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MHARR Comprehensive Comments On Doe Proposed Energy Rule Warrant Support, Action

By / September 19, 2018 / Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform

Attached for your review and information, are MHARR’s comprehensive written comments opposing the U.S. Department of Energy’s June 17, 2016 proposed rule for manufactured housing energy standards. These comments refute the misinformation that has been circulated within the industry regarding this needless and destructive abuse of government power and fully …

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MHARR Continues Tirade over HUD/MHI/DOE Collusion

By / July 26, 2016 / Advocacy, Business, home buyers, Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes

The Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) tells MHProNews the manufactured housing division at HUD waited beyond the last minute allowed to call for an Aug. 9 conference call of the Manufactured Housing Consensus Committee (MHCC) to discuss the Department of Energy’s (DOE) proposed rules. The Federal Advisory Committee …

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DOE Public Meeting On Mh Energy Rule Further Exposes Multiple Fallacies

By / July 19, 2016 / Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), as announced in the June 17, 2016 Federal Register publication of its proposed rule for manufactured housing energy standards, held a public meeting regarding that rule at DOE headquarters in Washington, D.C. on July 13, 2016. This proposed rule — as MHARR has already …

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MHARR Issues a Call to Arms to Defeat the Enactment of DOE’s New Proposal

By / July 14, 2016 / Advocacy, Business, Communities, Company News, home buyers, Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, regulation

Noting the Department of Energy’s new proposal is critical to the manufactured home industry because “it is genuinely draconian and will have a drastically negative impact,” the Manufactured Housing for Regulatory Reform’s (MHARR) Mark Weiss, says its final adoption can be stopped with enough pushback. Commenting on a meeting at …

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MHI and MHARR Respond Differently to DOE’s Proposed Energy Standards

By / June 23, 2016 / Announcements, Business, home buyers, Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, regulation

In response to the Department of Energy’s proposed rules on energy standards for manufactured housing in the Federal Register, the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) says it worked closely with the DOE to try and avoid excessive costs to consumers that will outweigh benefits. The DOE based their recommendations on the …

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MHARR’s Mark Weiss Chides the DOE and MHI for their “Buddy System”

By / June 3, 2016 / home buyers, Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, People, Small Business

The Department of Energy (DOE) sent the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) a copy of the  proposed new energy standards rule before its official publication, leading MHProNews and MHLivingNews publisher L. A. “Tony” Kovach to contact M. Mark Weiss, the President and CEO of the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform …

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DOE “Crony Capitalist” Contracts Provide Smokescreen For Rouinous MH Regulation

By / May 18, 2016 / Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform

Washington, D.C., May 16, 2016 – Confirming long-standing suspicions of the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR), a 2015 document issued through the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) provides direct evidence of DOE’s abuse of supposed energy “research” awards, grants, contracts …

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What does collapsing Walmart, other retail sales mean for Manufactured Housing?

By / January 19, 2016 / Advocacy, Business, Communities, Company News, Economy, home buyers, Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, People, RV, Trends

Retail sales on the year fell to their lowest pace since 2009, climbing only 2.1 percent for the year, the smallest gain since the Great Recession ended, raising concerns about consumer spending going into 2016. As bloomberg informs MHProNews the 0.1 percent drop in Dec., 2015 followed a gain of …

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Wildfires Open Door to Flooding and Mudslides—if California does Get Rain

By / January 22, 2016 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes

Updating the story last reported Nov. 4, 2015 that MHProNews has been following concerning the clean-up and rebuild going on in the wake of the Valley and Butte wildfires in California, the new threat to the area, with all the underbrush and vegetation gone, is the possibility of flooding within …

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Former Head of Ginnie Mae does not Envision GSE Reform Soon

By / November 11, 2015 / Business, Finance, home buyers, Legal, Legislation, Manufactured and Modular Housing News

The former president and CEO of Ginnie Mae, Joseph Murin, said the Obama administration is not looking to recapitalize GSEs Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, preferring to leave them as a conservatorship from which funds can be extracted as needed. Also, he does not believe reform of the government-sponsored enterprises …

