Washington, D.C.
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PENDING LEGISLATION FAILS TO ELIMINATE “ENERGY”
STANDARDS MANDATE TARGETING MANUFACTURED HOUSING
Washington, D.C., June 2, 2026 – The Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) is today publishing a third detailed analysis (copy attached) based on its April 13, 2026 one-page summary (copy also attached) of fundamental and potentially serious questions for the manufactured housing industry – and manufactured housing consumers – raised by the housing bills currently pending in the U.S. Senate (the ROAD to Housing Act) and the U.S. House of Representatives (the Housing for the 21st Century Act).
This analysis could have been entitled the “We Told You So” paper, as it traces the course of the Manufactured Housing Institute’s (MHI) apparent compromises and concessions on the matter of destructive U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) “energy conservation” standards for manufactured housing during the legislative process in both houses of Congress. As MHARR’s three published analyses now show, MHI’s involvement in the legislative process surrounding both “housing” bills, raises serious questions regarding major potential pitfalls – and a failure to remedy the industry’s principal bottlenecks (i.e., lack of full and robust DTS implementation, discriminatory zoning exclusion and draconian “energy” standards) — for both the manufactured housing industry and American consumers of affordable housing.
After failing to object to the energy standards “Term Sheet” during a corrupted DOE “negotiated rulemaking” – where MHARR cast the only “no” vote – MHI is now publicly supporting pending housing bills that fail to definitively and effectively eliminate the threat of discriminatory, high-cost, market-killing energy standards. Even worse, MHI either failed to stop (or was part of) an amendment process in the House of Representatives that saw legislation offered by Rep. Erin Houchin – which would have repealed both the DOE energy standards and their statutory authorization – fundamentally undermined by language changes that would leave intact the statutory directive for such standards.
In Washington, D.C., MHARR President and CEO, Mark Weiss, stated: “Discriminatory and excessive energy regulation targeting manufactured housing has absolutely no legitimate basis and should not be tolerated – in any degree – by any industry organization. For this issue to be the subject of a tortured “word salad” in the pending “housing” bills, is unfathomable, as is MHI’s apparent failure to publicly demand a full and effective remedy for such baseless regulatory over-reach.”
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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Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR)
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Phone: 202/783-4087
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Website: www.manufacturedhousingassociation.org
MHARR’s report is available for re-publication in full (i.e., without alteration or substantive modification) without further permission and with proper attribution and/or linkback to MHARR.
MHARR notes that the featured image was generated by artificial intelligence (AI) powered Gemini. The article and the attached were written by manufactured housing expert human intelligence (HI).
