In a release to MHProNews and others, the Washington, D.C. based Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) released perhaps the most blistering statement in years by that organization. The MHARR news item is in response to the Department of Energy (DOE) media release, shown below. MHProNews brought the item to MHARR’s attention, having copied them in an inquiry that aimed to give DOE an opportunity to clean up a terminology and error plagued release. That inquiry will be part of the additional information and MHProNews analysis and commentary that follows the DOE and MHARR releases, which follow in that sequence. Our daily business news market report and left-right bullet headlines follow this segment of today’s report.

The best way to appreciate the MHARR release is to see what it responded to, which is the DOE statement below. Note that readers should not rely on the DOE statement for accurate information on modern manufactured housing, as what follows will clarify.

Department of Energy

DOE Updates Mobile Home Efficiency Standards to Lower Household Energy Bills

MAY 18, 2022

New Initiative Will Save Owners and Renters $10 Billion on Utility Bills, Reduce Carbon Pollution, Ensure More Access to Affordable Mobile Homes

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today adopted new energy standards for manufactured housing — commonly referred to as single-section and multi-section mobile homes — that will help consumers save hundreds of dollars on their annual utility bills and slash carbon emissions by 80 million metric tons, which is equivalent to the energy use of over 10 million homes in one year. Once implemented, the new efficiency standards, which include updates to insulation and sealing requirements, will help bring the country closer to reaching President Biden’s goal of net-zero emissions by 2050.

“DOE’s new energy efficiency rules will help save the 17 million Americans residing in mobile homes up to $475 per year on average on their utility bills,” said U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm. “The rules will hold manufacturers of these U.S. homes to cost-saving efficiency standards, giving residents more comfortable living environments and a much-needed break on their annual utility costs, while delivering cleaner air for their communities.”

The new efficiency rules will require all new manufactured homes to meet standards for size and climate-dependent energy conservation measures based on the insulation and sealing requirements in the most recent version of the International Energy Conservation Code (IECC 2021). Compliance is required for new manufactured homes produced beginning one year after the rule is published in the Federal Register, approximately late May 2023. DOE was under a court order to update these standards by May 16, 2022.

According to DOE estimates from the final rule, individuals can expect to save on average $177 per year in single-section homes and $475 per year in multi-section homes on their utility bills. Cumulatively, consumers will save $551 million on utility bills each year and a total of $10 billion over the next 30 years. In the same 30-year window, DOE projects a reduction in carbon and methane emissions equivalent to the annual emissions of 11.7 million homes.

Purchasers of both single- and multi-section manufactured homes are expected to save more on their utility bills than the additional money that is added to their monthly mortgage, with single-section purchasers recouping the additional money purchasers put down up front to secure the loan (approximately $70) within 10 months. DOE adopted a tiered approach, with different standards for single- and multi-section manufactured homes, in order to balance the important objectives of energy efficiency, cost savings, upfront affordability, and housing supply challenges.

Additional Efficiency and Affordability Measures for Manufactured Homes 

In addition to the new efficiency rules, DOE is supporting the establishment of credit-enhancement mechanisms, such as loan-loss reserves, to drive down the cost of financing for manufactured housing and increase access to affordable housing. DOE will provide technical assistance and guidance, facilitate outreach to lenders and agencies, and work with state partners to develop replicable state models that ensure access to affordable, efficient manufactured homes.

DOE, in collaboration with the National Association of State Energy Officials, is also launching the Manufactured Home Energy Efficiency and Affordability Initiative to work with states and other partners in improving access to energy efficient manufactured homes across the United States, including tribal lands. The California Energy Commission, Colorado Energy Office, Kentucky Office of Energy Policy, Maine Governor’s Energy Office, Minnesota Department of Commerce Energy Division, Montana Energy Office, New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality Energy Office, South Carolina Energy Office – Office of Regulatory Staff, and West Virginia Department of Economic Development’s Office of Energy have already signed on to participate.

