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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Washington, D.C., May 18, 2017 – The Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) has filed written comments (copy attached) with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) seeking the repeal of discriminatory requirements imposed on federally-regulated producers of manufactured housing under EPA’s Formaldehyde Emission Standards for Wood Products rule, published on December 12, 2016. MHARR’s written comments follow –
MHARR Seeks Repeal Of Discriminatory Formaldehyde Mandates Read More »
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]As MHARR continues to expose the outlines, extent and sheer audacity of HUD’s ongoing power grab under Administrator Pamela Danner to dictate installation standards and enforcement procedures in all fifty states – including states with complying, HUD-approved, state law installation programs – the Association has received a wave of concerned inquiries from industry members and
“Industry, States and Consumers Must Resist HUD Installation Power Grab” Read More »
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Washington, D.C., May 9, 2017 – The entirely discretionary final “Duty to Serve Underserved Markets” (DTS) rule published by the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) on December 29, 2016 — opposed by the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) as being totally inconsistent with the mandatory and remedial nature of DTS as enacted by
Terrible FHFA Duty to Serve Rule Leads to Useless Fannie And Freddie DTS Chattel Plans Read More »
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Washington, D.C., May 8, 2017 – The Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) has formally called on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to withdraw certification requirements contained in its December 2016 Formaldehyde Emissions Standards for Composite Wood Products rule, which discriminate against manufactured housing and manufactured housing producers. At a May 1, 2017 meeting in Washington,
MHARR to EPA: withdraw discriminatory formaldehyde mandate Read More »
MHARR AGGRESSIVELY RESISTS HUD PLAN TO FEDERALIZE INSTALLATION MHARR has received numerous inquiries from industry members and other HUD program stakeholders regarding a rapidly-widening power grab by program administrator to effectively federalize installation regulation in all 50 states, forcing changes to or, in some cases, totally displacing (or seeking to displace) state law installation standards
APRIL 27, 2017- HUD PROGRAM INTENSIFIES EFFORT TO FEDERALIZE INSTALLATION Read More »
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
MHARR: Trump Executive Order Nullifies Basis for Energy Rule Read More »
