FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: MHARR
(202) 783-4087
MHARR CALLS ON HUD SECRETARY TO ADDRESS
AND REMEDY FEDERAL MH PROGRAM MISMANAGEMENT
Washington, D.C., April 7, 2025 – As was previously reported, a delegation of senior officials of the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) met with U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Scott Turner on March 25, 2025. (See, MHARR March 31, 2025 News Release – “MHARR Aligns MH Industry Goals with President Trump and HUD Secretary Turner’s Affordable Homeownership Vision”).
Left to right above, Edward J. Hussey. Mark Weiss, HUD Secretary Scott Turner, Peter James and Danny D. Ghorbani.
In addition to the fundamental industry issues addressed at that meeting, MHARR, in a follow-up communication to the Secretary, urged him to withdraw the “midnight” appointments made to the statutory Manufactured Housing Consensus Committee (MHCC) just before the end of the Biden Administration, and instead appoint a slate of members which includes robust collective representation for the industry’s independent manufactured housing producers through MHARR staff and other MHARR-endorsed member executives and affiliated nominees.
Such action is fully warranted because the HUD program, in recent years, has gradually downgraded and undermined the independence of the MHCC, one of the critical program reforms mandated by Congress in the Manufactured Housing Improvement Act of 2000 (2000 Reform Law). By gerrymandering appointments to the MHCC, the program has sought, among other things, to institutionalize favoritism toward the industry’s largest corporate conglomerates at the expense of smaller and medium-sized HUD Code producers. This, added to other aspects of program mismanagement, including the program’s dependence on a de facto 50-year sole-source contractor (without applicable legal safeguards), has undermined the program in ways that should be addressed and remedied by HUD under the leadership of the Trump Administration.
Again, MHARR looks forward to working with Secretary Turner and his staff to increase the utilization and production of mainstream HUD Code manufactured homes and to fully incorporate manufactured housing into all of President Trump’s and HUD Secretary Turner’s affordable homeownership programs, activities and grant/funding mechanisms.
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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Attachments
1) Meeting Agenda with MHARR Leaders, HUD Secretary Turner, and Senior HUD Staff
Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR)
1331 Pennsylvania Ave N.W., Suite 512
Washington D.C. 20004
Phone: 202/783-4087
Fax: 202/783-4075
Email: MHARRDG@AOL.COM
Website: www.manufacturedhousingassociation.org
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