Manufactured housing can solve America's affordable housing challenges without federal subsidies. To do that we must have legislative and/or regulatory fixes to laws that choke our industry. Doing so would create jobs and protect the value of some 20 million who live in factory-built homes. Last year's HR 3849 and S 3484 bills will be renamed, tweaked to marry up language and will be reintroduced soon on a bi-partisan basis.
Ron Thomas, Sr. – Chairman of the Midwest Manufactured Housing Federation (MMHF) and Louisville Manufactured Housing Show has rightly called our Industry "a phenomenon!" Until someone experiences first hand the new quality, durable energy savings homes that U.S. Census Bureau statistics says sells for an average of half the cost of conventional construction, it is hard for those we visit in DC – officials, staff, Senators or Congressional Reps – to grasp how amazing our product truly is.
We created pages like this photo gallery:
www.ManufacturedHomeLivingNews.com/gallery
or the shorter URL: MHLivingNews.com/gallery to introduce our product to those who don't fully "get it" about the phenomenon of manufactured homes. Please share the link with your congressional staffers.
The Opposite of Budget Busters
With the three big lifts of sequesters, CRs and the debt ceiling all on people's minds in DC, we need to stand tall and say, "We Have Solutions!"
When a Senator like Sherrod Brown or a Congressman like Stephen Fincher – polar and party 'opposites' in millions of minds – agree we need to fix the unintended consequences of legislation and regulations harming us, that means something.
Ask your Congressman and Senators to get on board with a piece of legislation that members of both parties say, as Senator Joe Donnelly told the Manufactured Housing Institute's (MHI) members on February, 25, 2013, "is a truly bi-partisan issue."
You can have your U.S. Representative's or Senators' staff contact:
Jason Boehlert, MHI Gov't Affairs VP – jBoehlert@mfghome.org – for more details.
Congressman Stephen Fincher told me before going into his address to MHI members that we "can fix this for you." He too spoke of bi-partisanship on the issue.
We don't need to beg, we need to express with pride that we are a uniquely American
phenomenon! Let those elected let us do our jobs. That job is serving millions of Americans – and potentially millions more – with a fine housing solution that benefits the federal budget too. I hope to see you at the Tunica Manufactured Housing Show. ##
PS: Check our many Exclusive and Red Hot Featured Articles for February and see the
other new stories at MHLivingNews.com too.
L. A. "Tony" Kovach
MHLivingNews.com=Re-Discovering and Spotlighting the MHLifeStyle
MHProNews.com = MHMSM.com = Industry News, Tips and Views Pros can Use
Services:B2BandB2CAds, Proven MH Marketing & Sales Systems, Websites other Industry Solutions.
Office –815-270-0500
latonyk@gmail.com or tony@mhmsm.com
http://www.linkedin.com/in/latonykovach= connect with me on Linkedin.
http://pinterest.com/latonyk/manufactured-home-lifestyle/
+++
Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right. – Henry Ford