To increase transparency, DOE has created a consumer-focused website with information on energy efficient manufactured homes and financing options, including content on incentives, grants, and loan programs available through federal agencies, states, and others. The site includes links to resources for manufactured homebuyers who own or lease their land as well as those living in manufactured home communities, including resident owned cooperatives.

This action follows the release earlier this week of the Administration’s Housing Supply Action Plan, which includes legislative and administrative policies to boost supply and reduce costs for a number of housing types, such as manufactured housing.

DOE adopted a tiered approach, with different standards for single and multi-section manufactured homes, in order to balance the important objectives of energy efficiency, cost savings, upfront affordability, and housing supply challenges.

DOE’s Building Technologies Office implements minimum energy conservation standards for more than 60 categories of appliances and equipment. To learn more, visit the Appliance and Equipment Standards Program homepage.

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The MHARR response to the DOE release is as shown below.

 

DOE Resorts to Deception and Misdirection to Advance

Its Flawed Energy Rule for Manufactured Housing 

Washington, D.C., May 24, 2022 – The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), in a reprehensible news release announcing the publication of its baseless and destructive energy standards for HUD Code manufactured homes (copy attached), resorts to deception and distortion in a futile attempt to rationalize a rule that will needlessly add thousands of dollars to the cost of the nation’s leading source of affordable housing, and simultaneously exclude millions of lower and moderate-income Americans from the manufactured housing market and from homeownership altogether.

The Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) has been a consistent opponent of these fundamentally-flawed and baseless standards, as well as previous iterations proposed by DOE. Having refuted, moreover, the semblance of any basis whatsoever for such draconian mandates, MHARR once again calls on DOE to withdraw its final manufactured housing energy standards rule and consider significant revisions based on a legitimate process.

For the present, however, unable to legitimately claim that its standards will benefit manufactured homebuyers (or anyone other than its special interest allies), DOE’s deceitful May 18, 2022 “news” release, instead invents a non-existent “strawman” caricature of today’s modern, affordable and energy-efficient manufactured housing, which it proceeds to attack with an assortment of knowingly false and misleading assertions.

Most fundamentally, the DOE “news” release, in its title and elsewhere, intentionally and repeatedly mischaracterizes today’s modern manufactured homes as “mobile homes.” This despite the fact that HUD Code homes, under existing federal law, are specifically denominated and defined as “manufactured homes,” and have been referred-to as “manufactured homes” for decades. Modern, affordable “manufactured homes,” however, as reported by the U.S. Census Bureau, have lower energy consumption costs, on a whole home basis, than other types of homes. Consequently, to bootstrap its outrageous assertions and equally outrageous standards, DOE instead attacks a class of homes that has not existed for decades and that the industry, through hard work and millions of dollars in investment, has successfully surpassed.

Yet another “big lie” inherent in the disgraceful DOE “news” release is its willful failure to address the massive level of market exclusion that will result from purchase cost increases driven by its final standard. The DOE release, in a comment attributed to DOE Secretary, Jennifer Granholm, thus states: “DOE’s new energy efficiency rules will help save 17 million Americans residing in mobile homes up to $475 per year on … their utility bills.” Aside from the fact that significantly more than 17 million Americans currently reside in HUD Code manufactured homes, and the DOE energy standards, by law, have nothing to do with the existing homes owned by those residents, the reality is that millions of Americans who heretofore would have been able to afford and finance a manufactured home, will henceforth be excluded from the market due to the excessive cost and purchase price impact of the DOE standards. For these millions of Americans, quite simply, there will be – and by definition could not be – any utility cost savings whatsoever, because the purchase cost impact of the DOE standards will prevent them from ever being homeowners in the first place. DOE, however, chooses to willfully ignore this fact and intentionally seeks to distract from it in its “news” release.

