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INDUSTRY PRODUCTION DECLINES AGAIN IN MAY 2026
Washington, D.C., July 6, 2026 – 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 housing industry year-over-year production continued to decline in May 2026. Just-released statistics indicate that HUD Code manufacturers produced 8,385 new homes in May 2026, a 9.6% decrease from the 9,281 new HUD Code homes produced in May 2025. Cumulative industry production for 2026 now totals 41,433 new HUD Code homes, as compared with 44,923 over the same period in 2025, a year-over-year decline of 7.7%.
A further analysis of the official industry statistics shows that the top ten shipment states from January 2023 — with monthly, cumulative, current reporting year (2026) and prior year (2025) shipments per category as indicated — are:
| State | Current Month (May 2026) | Cumulative Top Ten Since Jan 2023 | 2026 | 2025 |
| Texas | 1511 | 58237 | 6839 | 7985 |
| Florida | 588 | 24474 | 2896 | 2803 |
| North Carolina | 465 | 20676 | 2485 | 2760 |
| Alabama | 499 | 18887 | 2383 | 2420 |
| South Carolina | 455 | 16929 | 2223 | 2390 |
| Georgia | 430 | 15429 | 2146 | 2126 |
| Louisiana | 316 | 15420 | 1581 | 2154 |
| Mississippi | 337 | 12688 | 1789 | 1815 |
| Kentucky | 363 | 12646 | 1734 | 1587 |
| Tennessee | 261 | 12422 | 1554 | 1715 |
The May 2026 statistics move Georgia into 6th place on the cumulative top-ten shipments list, while Louisiana falls to 7th place.
The industry’s continuing sluggish performance shows, at least in part, the ongoing negative market impact of the utter failure of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac – after nearly two full decades – to fully and properly implement the statutory Duty to Serve Underserved Markets (DTS) mandate. As the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) recently conceded, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have totally failed to serve the industry’s dominant chattel lending sector, which represents nearly 80% of the entire manufactured housing consumer finance sector. This, in turn, sustains needlessly high interest rates for chattel loans due to lenders’ inability to off-load risk via the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac securitization and secondary market structure, combined with de facto lender exclusion from the market, resulting in a less-than-fully-competitive market with fully competitive interest rates. Again, as with the industry’s other principal bottlenecks, this severe constraint on the mainstream HUD Code market, would not be remedied by the pending housing bill being promoted by the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI).
The Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform is a Washington, D.C.- based national trade association representing the views and interests of independent producers of federally-regulated manufactured housing.
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