serve mandate) that have needlessly stifled the growth and expansion of the industry on a national basis.
Meanwhile, a bill filed by Rep. Erin Houchin, which, in its original form, would have definitively corrected another separate and costly potential bottleneck – i.e., the threat of excessive and excessively costly manufactured housing “energy” regulation by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) – was mysteriously watered-down prior to passage in the House of Representatives and, as amended, would needlessly preserve a role for DOE ideologues in the formulation of new/amended manufactured housing energy standards.
These continuing unforced failures and retreats, in a year with an Executive Branch that is specifically seeking to undo and relax unnecessary and unnecessarily burdensome regulation, and a Congress controlled by the same party as the executive – and, even more importantly, not even appearing to try to resolve these major bottlenecks – is inexcusable and should be the basis for a thorough re-evaluation of all aspects of the industry’s national representation. In the face of an unprecedented specific national need for affordable housing and homeownership – the greatest strength and asset of mainstream HUD Code manufactured housing — how long can the industry continue to tolerate baseless restrictions and limitations that have resulted in two decades of production numbers that have varied between lackluster and lethal? The industry can – and must – do better.
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.
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