Worse yet, and as predicted by MHARR, DOE, having now acted to undermine the inherent purchase price affordability of HUD Code manufactured homes, instead calls in its “news” release for at least part of that new cost burden to be borne by American taxpayers. The “news” release notes that DOE supports “legislative and administrative policies” and “the establishment of credit enhancement mechanisms, such as loan-loss reserves,” to “increase access to affordable housing.” So, having acted to undermine the inherent affordability of manufactured housing, DOE now seeks to impose those costs on American taxpayers in a manner that is wholly inconsistent with both the letter and intent of federal manufactured housing law.

The May 18, 2022 DOE “news” release thus confirms every negative element and consequence of the DOE “final” manufactured housing energy rule previously documented by MHARR (and vindicates MHARR’s consistent opposition to that rule), while seeking to mislead Americans, denigrate manufactured housing and expand homelessness, all in order to peddle baseless and disproven “climate” alarmism. This sham rule, having now been imposed by DOE without any valid basis, and pursuant to an illegitimate and corrupted process, must now be opposed by the industry through all appropriate means including, but not limited to targeted legal action.

The Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform is a Washington, D.C.-based national trade association representing the views and interests of independent producers of federally-regulated manufactured housing.

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On Monday, May 23, 2:07 PM, MHProNews sent the following inquiry to the DOE media contact.

DOE News,

We plan a report on the DOE release linked below.

https://www.energy.gov/articles/doe-updates-mobile-home-efficiency-standards-lower-household-energy-bills

There appears to be at least 3 factual errors in the statement quoted below.

“DOE’s new energy efficiency rules will help save the 17 million Americans residing in mobile homes up to $475 per year on average on their utility bills,” said U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm.

• The common estimated population of residents living in pre-HUD Code mobile homes and post-HUD Code manufactured homes are 22 million, not 17 million.
• Federal law has defined those homes made to the HUD Code standards as manufactured homes if they were built on or after June 15, 1976.
• It is commonly estimated that about 4 out of 5 homes built on a chassis (both pre- and post-HUD Code homes) are manufactured homes, only 1 out of 5 are properly mobile homes.

Against that backdrop, please explain how the ‘final rule’ will save existing mobile or manufactured homeowners money?”

DOE declined comment to that original and the follow up inquiry. This despite the fact that the follow up reminded the DOE that the Biden-Harris 2020 campaign website pledged that their administration would make federal agencies transparent and accountable.

Note that the plan was to begin with that initial inquiry, and then move into other problematic areas of their arguably flawed release.

The Masthead linked below has already debunked the notion that the Biden White House plan would advance the need for more affordable housing, much less authentically support  more manufactured housing. That occurred in the new fact-check, analysis, and report linked below.

Additionally, MHProNews teed up these Biden White House and DOE related issues as part of the Sunday report linked below.

The DOE website is replete with evidence of either ignorance or malicious statements about modern HUD Code manufactured homes. One more example is found on the federal taxpayer funded DOE webpage linked here.

 

Next up is our daily business news recap of yesterday evening’s market report, related left-right headlines, and manufactured housing connected equities.

The Business Daily Manufactured Home Industry Connected Stock Market Updates.  Plus, Market Moving Left leaning CNN and Right-leaning (Newsmax) Headlines Snapshot. While the layout of this daily business report has been evolving over time, several elements of the basic concepts used previously are still the same. For instance. The headlines that follow below can be reviewed at a glance to save time while providing insights across the left-right media divide. Additionally, those headlines often provide clues as to possible ‘market-moving’ news items.

 

