The Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) is out with an advance of its April edition of “Issues and Perspectives,” a newsletter that discusses items relevant to the manufactured housing industry.
This edition of the newsletter addresses the need for manufactured housing to remain federally regulated, with MHARR President & CEO Mark Weiss stating, “In the natural world, the telltale scent of decay inevitably attracts predators and opportunists. Apparently, it’s no different with the decay of the HUD manufactured housing program over the past decade, and particularly over the past three years.”
Weiss continues, stating that, “With the program in a steep decline under its present Administrator, talk has once again emerged about ‘sunsetting’ the program at HUD, along with its federally preemptive building code, removing this expenditure from the federal budget.”
Such an action would effectively return the regulation of manufactured housing to the control of state and local governments.
Weiss also points to “insiders and outsiders that would like to see an elimination of the program, saying “insiders would rather take the easy way out, and simply end the federal program without examining the consequences of doing so,” and outsiders having “always opposed federal regulation of manufactured housing and have sought to destroy it based on their own narrow self interests.”
Weiss points to what MHARR see as the answer.
“The answer, quite simply, is to make the federal program follow the law and implement the 2000 reform law according to its terms and full purposes.”
The full newsletter is linked here.
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