MHARR Washington Updates

Attached, for your information, are further comments filed by the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory (MHARR) on October 13, 2021 in connection with the federal Manufactured Housing Consensus Committee’s (MHCC) ongoing consideration of proposed manufactured housing “energy conservation” standards published by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) on August 26, 2021. The MHCC has already […]

Attached , for your information, are comments filed by the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory (MHARR) on October 1, 2021 in connection with the federal Manufactured Housing Consensus Committee’s (MHCC) ongoing consideration of proposed manufactured housing “energy conservation” standards published by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) in the Federal Register on August 26, 2021.

MHARR CHALLENGES MISLEADING WASHINGTON POST ARTICLE – SEEKS CORRECTION Washington, D.C., September 27, 2021 – The Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR), in a September 22, 2021 communication, has admonished the author and publisher of a misleading September 9, 2021 article regarding manufactured housing see, copies attached , and has called for the publication

Attached, for your information, are initial comments submitted by the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) to the federal Manufactured Housing Consensus Committee (MHCC) in connection with the MHCC’s upcoming September 23, 2021 meeting to consider – and provide comments on – the latest U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) proposed “energy conservation” standards for

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), on August 26, 2021, formally published its “Supplemental Notice of Proposed Rulemaking” for manufactured housing energy standards in the Federal Register see, see, copy attached. As has repeatedly been emphasized by MHARR, the proposed DOE standards would impose extreme and costly new energy mandates on manufactured homes, based –

Attached, for your information and follow-up, is a copy of a communication from the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) to HUD Secretary Marcia Fudge and Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Acting Director, Sandra Thompson, regarding the important agreement between the two agencies announced on Friday, August 13, 2021 (see copy attached). The Memorandum

Washington, D.C., August 16, 2021 – The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has released a “prepublication” version of its second round of proposed “energy conservation” standards for HUD Code manufactured homes. See, communication attached. Publication of the Supplemental Notice of Proposed Rulemaking in the Federal Register will follow. Earlier proposed DOE manufactured housing energy standards,

Washington, D.C., August 4, 2021 – The Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR), in written comments submitted to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) see, copy attached, has stated that any DOE energy standards for manufactured housing must not result in excessive purchase price increases that would exclude millions of lower and moderate-income families

Washington, D.C., July 15, 2021 – The Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) at a July 14, 2021 “listening session” conducted by the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) and in written comments filed with that agency see, Copy attached has blasted the deletion of any manufactured home personal property loan support mechanisms from the latest Duty to Serve

REPORT AND ANALYSIS IN THIS REPORT: JULY 8, 2021 INDUSTRY POST-PRODUCTION FAILURES HIT HOME MHARR CALLS FOR CHANGES FROM NEW FHFA DIRECTOR MHARR BLASTS NEW FANNIE/FREDDIE DTS PLANS DOE PLANNING EXCESSIVE MH ENERGY STANDARDS DOE TAKES FIRST STEP TARGETING HUD CODE HOMES INDUSTRY FAILURES ON POST-PRODUCTION ISSUES COME HOME TO ROOST In a “Fact Sheet”