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MHARR Board Holds Highly Productive Meeting — Adopts Bold New Initiatives

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]MHARR BOARD HOLDS HIGHLY PRODUCTIVE MEETING — ADOPTS BOLD NEW INITIATIVES Washington, D.C., April 2, 2019 – Despite producing its best homes ever, at a price point that is inherently affordable for virtually every American family, in a market environment featuring an ever-growing need for affordable homeownership and housing resources, the production and market-share of the […]

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MHARR Analysis Exposes HUD PD&R Energy Costs “Whitewash”

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Washington, D.C., March 19, 2019 –The Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) has filed an analysis and comments (copy attached) with the federal Manufactured Housing Consensus Committee (MHCC) exposing a blatant whitewash of supposed manufactured housing energy regulation costs developed at the request of the MHCC by the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s

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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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New Proposed Energy Standards Rule Should Apply To Manufactured Housing Energy Rule making

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has published a new proposed rule in the February 13, 2019 Federal Register (copy attached) that would significantly modify its procedures for developing new or revised energy conservation standards and related test procedures for consumer products, “appliances,” and certain commercial and industrial equipment. While the proposed rule, as published,

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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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“The Illusion of Motion Versus Real-World Challenges”

Motion – or, more accurately, activity – in and of itself, is not necessarily synonymous with, or equivalent to, real progress, or, in fact, any progress at all.  Recent reports emerging from elsewhere within the universe of organizations representing the manufactured housing industry paint a uniformly rosy picture of almost non-stop engagement, dialogue, meetings, conferences,

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Production Decline Continues- in November 2018

Production Decline Continues in November 2018

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Washington, D.C., January 3, 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 once again in November 2018. Just-released statistics indicate that HUD Code manufacturers produced 7,670 homes

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Production Flatline Continues in October 2018

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Washington, D.C., December 3, 2018 – 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 slightly, once again, in October 2018.  Just-released statistics indicate that HUD Code manufacturers produced 8,588 homes

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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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September 2018 Manufactured Home Production Data Shows Slight Flatline

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Washington, D.C., November 6, 2018 – 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 flat-lined slightly in September 2018. Just-released statistics indicate that HUD Code manufacturers produced 7,519 homes in September

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