GSE’s Duty To Serve

The decision by the FHFA to exclude loans on manufactured homes on leased land from their proposed rules to implement the duty to serve underserved markets as outlined in HERA will be financially devastating to existing manufactured homeowners. If the GSE’s do not offer loan programs for MH homeowners, the financing available to potential home buyers will be severely limited, costly or non existent.

We recommend that community owners encourage their residents to write their congressional representatives and let them know that the GSE’s exclusion of MH loans in land lease communities will be devastating to the value of their homes, significantly limiting their ability to sell their home for a fair value, thereby causing severe financial loss if the resident needs to move. The resident should suggest that the FHFA should treat a manufactured homeowner the same as a stick built homeowner and not abandon the support of millions of MH homeowners living in MH communities.

MHI will be developing a sample letter in the next few days for distribution to community residents. The deadline for comments is July 22nd, so we must mobilize swiftly if we are to get resident comments to the FHFA by July 22nd.

Greg O’Berry
President and COO
HometownAmerica