“The International Code Council, a Washington nonprofit made up of government officials and industry representatives, updates its model codes every three years, inviting state and local governments to adopt them. Last year, the National Association of Home Builders boasted of its prowess at stopping the 2018 codes it didn’t like,” stated Christopher Flavelle article.
“Only 6 percent of the proposals that NAHB opposed made it through the committee hearings intact,” the association wrote on its blog, per Flavelle’s Bloomberg report.
That, say concerned voices in manufactured housing, is almost the polar opposite of what is occurring with the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) and its multi-year history of failure to achieve its own stated goals (see a 400 word executive summary, linked here).
Post-Hurricane Harvey
Flavelle has a focus on climate.
So his report is cast through that lens, which he says is a “…debate pits insurers, who favor tighter building codes and fewer homes in vulnerable locations, against homebuilders and developers, who want to keep homes as inexpensive as possible.”
Whatever viewpoint an industry professional finds themselves on in the climate issue and windstorms, it’s an issue that MHLivingNews spotlighted here. MHProNews in conjunction with MHARR examined look at a problematic university level report about manufactured homes and windstorms that MHI didn’t respond to, why?
The Questions for Members, Industry at MHI’s Annual Meeting
Is the NAHB more effective on behalf of their members than MHI is for theirs?
Why has MHI not published their own score card of success, which NAHB has done for its members?
President Trump has been responsive and respectful to NHAB. Where is a like level of support being obtained by MHI for the industry?
These are among questions that dues-paying MHI members and others ought to be asking. Because home builders, with far higher costs than manufactured housing, are outselling our industry many times over.
Programing Note: MHProNews will plan to look at the NAHB in greater depth in the coming weeks, to see what lessons that organization may hold for the manufactured housing industry. ## (News, analysis.)
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