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2020 Federal Budget Request For HUD Manufactured Housing Program Needs Further Reform

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The White House, in its Fiscal Year 2020 proposed federal budget, unveiled March 11, 2019, has requested an annual appropriation of $12 million for the federal manufactured housing program, an amount that is identical to the President’s 2019 budget request for the program, but $1 million more than the program received on an annualized basis […]

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HUD Whitewash on DOE Rule Costs, More Washington Manufactured Housing Updates

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] HUD WHITEWASHES ALLEGED DOE ENERGY RULE COSTS PROCEDURAL CHANGES SHOULD APPLY TO ANY DOE MH RULE REVISED DTS PLANS RELEASED – CHATTEL STILL IN LIMBO 2018 PRODUCTION UP – BUT SHORT OF 100,000 HOME BENCHMARK UNFINISHED BUSINESS – HUD MONITORING CONTRACT REFORM CONGRESS TAKES UP GSE REFORM HUD ANNOUNCES MHCC/SUBCOMMITTEE MEETINGS HUD PRODUCES WHITEWASH

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HUD Code Manufactured Home Production Decline Persists – Time For Action Not Excuses

HUD Code Manufactured Home Production Decline Persists – Time For Action Not Excuses

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Washington, D.C., February 4, 2019 – 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 home production declined again in December 2018. Just-released statistics indicate that HUD Code manufacturers produced 5,943 homes in December

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“A HUD MONITORING CONTRACT ‘BRIDGE TO NOWHERE’”

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Let’s start off with a truism. And that truism, quite simply, is that within the HUD manufactured housing program, the so-called “monitoring” function has grown, expanded and metamorphosized over time, to become something that it was never meant, designed or intended to be, with a private contractor exercising defactogovernmental authority over regulated parties. Of course,

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MHARR Communication with HUD Assistant Secretary Brian Montgomery Regarding Program Monitoring Contract

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]October 26, 2018 VIA FEDERAL EXPRESS Hon. Brian Montgomery Assistant Secretary U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Suite 9100 451 7thStreet, S.W. Washington, D.C. 20410 Re: Manufactured Housing Program Monitoring Contract Dear Secretary Montgomery: As the national representative organization for small businesses within the comprehensively-regulated manufactured housing industry, the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory

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MHARR Calls on HUD To Remove Zoning, Placement and Consumer Financing Barriers to Manufactured Homes

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Washington, D.C., October 11, 2018 – The Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR), in written comments filed with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) on October 11, 2018 (see, copy attached) has called on HUD to promote zoning and placement parity for federally-regulated manufactured homes as part of the Department’s plan

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“Restoring the Rule of Law To Manufactured Housing Regulation”

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]MHARR —ISSUES AND PERSPECTIVES By Mark Weiss JULY 2018 The rule of law, and the supremacy of law over the arbitrary whims of individuals who happen to wield government power, was a profound concern for the founders who debated and developed the Constitution of the United States. For over two centuries, legal scholars have pointed

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HUD Secretary Carson Addresses Manufactured Housing At Oversight Hearing

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]JUNE 27, 2018   TO:                 MHARR MANUFACTURERS                         MHARR STATE AFFILIATES                         MHARR TECHNICAL REVIEW GROUP (TRG)  FROM: MHARR  RE:  HUD Secretary Carson Addresses Manufactured Housing At Oversight Hearing The House of Representatives’ Financial Services Committee held an oversight hearing for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) on June 27, 2018. The sole witness

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Comprehensive MHARR Comments on HUD Review Of Manufactured Housing Regulations

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] As MHARR previously advised you, HUD, on January 26, 2018, announced a comprehensive, “top-to-bottom” review of all its existing and pending manufactured housing regulations and related “regulatory actions,” pursuant to Trump Administration Executive Orders (EOs) 13771 (“Reducing Regulation and Controlling Regulatory Costs”) and 13777 (“Enforcing the Regulatory Reform Agenda”). In response to HUD’s request

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“Diversion, Distraction or Destruction — And Time to Raise the Red Flag?”

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]According to recent press reports, nearly fifty percent (or more) of the HUD Code manufactured housing production market is currently held by one manufacturer, Clayton Homes, Inc. (Clayton), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway Corporation (BHC).  At the same time, at least thirty-five percent of the manufactured home consumer finance market (as acknowledged by BHC

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