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Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform MHARR – Issues and Perspectives HUD’s Failure on Zoning Equity Hurts Manufactured Housing Industry and Consumers

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 …

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Supreme Court Case Could Significantly Advance Manufactured Home Producers’ Interests in Nation’s Capital

MAY 2, 2023FROM: MHARRRE: SUPREME COURT CASE COULD SIGNIFICANTLY ADVANCE MH PRODUCERS’ INTERESTS IN NATION’S CAPITAL The United States Supreme Court has accepted for review later this year, a case that could significantly alter the landscape of federal regulatory law, including critical matters that directly impact the comprehensively federally-regulated manufactured housing industry. The case, Loper Bright Enterprises v. …

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MHARR Presses HUD for Specific Inclusion of HUD-Regulated Manufactured Housing in New Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) Rule

Washington, D.C., April 24, 2023 – The Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) in comments filed with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) on April 19, 2023 (see, copy attached), has called for the full inclusion of federally-regulated manufactured housing in the revised and updated proposed rule to Affirmatively Further Fair …

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Why Manufactured Home Industry Members Must Comment on the DOE Manufactured Housing Energy Rule to Demand its Delay and Withdrawal

APRIL 12, 2023 TO: HUD CODE MANUFACTURED HOUSING INDUSTRY MEMBERS FROM:           MHARR  RE:                 WHY INDUSTRY MEMBERS MUST COMMENT                       ON THE DOE MANUFACTURED HOUSING ENERGY                       RULE TO DEMAND ITS DELAY AND WITHDRAWAL As promised in its …

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DOE Delays Energy Rule – Manufactured Home Industry Must Now Demand Total Revocation of Destructive Regulation

DOE DELAYS ENERGY RULE – INDUSTRY MUST NOWDEMAND TOTAL REVOCATION OF  DESTRUCTIVE REGULATIONThe U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced that its discriminatory and destructive “energy conservation” standards for HUD Code manufactured homes, slated to go into effect on May 31, 2023, will be delayed to an indefinite date in the future pending the development …

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MHARR Washington Update – March 15, 2023, Report and Analysis

REPORT AND ANALYSISIN THIS REPORT:                                                                    MARCH 15, 2023 DOE “ENERGY” RULE LAWSUIT FILED AFTER NINE MONTH DELAY FHFA CONTINUES TO THUMB ITS NOSE AT CONGRESS ON DTS HUD CONTINUES TO IGNORE ANTI-MH ZONING DISCRIMINATION HUD CODE PRODUCTION PLUMMETS MHARR SEEKS CONGRESSIONAL OVERSIGHT HEARINGS “NEW” IECC PROCESS WOULD WORSEN DOE ENERGY RULE MHARR WHITE PAPER …

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Legal Action Filed on DOE’s Manufactured Housing Energy Rule

FEBRUARY 15, 2023 TO:                 MHARR MANUFACTURERS MHARR STATE AFFILIATES MHARR TECHNICAL REVIEW GROUP (TRG) FROM:           MARK WEISS RE:                 LEGAL ACTION FILED ON DOE ENERGY RULE Just three months prior to the scheduled May 31, 2023 implementation date for the destructive U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) final manufactured housing “energy conservation” standards rule, the Manufactured Housing Institute …

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MHARR Calls for Congress to Pursue Oversight Hearings on Manufactured Housing Regulators

Attached for your review and information is a copy of a self-explanatory communication from MHARR to the incoming chairman of the House Subcommittee on Housing and Insurance. The purpose of this communication is to seek – and begin setting the groundwork for – a congressional oversight hearing for the federal manufactured housing program and related …

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Statutory Manufactured Housing Consensus Committee (MHCC) Recommends HUD Rejection of DOE Manufactured Housing Energy Rule

The statutory Manufactured Housing Consensus Committee (MHCC), at the conclusion of its November 15-17, 2022 meeting in Washington, D.C., to further consider the “alignment” of the HUD Code Federal Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards (FMHCSS) with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) final energy conservation standards for manufactured housing adopted on May 31, 2022, …

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MHARR Comments Oppose Incorporation of DOE Energy Standards Within the HUD Code

The Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) has filed written comments (copy attached) with the Manufactured Housing Consensus Committee (MHCC) opposing the incorporation or summary “alignment” of U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) manufactured housing “energy conservation” standards within the Federal Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards (FMHCSS) maintained by the U.S. Department of Housing and …

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