MHARR Washington Updates

MHARR AGGRESSIVELY RESISTS HUD PLAN TO FEDERALIZE INSTALLATION MHARR has received numerous inquiries from industry members and other HUD program stakeholders regarding a rapidly-widening power grab by program administrator to effectively federalize installation regulation in all 50 states, forcing changes to or, in some cases, totally displacing (or seeking to displace) state law installation standards …

APRIL 27, 2017- HUD PROGRAM INTENSIFIES EFFORT TO FEDERALIZE INSTALLATION Read More »

In an April 26, 2017 communication to U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary, Rick Perry (copy attached), MHARR reiterated its March 10, 2017 call for the withdrawal of DOE’s June 17, 2016 proposed manufactured housing energy rule, asserting, as yet another ground for the proposed rule’s retraction, a March 28, 2017 Trump Administration Executive Order …

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The price of Canadian lumber imported into the United States and widely used for residential construction – including the construction of HUD Code manufactured homes – will increase as a result of a tariff levied on those imports by the Trump Administration. After threatening to impose trade duties on goods imported from China and Mexico …

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