1. MHARR FILES COMMENTS ON HUD LABEL FEE INCREASE RULEMAKING MHARR has filed written comments (attached) in a pending HUD rulemaking to increase the manufactured housing certification label fee for the first time since 2002. Under the HUD proposed rule, the Department would increase the label fee from the current […]
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A May 21, 2014 mark-up hearing by the House Appropriations Committee to consider amendments to the Fiscal Year 2015 Transportation, HUD and Related Agencies (THUD) appropriations bill, has concluded without the inclusion of any RV definition language that would further tamper with the federal manufactured housing law. Neither the omnibus
RV Industry Effort to expand statutory Exemption – Status Report and Updates Read More
Dear Mr. Tolley: Your May 5, 2014 article, “Mobile Homes Often Death Traps,” is long on sensationalism and short on facts – at least accurate ones. From the start, the premise of the article is false and misleading. It quotes Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney as stating that “manufactured homes
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Attached for your review and information are two HUD regulatory actions issued on May 2, 2014, concerning attic insulation tests (24 CFR 3280.207(c)) and requirements for supply air ducts (24 CFR 3280.715(a)(1)). Both of these standards were modified by HUD’s December 9, 2013 final rule addressing the Manufactured Housing Consensus
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Washington, D.C., May 5, 2014 – The Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) reports that according to official statistics compiled on behalf of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), manufactured housing production strengthened during March 2014. Just-released statistics indicate that HUD Code manufacturers produced 4,899 homes in March 2014, a
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The MHARR Executive Committee, at a May 1, 2014 emergency meeting, has unanimously decided to maintain the Association’s long-standing position that the federal manufactured housing law should not be amended to exempt “Park Model” trailers and towable recreational vehicles larger than 400 square feet. This action comes in response to
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Following a delay of 18 months – which is actually consistent with processing times during the Obama Administration — the Department of Housing and Urban Development has provided an initial response to MHARR’s September 25, 2012 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, filed through its law firm, Mayer-Brown, focusing primarily (but
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MHARR continued its final push for the complete implementation of the Manufactured Housing Improvement Act of 2000 with a positive hour-long meeting on April 10, 2014 with senior-level HUD officials, including HUD Assistant Secretary/Federal Housing Commissioner Carol Galante and newly-arrived HUD Manufactured Housing Program Administrator Pamela Danner. This intensified MHARR
Washington, D.C., April 3, 2014 – The Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) reports that according to official statistics compiled on behalf of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), manufactured housing production grew once again during February 2014. Just-released statistics indicate that HUD Code manufacturers produced
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As you may or may not be aware, the below article regarding manufactured homes and manufactured housing communities was published in the March 13, 2014 edition of the New York Times Magazine. Given the nature of article and its negative references to manufactured homes, communities, manufactured homeowners, community residents and
Washington, D.C., March 16, 2014 – The Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) today lauded the inclusion of specific MHARR-proposed language in the bi-partisanGSE housing finance reform bill (S. 1217) released on March 16, 2014 by Senate Banking Committee Chairman Tim Johnson (D-SD) and Ranking Member Mike Crapo (R-ID). The MHARR
Attached for your review and information is a copy of a self-explanatory MHARR letter welcoming and congratulating Ms. Pamela Danner on her selection by HUD as the new careeradministrator of the federal manufactured housing program. MHARR was informed of this selection by HUD on March 6, 2014. As the MHARR clearly states,
Washington, D.C., February 3, 2014 – The Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) reports that according to official statistics compiled on behalf of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), manufactured housing production continued to grow during December 2013. Just-released statistics indicate that HUD Code manufacturers produced 3,985 homes
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Attached for your information and review is a copy of a January 27, 2014 MHARR communication with the HUD Assistant Secretary for Housing-Federal Housing Commissioner addressing key issues that need to be resolved by the Department. As was discussed at the November 2013 MHARR Board of Directors meeting, this communication
Intensified and Expanded Effort on HUD Compliance With Federal Law Read More
The Fall segment of the federal 2013 Semi-Annual Regulatory Agenda (SRA), detailing pending and anticipated rulemaking activities, and published in November 2013 by the Regulatory Information Service Center, has now been fully analyzed by MHARR as set forth below. The Fall segment updates the initial 2013 federal SRA analyzed by MHARR in a memorandum dated January 8,
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Attached, for your review and information, is a copy of an introductory welcome letter sent by MHARR on January 7, 2014 to former Rep. Melvin Watt (D-NC), the new Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA). FHFA is the federal regulator of the Government Sponsored Enterprises (GSEs) and the agency
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Washington, D.C., January 6, 2014 – The Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) reports that according to official statistics compiled on behalf of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), manufactured housing production continued to grow during November 2013. Just-released statistics indicate that HUD Code manufacturers produced
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MHARR has received many inquiries from industry members regarding a HUD final rule, published in the December 11, 2013 edition of the Federal Register, entitled “Qualified Mortgage Definition for HUD Insured and Guaranteed Single Family Mortgages,” and specifically its relation to MHARR’s effort to have the Government National Mortgage Association
Final HUD “Qualified Mortgage “ Rule Addresses FHA Title I and Manufactured Loans Read More
After a prolonged delay, HUD has published a final rule adopting the second set of consensus standards developed and recommended by the Manufactured Housing Consensus Committee (MHCC) in 2005 (copy attached). The rule published in the Federal Register on December 9, 2013 – which will become effective on June 9, 2014 — implements, with some
Final HUD Rule Adopting “Second Set” of MHCC-Recommended Standards Revisions Read More
Washington, D.C., December 2, 2013 – The Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) reports that according to official statistics compiled on behalf of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), manufactured housing production showed strong growth once again during October 2013. Just-released statistics indicate that HUD Code
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