TO:HUD CODE INDUSTRY MANUFACTURERS, RETAILERS, COMMUNITIES, STATE ASSOCIATIONS AND PRESS FROM:MHARR RE:HUD PUBLISHES FINAL REVISED RV EXEMPTION RULE The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has published a final rule in the November 16, 2018 Federal Register (copy attached) amending the exemption of certain recreational vehicles (RV) from regulation …
Let’s start off with a truism. And that truism, quite simply, is that within the HUD manufactured housing program, the so-called “monitoring” function has grown, expanded and metamorphosized over time, to become something that it was never meant, designed or intended to be, with a private contractor exercising defactogovernmental authority …
NOVEMBER 6, 2018 Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-TX), retiring Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, has called for an end to the two Government Sponsored Enterprises (GSEs) – Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac – and the repeal of their federal government charters. In a Press Release (copy attached) issued on …
Washington, D.C., November 6, 2018 – 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), HUD Code manufactured home production flat-lined slightly in September 2018. Just-released statistics indicate that HUD Code manufacturers …
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October 26, 2018 VIA FEDERAL EXPRESS Hon. Brian Montgomery Assistant Secretary U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Suite 9100 451 7thStreet, S.W. Washington, D.C. 20410 Re: Manufactured Housing Program Monitoring Contract Dear Secretary Montgomery: As the national representative organization for small businesses within the comprehensively-regulated manufactured housing industry, the …
OCTOBER 17, 2018 TO: MHARR MANUFACTURERS MHARR STATE AFFILIATES MHARR TECHNICAL REVIEW GROUP (TRG) FROM: MHARR RE: HUD Will Not Finalize Proposed “Frost-Free” Interpretive Bulletin HUD’s Installation contractor, SEBA Professional Services, Inc., (SEBA) announced during an open industry conference call on October 16, 2018, that the Department’s …
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Washington, D.C., September 17, 2018 – The Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) filed written comments (see, copy attached hereto) on September 17, 2018 responding to an August 3, 2018 Notice of Data Availability and Request for Information (NODA) published by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) in connection …
Washington, D.C., September 10, 2018 – 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), year-over-year manufactured housing industry production growth continued in July 2018. Just-released statistics indicate that HUD Code manufacturers …
Double-Digit HUD Code Production Growth in July 2018 Read More
MHARR —Issues and Perspectives By Mark Weiss September 2018 HUD Secretary, Dr. Ben Carson, as the saying goes, “gets it.” First, and most fundamentally, he understands – and has very plainly stated — that to successfully address and ultimately solve the nation’s affordable housing crisis, which has some 21 million …
AUGUST 6, 2018 TO: MHARR MANUFACTURERS MHARR STATE AFFILIATES MHARR TECHNICAL REVIEW GROUP (TRG) The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has published a “Notice of Data Availability and Request for Information” (“Notice”) regarding its previously dormant manufactured housing energy conservation standards rulemaking in the August 3, 2018 edition of the Federal Register (see copy attached). …
As was referenced in MHARR’s July 26, 2018 memorandum concerning its recent meeting with HUD Assistant Secretary-Federal Housing Commissioner, Brian Montgomery, HUD has now published formal notice of an upcoming meeting of the Manufactured Housing Consensus Committee (MHCC) in the July 31, 2018 edition of the Federal Register (see, copy …
TO: MHARR MANUFACTURERS MHARR STATE AFFILIATES MHARR TECHNICAL REVIEW GROUP (TRG) FROM: MARK WEISS RE: MHARR MEETING WITH HUD ASSISTANT SECRETARY BRIAN Montgomery A delegation of MHARR officials, including MHARR Chairman, James Shea, Jr., MHARR Immediate-Past Chairman, John Bostick, MHARR President Mark Weiss and MHARR Senior Advisor, Danny D. Ghorbani, met …
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MHARR —ISSUES AND PERSPECTIVES By Mark Weiss JULY 2018 The rule of law, and the supremacy of law over the arbitrary whims of individuals who happen to wield government power, was a profound concern for the founders who debated and developed the Constitution of the United States. For over two …
“Restoring the Rule of Law To Manufactured Housing Regulation” Read More
Washington, D.C., July 5, 2018 – 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), year-over-year manufactured housing industry production grew again in May 2018. Just-released statistics indicate that HUD Code manufacturers …
Industry Production Increases Parallel Strong Trump Economy and Pending Regulatory Review Read More
RE: HUD Secretary Carson Addresses Manufactured Housing At Oversight Hearing The House of Representatives’ Financial Services Committee held an oversight hearing for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) on June 27, 2018. The sole witness for this hearing was HUD Secretary Dr. Benjamin Carson. During the two-hour hearing, …
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IN THIS REPORT: JUNE 25, 2018 EXCLUSIVE REPORT & ANALYSIS: SAA/PIA MEETING REFLECTS PROGRAM CHANGES NEW POST-PRODUCTION ASSOCIATION ANNOUNCED MONTGOMERY CONFIRMED AS HUD ASSISTANT SECRETARY MHARR CALLS FOR WITHDRAWAL OF HUD MH “GUIDANCE” HUD MUST NOT REPEAT PAST MISTAKES ON CONTRACT UNRESOLVED DODD-FRANK ISSUE RAISES MORE QUESTIONS REACTIVATION OF ENERGY RULE MAY …
Washington, D.C., June 4, 2018 – 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), year-over-year manufactured housing industry production grew again in April 2018. Just-released statistics indicate that HUD Code manufacturers produced 8,262 homes …
The nomination of Brian Montgomery to serve as HUD Assistant Secretary for Housing – Federal Housing Commissioner has finally been confirmed by the United States Senate, after an extended delay. Montgomery, who was initially nominated by President Trump in September 2017, was confirmed by a vote of 74-23 on May …
A recent article in the Washington Post regarding the HUD manufactured housing program and the reassignment of former program administrator, Pamela Danner, vividly highlights the glaring need for a new, independent, collective, national trade association to more effectively represent the industry’s post-production sector. While the Post article, published May 2, 2018, …
The Washington Post has published an article (see, copy attached) concerning the HUD manufactured housing program and MHARR’s efforts in 2017 to change the leadership of the program in order to comply with applicable federal law. Although the article is self-explanatory, an important point that I stressed in speaking with …
