At the invitation of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), an MHARR delegation attended and participated in an April 26, 2017 meeting in Washington, D.C. with key FHFA officials responsible for the implementation of the Duty to Serve Underserved Markets (DTS) provision of the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 (HERA) and members of …
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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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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Washington, D.C., April 4, 2017 – 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), year-over-year manufactured housing industry production increased substantially again during February 2017. Just-released statistics indicate that HUD Code manufacturers produced 7,312 homes in …
