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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

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

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.

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

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