If, however, it is attached as a rider to the must-pass appropriations bill, the president will sign it, according to Ross Kinzler, Executive Director of the Wisconsin Housing Alliance, who urges all in the MH industry to notify your congressional representatives to vote for this measure, which will correct the inadvertent powers bestowed on the CFPB by Dodd-Frank.
Joe Kelly of the Iowa Manufactured Housing Association (IMHA) reminds us that we cannot get much closer to relief from the onerous provisions of Dodd-Frank that hamper MH sales than for S 650 to be rolled into the large omnibus appropriations bill that has to be passed to keep the federal government from being shut down.
Even if your representative and senators have already voiced support, it doesn’t hurt to remind them again of the importance of S 650 as a policy rider to appropriations. He reiterates that conditions are always changing in the halls of Congress, we are approaching an election year and we do not know what may happen in 2016, so it’s best to do it now: contact your emissaries in Congress today.
Tyler Craddock, Executive Director of the Virginia Manufactured and Modular Housing Association, says “One click. One minute of your time.”
MHProNews and MHLivingNews publisher L. A. “Tony” Kovach, echoing the words of other MH industry pros, says Ross Kinzler is correct, POTUS will sign off on an appropriations bill, but the MH industry needs to garner support for putting pressure on both parties in Washington to include S 682 in the appropriations bill.
While there is a two-year window for the legislation to pass next year, that is Plan B, which is much less certain. Kovach says, “If one-in-ten workers in our industry did that (contacted Congressional members) you could virtually guarantee that this rider would stay attached to the omnimbus appropriations bill, and this would thus pass this year. Passage this year means that next year, Joe Kelly’s right. We’d all be selling more homes as a result, plus our exiting home owners and lenders would be better off too!” Affordable quality housing is a non-partisan issue.
Barack Obama learned community organizing as a young man, and used that to engineer two terms in the White House. The MH industry needs to learn that we as a community can use that same organizing tool to get what we want—not someday when maybe it falls in our lap, or tomorrow, which never arrives. Apollo Creed’s mantra from Rocky 3 is, “There is no tomorrow!!” Click here to send a message to your Members of Congress, now!
Link to Ross Kinzler; to Joe Kelly; to Tyler Craddock; to L. A. “Tony” Kovach. ##
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