Pending Federal Legislation Fails to Effectively Remedy Discriminatory Zoning Exclusion Targeting Affordable Manufactured Housing
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Bi-Partisan Housing Supply Framework Act Bill Seeks Zoning Reform – Could Augment Enhanced Federal Preemption
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: MHARR (202) 783-4087 Bi-Partisan Housing Supply Framework Act Bill Seeks Zoning Reform – Could Augment Enhanced Federal Preemption Washington, D.C., April 22, 2025 – The Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) reports that a bill recently introduced in both houses of Congress (S.
MHARR Takes Major Step on Exclusionary Zoning In Meeting with Acting HUD Secretary Adrianne Todman
Washington, D.C., June 24, 2024 – In a meeting with HUD Acting Secretary Adrianne Todman on June 18, 2024, Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) President and CEO, Mark Weiss, called for decisive action by HUD to address and remove discriminatory zoning mandates which exclude affordable, mainstream HUD-regulated manufactured housing from many communities and
Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform MHARR – Issues and Perspectives HUD’s Failure on Zoning Equity Hurts Manufactured Housing Industry and Consumers
MHARR – ISSUES AND PERSPECTIVES By Mark Weiss JUNE 2023 “HUD’s Failure on Zoning Equity Hurts Manufactured Housing Industry and Consumers” Since the publication of MHARR’s July 2022 White Paper, entitled “The Exploitation of Federal Housing Finance and Mortgage Funding Assistance Programs and Potential Solutions,” industry members have requested further explanation and expansion of the
Latest Wake-Up Calls for the Manufactured Home Industry on Consumer Financing and Discriminatory Zoning
FEBRUARY 23, 2023 TO: HUD CODE MANUFACTURED HOUSING INDUSTRY MEMBERS FROM: MHARR RE: LATEST WAKE-UP CALLS FOR THE INDUSTRY ON CONSUMER FINANCING AND DISCRIMINATORY ZONING Both the double-digit contraction of the HUD Code manufactured housing market during the last quarter
MHARR Provides White House Manufactured Housing Task Force With Roadmap to Eliminate Zoning Discrimination and Costly Regulation
Washington, D.C., April 27, 2022 – In a second set of written comments copy attached submitted to the White House Manufactured Housing Task Force (Task Force) in connection with a series of “Listening Sessions,” the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) has called on the Task Force to recommend decisive action by the Biden
MHARR Urges Hud and FHFA To Address Zoning and Consumer Financing Under Their New Agreement
Attached, for your information and follow-up, is a copy of a communication from the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) to HUD Secretary Marcia Fudge and Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) Acting Director, Sandra Thompson, regarding the important agreement between the two agencies announced on Friday, August 13, 2021 (see copy attached). The Memorandum
“Zoning Exclusion — To Fight Or Switch?”
For those of us “senior” enough to remember cigarette commercials on television, an iconic brand, with a somewhat unusual advertising approach, was Tareyton cigarettes. Tareyton commercials featured “smokers” with phony black eyes, who supposedly preferred to “fight” rather than “switch” to some other cigarette brand. The idea, of course, was to promote brand loyalty. Unfortunately,
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MHARR Seeks to Keep HUD Zoning Study on Track
Washington, D.C., January 19, 2021 – The Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) has filed comments attached with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) seeking to ensure that a pending HUD study of state and local regulatory barriers to the use and placement of “factory-built” structures is – as it should be — properly focused on
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MHARR Continues to Press Two-Track Approach to Fight Discriminatory Zoning Laws
Washington, D.C., March 18, 2020 – The Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR), in comments filed on March 16, 2020 with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) see copy attached , has once again called on HUD to address — as part of the impending revision of its “Affirmatively Furthering Fair
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