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MHARR says the DOE is Seeking Support for New Manufactured Home Energy Standards

By / June 11, 2015 / Advocacy, Business, Legal, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Manufactured Homes, regulation

The Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) tells MHProNews a Department of Energy (DOE) contractor, Navigant Consulting, is contacting producers of manufactured housing, especially smaller manufacturers, to obtain feedback on new proposed energy standards for manufactured housing. MHARR maintains the new standards are unnecessary and excessively costly, although they …

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Jobs Report Sends Dow Up; MHCV Does not share the Joy

By / May 8, 2015 / Business, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, Stocks

The addition of 233,000 jobs to the U S. economy, and the drop of the unemployment rate to 5.4 percent, the lowest level since 2008, spurred the Dow Jones Industrial Average to surge +267.05 points. Additionally, the unemployment rate of black males has fallen below ten percent for the first …

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MHARR Executives Meet With DOE Officials On Energy Rule

By / September 19, 2018 / Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform

An MHARR delegation, including Chairman John Bostick, Immediate-Past Chairman Edward Hussey, President Mark Weiss and Senior Advisor Danny Ghorbani, met on March 16, 2015 with U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Deputy Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency Dr. Kathleen Hogan, representatives of the DOE Office of General Counsel (OGC) and other …

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MHARR Comments on Aspects of DOE Energy Rule

By / September 19, 2018 / Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform

HARR, on March 13, 2015, filed comments (see, copy attached) in response to a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Request for Information (RFI) in connection with DOE’s development of manufactured housing energy standards under the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007. The DOE-RFI, published in the Federal Register on …

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MHARR Objects to DOE Energy Standards for Manufactured Housing

By / March 13, 2015 / Advocacy, Business, Legal, Legislation, Manufactured and Modular Housing News, regulation

The Department of Energy (DOE) Request for Information (RFI) dealing with the DOE’s development of manufactured housing energy standards and subsequent Solar Heat Gain Coefficient for MH has elicited a strong response from the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR). MHProNews has learned MHARR has objected to the DOE …

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Balanced Reporting? MS Tornadoes, Stick Built and Manufactured Homes

By / January 7, 2015 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

Manufactured home assistant retail manager Victor Frost says via an Industry Voices  OpEd what he thinks the other side of the recent tornado stories should be.  In a calm, collected analysis, Frost points out examples of what many would objectively see as media bias and slanted reporting. Frost shares comments on …

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New Year’s eve – MHCV slides again, as does oil and broader market – but 2014 overall good for investors

By / December 31, 2014 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

The Manufactured Housing Composite Value and most tracked MH stocks lost ground today. Brent crude, the global benchmark for oil, hovered around a new low of $56 a barrel, heading for its largest annual decline since 2008. Oil inventories declined more than expected last week.  CNN Money  points out that …

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Mary Landrieu’s defeat, what does it mean to Manufactured Housing?

By / December 8, 2014 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

On Saturday December 6, Mary Landrieu, a Louisiana Democrat was defeated by Bill Cassidy a U.S. House Republican. In the run-off race for the LA Senate seat, Cassidy’s win now means that the Republicans have secured a net gain of 9 Senate seats, giving them 54 senators to 46, and …

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What does MHARR’s Danny Ghorbani and MHI’s Leigh Abrams, Randy Rowe, Steve Adler and others have in common?

By / December 8, 2014 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

As was announced in a November Daily Business News  brief linked here, Danny Ghorbani, President and CEO of the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) is retiring. Writing in The Journal, Danny shares a look back and ahead. He thanks Journal publisher Jim Visser, his industry friends, MHARR colleagues …

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Incoming MHARR president calls on DOE Secretary to Reject Proposed MH Energy Standards

By / November 27, 2014 / Manufactured and Modular Housing News

M. Mark Weiss, JD, the incoming president for the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR), laments the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) stance on the proposed Department of Energy (DOE) standards for manufactured housing. The essence of MHARR’s position is that the DOE’s standards are far more costly than the …

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