Further Evidence of Industry Complicity with Regulators to Downgrade the MHCC

Item sent to MHARR Email List on November 12, 2010

Shown below, for your review and information, is an article authored by an independent industry trade journalist, published in the Manufactured Home Marketing Sales Management (MHMSM) blog on November 11, 2010. The article is based on developments at the recently-concluded October 26-27, 2010 Manufactured Housing Consensus Committee (MHCC) meeting in Washington, D.C.

We encourage you to carefully read this article to its conclusion, as it clearly reveals the support and free hand that HUD regulators regularly receive from part of the industry to ignore or evade existing laws – in this case improperly downgrading the MHCC.

As MHARR has been warning the industry for years, regulators’ continuing evasion of the good laws passed by Congress, on all matters, is similarly enabled and facilitated by industry apologists, under the guise of “working with” those regulators, which – whether it be in the consumer finance or production arena – has resulted in nothing but 12 years of industry decline with no corresponding accountability.

Indeed, in this case, while two senior members of the MHCC (community and retailer) attempt to explain the failures of HUD regulators in dealing with the MHCC, the spokesperson for their national representation seeks to justify the actions of those regulators.

Nevertheless, with the current mood of the country, a power shift and major changes impending in Washington, D.C., the industry once again has a window of opportunity to correct the abuses of the past 12 years through strong and focused policies and actions that provide positive results, rather than more of the same go-along-to-get-along agenda that produces nothing but more excuses.

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