Our sister MHLivingNews site made the case during the Obama Administration that the federal government could in a fairly reasonable time frame significantly reduce federal housing spending, while creating new homeowners and good jobs in the process. That report was called “Reinventing HUDs Role in Quality Affordable Housing, Reducing Poverty and Dependency,” and is linked here. Think about that report plus others as you look at White House data provided to MHProNews today on just how much the federal government is spending on housing programs.
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The data that follows is from the White House Office of Budget and Management (OMB), specifically, from Table 11.3—Outlays for Payments for Individuals by Category and Major Program: 1940–2024. That document is available linked here as a download. We highlighted in yellow the portion that deals with federal housing expenditures. Keep in mind that state and local governments may spend money on housing too.
For historical context, in 1971 and 1972, here were the totals. The spending shown below is in millions of dollars. So 1971 is $735 million dollars.
| 1971 | 1972 | ||||
| Total | Direct | Grants | Total | Direct | Grants |
| 735 | 173 | 562 | 1,090 | 340 | 751 |
Note that those years pre-HUD Code mobile homes were on the rise, soon to hit their historic highs, prior to the enactment of the HUD Code for manufactured housing which occurred in 1974, and took effect on June 15, 1976.
Fast forward to 2015 and the last two years of the Obama Administration, noting that the 44th president’s administration was also responsible for the 2017 budget.
The spending shown below is in millions of dollars. So, 2015 is $46.745 billion dollars.
| 2015 | 2016 | ||||
| Total | Direct | Grants | Total | Direct | Grants |
| 46,745 | 18,215 | 28,530 | 48,003 | 18,442 | 29,561 |
| 2017 | 2018 | ||||
| Total | Direct | Grants | Total | Direct | Grants |
| 48,920 | 18,706 | 30,214 | 48,425 | 17,370 | 31,055 |
| 2019 estimate | 2020 estimate | ||||
| Total | Direct | Grants | Total | Direct | Grants |
| 50,161 | 17,498 | 32,663 | 48,928 | 17,047 | 31,881 |
| 2021 estimate | 2022 estimate | ||||
| Total | Direct | Grants | Total | Direct | Grants |
| 47,994 | 17,066 | 30,928 | 47,021 | 16,786 | 30,235 |
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One may recall that there were protests against HUD Secretary Carson and the Trump Administration for the ‘cuts’ in spending, although they were within ½ a billion dollars of 2017 spending. In hindsight, some of those protestors were linked to organizations that had ‘dark money’ funding from Warren Buffett. Estimates for 2019 and 2020 indicate increases in spending, but there has still be pushback on spending levels that were higher than those of many, but not all, of the Obama years.
On March 19, 2019, MHProNews provided a snapshot of the views of manufactured home community owner Marge Clark. In a nutshell, she argues that manufactured housing is competing against federal spending on housing.
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When someone looks at the historical trends, she has an interesting point.
There are 2020 candidates who are advocating a boost to spending on housing programs, which would arguably be a potential threat to manufactured housing independents, depending on how those programs are structured.
As some already know, there are several reasons why the 2020 political races could have serious ramifications for manufactured housing companies and investors. See the related reports for more.
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- NOTE: The chart below includes the Canadian stock, ECN, which purchased Triad Financial Services, a manufactured home industry lender
- NOTE: Drew changed its name and trading symbol at the end of 2016 to Lippert (LCII).
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