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TO:                 MHARR MANUFACTURERS FROM:           MHARR RE:                 LATEST UPDATE ON SMALL BUSINESS COVID-19 RELIEF MEASURES MHARR was invited to participate in a March 26, 2020 conference call with Ms. Jovita Carranza, Administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), regarding federal-level relief programs for small businesses affected by the current COVID-19 emergency and related economic dislocation. …

MHARR Provides Latest Update on Small Business COVID19 Relief Measures Read More »

Washington, D.C., March 3, 2020 – 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 home production started the New Year with strong year-over-year growth in January 2020. Just-released statistics indicate that HUD Code …

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The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R) has published notice in the Federal Register of an impending study designed to identify and assess local barriers to the siting and utilization of HUD Code manufactured homes. Such a study was specifically proposed and requested by MHARR in …

HUD Undertakes Study Proposed by MHARR Read More »

February 5, 2020 VIA FEDERAL EXPRESSHon. Dan BrouiletteSecretary U.S. Department of Energy1000 Independence Avenue, S.W.Washington, D.C. 20585                                     Re: Manufactured Housing Energy Regulation Dear Secretary Brouilette: We are dismayed and shocked to have learned recently that the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has entered into a consent decree in litigation styled Sierra Club v. Perry (D.D.C. …

MHARR Expresses Dismay Over Energy Case – Warning and FOIA Follow Read More »

President Trump’s proposed Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 budget for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) would once again increase funding for the federal manufactured housing program — with the bulk of the increase going to program contractors – notwithstanding lower production levels in 2019. In the White House budget blueprint and related …

HUD Proposed FY 2021 Manufactured Housing Budget Increases Overall Program Spending Read More »

copies attached for your review and information is a pre-publication copy of a proposed rule by HUD to implement the so-called “third” set of standards recommendations put forward by the Manufactured Housing Consensus Committee (MHCC). The release of this proposed rule was expected, having been pending, in most respects, for several years, and having been …

HUD to Post Two Manufactured Home Regulatory Actions Read More »