MHARR – ISSUES AND PERSPECTIVES By Mark Weiss AUGUST 2025 “MORE RED FLAGS FOR THE INDUSTRY AND CONSUMERS IN THE SECOND TRUMP ADMINISTRATION” In the January 2025 “MHARR Issues and Perspectives” article, entitled “Trump 2.0 – The Industry’s Second Chance,” MHARR stressed that the industry (i.e., the broader industry, represented by the Manufactured […]
MHARR – ISSUES AND PERSPECTIVES By Mark Weiss MARCH 2025 “THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY” As 2025 begins, the production outlook for the HUD Code manufactured housing industry remains essentially static. While the nation continues to experience an unprecedented shortfall in the availability of affordable housing and homeownership, with a deficit
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“TRUMP 2.0 – THE INDUSTRY’S SECOND CHANCE” MHARR – ISSUES and PERSPECTIVES By Mark Weiss | JANUARY 2025 Life does not always offer second chances. When it does, those fortunate enough to have that opportunity had better make the best of it. Failure, as the saying goes, is not an option. Such is the case
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Updated May 1, 2024 Among many other significant accomplishments on behalf of the HUD Code manufactured housing industry and American consumers of affordable, non-subsidized manufactured housing MHARR, since its founding in 1985, has: Led the industry in securing the enactment of the Manufactured Housing Improvement Act of 2000 (2000 Reform Law), which mandated specific accountability-based
MHARR – ISSUES AND PERSPECTIVESBy Mark WeissSEPTEMBER 2024 “A SUPREME COURT GIFT TO THE MH INDUSTRY” By now, thanks to MHARR research and analysis, as presented in a March 1, 2024 Talking Points Paper entitled, “Summary of the Three Main Bottlenecks Suppressing Manufactured Housing Production, Marketing and Sales,” industry members are aware of the principal
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MHARR – ISSUES AND PERSPECTIVES By Mark Weiss MAY 2024 “REALITY VERSUS EMPTY POSTURING” Henry David Thoreau, in the classic, “Walden,” lamented that “shams and delusions are esteemed for [the] soundest truths, while reality is fabulous.” He observed that if “men would steadily observe realities only” and “not allow themselves to be deluded,” life would
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By Mark WeissNOVEMBER 2023 “WHAT’S IN A NAME? — EVERYTHING” Shakespeare famously asked, “What’s in a name?” If Shakespeare had been a lawyer – especially a regulatory lawyer – he would not have bothered to ask. He would have known the answer. For a regulated industry, such as manufactured housing (and especially a federally regulated
MHARR – ISSUES AND PERSPECTIVESBy Mark WeissAUGUST 2023 “THE DUTY TO SERVE — A CRUELLY-UNFULFILLED PROMISE AND MANDATE” The June 2023 edition of “MHARR – Issues and Perspectives,” addressed one of the two major post-production factors – discriminatory and exclusionary zoning mandates — underlying both the HUD Code manufactured housing industry’s failure to achieve significantly
MHARR – ISSUES AND PERSPECTIVES By Mark Weiss JUNE 2023 “HUD’s Failure on Zoning Equity Hurts Manufactured Housing Industry and Consumers” Since the publication of MHARR’s July 2022 White Paper, entitled “The Exploitation of Federal Housing Finance and Mortgage Funding Assistance Programs and Potential Solutions,” industry members have requested further explanation and expansion of the
APRIL 6, 2023 TO: HUD CODE MANUFACTURED HOUSING INDUSTRY MEMBERSFROM: MHARRRE: APRIL 2023 MHARR ISSUES AND PERSPECTIVES — A MUST READ Attached hereto is the April 2023 edition of MHARR Issues and Perspectives (IP), entitled “More DOE Energy Outrages Coming for the Industry and Consumers.” With recent activity by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
