FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: MHARR
(202) 783-4087
PRODUCTION DECLINE CONTINUES IN THE FACE
OF UNRESOLVED INDUSTRY BOTTLENECKS
Washington, D.C., April 6, 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 continued to decline in February 2026. Just-released statistics indicate that HUD Code manufacturers produced 7,689 new homes in February 2026, an 8.1% decrease from the 8,368 new HUD Code homes produced in February 2025. Cumulative industry production for 2026 now totals 15,106 new HUD Code homes, as compared with 17,246 over the same period in 2025, a year-over-year decline of 12.4%.
A further analysis of the official industry statistics shows that the top ten shipment states from January 2023 — with monthly, cumulative, current reporting year (2026) and prior year (2025) shipments per category as indicated — are:
| Rank | State | Current Month (Aug 2025) | Cumulative of Top 10 since Jan 2023 | 2026 | 2025 |
| 1 | Texas | 1399 | 53547 | 2653 | 2995 |
| 2 | Florida | 555 | 22669 | 1121 | 1097 |
| 3 | North Carolina | 514 | 19157 | 966 | 1067 |
| 4 | Alabama | 389 | 17267 | 713 | 929 |
| 5 | South Carolina | 392 | 15509 | 803 | 928 |
| 6 | Louisiana | 276 | 14440 | 601 | 856 |
| 7 | Georgia | 445 | 14130 | 847 | 843 |
| 8 | Mississippi | 343 | 11560 | 681 | 709 |
| 9 | Kentucky | 352 | 11580 | 648 | 656 |
| 10 | Tennessee | 286 | 11458 | 590 | 732 |
The February 2026 statistics result in no changes to the cumulative top-ten shipment states list.
As MHARR continues to emphasize, industry manufacturers have the inherent capacity to increase the production of new HUD Code manufactured homes well beyond current levels. Production, however, continues to be needlessly suppressed by the combined effects of discriminatory zoning exclusion and the discriminatory absence of federal support (via Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac) for the manufactured home consumer chattel loans which comprise approximately 70% of the manufactured home consumer financing market.
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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