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MHARR.MHARR Exclusive Report Analysis, June 25, 2018

MHARR Exclusive Report & Analysis, June 25, 2018

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] REPORT AND ANALYSIS IN THIS REPORT: JUNE 25, 2018 EXCLUSIVE REPORT & ANALYSIS: SAA/PIA MEETING REFLECTS PROGRAM CHANGES NEW POST-PRODUCTION ASSOCIATION ANNOUNCED MONTGOMERY CONFIRMED AS HUD ASSISTANT SECRETARY MHARR CALLS FOR WITHDRAWAL OF HUD MH “GUIDANCE” HUD MUST NOT REPEAT PAST MISTAKES ON CONTRACT UNRESOLVED DODD-FRANK ISSUE RAISES MORE QUESTIONS REACTIVATION OF ENERGY RULE […]

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MHARR Response to Fannie Mae re: “MH Advantage.”

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]June 5, 2018 VIA FEDERAL EXPRESS Mr. Jonathan Lawless Vice President Fannie Mae 3900 Wisconsin Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20016 Re:MH Advantage Initiative Dear Mr. Lawless: Thank you for your letter dated June 4, 2018 regarding the impending implementation of Fannie Mae’s “MH Advantage Initiative,” as part of its “Duty to Serve Underserved Markets” (DTS)

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“Washington Post Article Underscores Clear Need for An Independent Post-Production Association”

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]A recent article in the Washington Post regarding the HUD manufactured housing program and the reassignment of former program administrator, Pamela Danner, vividly highlights the glaring need for a new, independent, collective, national trade association to more effectively represent the industry’s post-production sector. While the Post article, published May 2, 2018, was surprisingly objective in

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Final HUD “Guidance” Letter and News Release

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MHARR CALLS FOR REPEAL OF HUD MANUFACTURED HOUSING “GUIDANCE” DOCUMENTS Washington, D.C., April 25, 2018 – The Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR), citing recent rulings by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) stating that DOJ would no longer use its authority to enforce Executive Branch agency “guidance” documents in civil

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“MHARR Leadership Continues to Produce Results for Industry”

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]MHARR, as an organization, has always been tasked with being a leader on the issues it addresses. Established by industry pioneers in 1985, MHARR was not designed, and was never intended to be, a status quo organization given to complacency, pulling punches, or “going along” with regulators, industry detractors, or anyone else. It was formed,

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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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Duty To Serve “Final Rule” Continues To Fail Consumers And Industry – Time For Accountability

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Washington, D.C., February 12, 2018 – The Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR), in a February 6, 2018 communication to the Chairmen and Ranking Members of the Senate Banking Committee and the House Financial Services Committee (copy attached), has called on Congress to intervene in order to ensure the proper, timely and robust

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MHARR’s Year-Long Effort With Trump Administration Poised To Pay Huge Benefits

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]MHARR efforts over the past year to halt and reverse the regulatory excesses of the HUD manufactured housing program based on the regulatory freeze order imposed on all federal agencies by the Trump Administration on January 20, 2017 and subsequent Trump Administration Executive Orders (EOs) – specifically EO 13771 “Reducing Regulation and Controlling Regulatory Costs,”

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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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