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“The Good, The Bad And The Ugly” – MHARR – Issues and Perspectives by Mark Weiss, J.D.

MHARR – ISSUES AND PERSPECTIVES By Mark Weiss  MARCH 2025 “THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY”     As 2025 begins, the production outlook for the HUD Code manufactured housing industry remains essentially static. While the nation continues to experience an unprecedented shortfall in the availability of affordable housing and homeownership, with a deficit […]

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MHARR Washington, D.C. Update – Report and Analysis for February 2025 – Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform

REPORT AND ANALYSIS   IN THIS REPORT:                                                                      FEBRUARY 19, 2025   DOGE SET TO HIT HUD UNILATERAL MHI CONCESSIONS MUST BE REJECTED MHARR ENGAGES TRUMP APPOINTEES ON SUBSTANCE MH PRODUCTION UP IN ‘24 – STILL BELOW HISTORICAL NORMS HUD IGNORES CONTINUED ZONING ATTACKS ON MH HOMELESSNESS SPIKES IN 2024 AS AFFORDABILITY PLUMMETS CFPB TARGETED

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Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) Initiates Action with Trump Administration on Major Industry Bottlenecks

Washington, D.C., February 6, 2025 – As President Donald Trump’s second term begins, MHARR has been extremely active in communicating both with the President and his nominees to lead the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to begin addressing and resolving the principal bottlenecks that have stymied the growth of the

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“TRUMP 2.0 – THE INDUSTRY’S SECOND CHANCE” MHARR – ISSUES and PERSPECTIVES

“TRUMP 2.0 – THE INDUSTRY’S SECOND CHANCE” MHARR – ISSUES and PERSPECTIVES  By Mark Weiss | JANUARY 2025   Life does not always offer second chances. When it does, those fortunate enough to have that opportunity had better make the best of it. Failure, as the saying goes, is not an option. Such is the case

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Interview Reprint of Mark Weiss, J.D., President and CEO of MHARR Responding to Questions Previously Posed to Manufactured Housing Institute CEO Lesli Gooch

  NOVEMBER 5, 2024   TO:                 MHARR MANUFACTURERS                        MHARR STATE AFFILIATES                        MHARR TECHNICAL REVIEW GROUP (TRG)   FROM:        MHARR RE:               REPRINT of MHProNews INTERVIEW                        with MHARR PRESIDENT and CEO Attached for your review

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“A Supreme Court Gift to the Manufactured Home Industry”

MHARR – ISSUES AND PERSPECTIVESBy Mark WeissSEPTEMBER 2024  “A SUPREME COURT GIFT TO THE MH INDUSTRY” By now, thanks to MHARR research and analysis, as presented in a March 1, 2024 Talking Points Paper entitled, “Summary of the Three Main Bottlenecks Suppressing Manufactured Housing Production, Marketing and Sales,” industry members are aware of the principal

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MHARR History and the FUTURE Of The HUD Code Industry

MAY 20, 2024TO: HUD CODE MANUFACTURED HOUSING INDUSTRY MEMBERSFROM: MHARRRE: MHARR HISTORY AND THE FUTURE OF THE HUD CODE INDUSTRY The attached materials – a brief history of the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) and a summary of its accomplishments on behalf of the manufactured housing industry – are self-explanatory. They illustrate, in

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MHARR — Issues and Perspectives “Reality Versus Empty Posturing”

MHARR – ISSUES AND PERSPECTIVES By Mark Weiss MAY 2024 “REALITY VERSUS EMPTY POSTURING” Henry David Thoreau, in the classic, “Walden,” lamented that “shams and delusions are esteemed for [the] soundest truths, while reality is fabulous.” He observed that if “men would steadily observe realities only” and “not allow themselves to be deluded,” life would

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Bottlenecks Suppressing Manufactured Housing Industry Continue Unabated

BOTTLENECKS SUPPRESSING MANUFACTURED HOUSING INDUSTRY CONTINUE UNABATED  Washington, D.C., May 2, 2024 – The Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) in May 1, 2024 communications to both Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Director Sandra L. Thompson and U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Acting Secretary Adrianne Todman (copies attached), has called for specific

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Persistent Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) Efforts Pay Dividends on Reforming Destructive Ginnie Mae Rule

PERSISTENT MHARR EFFORTS PAY DIVIDENDS ON REFORMING DESTRUCTIVE GINNIE MAE RULE Washington, D.C., March 5, 2024 – Persistent efforts by the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) to reform the draconian “10-10” rule imposed by Ginnie Mae in 2010 to limit lender eligibility under the Federal Housing Administration’s Title I manufactured home federal loan

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