Market Indicator Closing Summaries – Yahoo Finance Closing Tickers on MHProNews…

Headlines from left-of-center CNN Business – from the evening of 5.24.2022

• ‘Lunchflation’ is real
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• Gas, coffee, childcare and more: Returning to the office is costing us a fortune
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• Globalization is coming undone, and that’s a huge red flag
• Is the summer vacation boom over before it even began?
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• Bolsonaro fires Petrobras CEO who warned of diesel crisis
• Google’s new Street View camera is more portable (and looks weirdly cute)
• Coca-Cola is discontinuing Honest Tea
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• Our clothes are filling up landfills. This fashion brand says they have a solution
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• Johnny Depp, Amber Heard, and all of us
• Juneteenth ice cream found in a Walmart store in Raleigh, NC. Walmart stopped selling the product and apologized.
• Walmart apologizes for selling Juneteenth ice cream
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• Opinion: The US solar panel industry is on the verge of collapsing. Here’s how to prevent it
• RETAIL
• MUNCY, PENNSYLVANIA, UNITED STATES – 2022/03/19: Shoppers walk in front of a Target store at the Lycoming Crossing shopping plaza.
• Retailers just sounded an alarm on inflation. It’s worth heeding
• Century 21 is staging a comeback
• Kohl’s holds off barbarians at the gate… for now
• Best Buy has a new strategy to win bargain hunters
• Why stores always put candy and soda near the cash register
• DAVOS
• Davos is back and the world has changed. Have the global elite noticed?
• Global economy faces ‘its biggest test’ since WWII
• Central bankers say cryptos aren’t real currencies
• Watch Zelensky speak out on Russia in address
• Germany urges Hungary to agree to a Russian oil embargo

Headlines from right-of-center Newsmax 5.24.2022

• Biden Missed Chance to Revise Outdated Rules Behind Baby Formula Shortage
• Shelves typically stocked with baby formula sit mostly empty at a store in San Antonio earlier this month. A massive baby formula recall, combined with COVID-related supply chain problems, is getting most of the blame for the shortage that’s causing distress for many parents across the U.S. But the nation’s formula supply has long been vulnerable to this type of crisis, experts say. (AP)
• Four companies account for roughly 90% of the market: Abbott, Reckitt, Nestle and Perrigo, according to industry figures. That consolidation mirrors similar trends across the food industry. But infant formula wasn’t part of a Biden administration initiative last year spotlighting dangerously concentrated industries, including prescription drugs, airlines, hearing aids and internet services. [Full Story]
• Russian Invasion of Ukraine
• Putin Accused of ‘Blackmailing’ Food Supply by Stealing Ukrainian Grain
• Russia Launches All-Out Assault to Encircle Ukraine Troops in East
• Ukraine Looks for Ways to Get Its Grain Out
• Hungary Announces ‘State of Danger’ Ukraine War
• Putin, Russia Eye Prolonged War in Ukraine
• Kremlin Critic Browder: Squeeze Oligarchs’ Money Men
• George Soros: Ukraine May Be Start of World War Three
• Putin’s Own Men Discussing Who Will Replace Him
• Russian and Chinese Jets Conduct Joint Patrol
• Kissinger: Ukraine, Russia Must Negotiate an End to the War
• 200 Bodies Found in Mariupol Basement
• Biden: Leaders Navigating ‘Dark Hour’ After Ukraine Invasion
• Kremlin Foe Navalny Lambasts Putin’s ‘Stupid War’ in Ukraine
• More Russian Invasion of Ukraine
• Newsmax TV
• Paul: ‘Dangerous’ for Biden to Answer Foreign Policy Questions
• David Perdue: Will Back Kemp If It Means Defeating Stacey Abrams | video
• Hice: Georgia’s Voter Law Proving Successful | video
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• Border Patrol’s Judd: WH Using Too Many ‘Carveouts’ With Title 42 | video
• Cammack: Death Threats Grow After Formula Stockpiles Exposed | video
• Mike Carey: Biden’s Walk Back on Taiwan Remarks ‘Indicative’ of Administration Policies
• More Newsmax TV
• Newsfront
• Greta Van Susteren Joins Newsmax, Will Lead Nightly Lineup
• Newsmax announced today that veteran news anchor and broadcaster Greta Van Susteren will join the network as host of “The Record with Greta Van Susteren,” adding her three decades of experience in journalism to the rising cable channel…. [Full Story] Panel Recommends New Names for Fort Bragg, Other Army Bases That Commemorate Confederacy
• An independent commission on Tuesday recommended new names for nine [Full Story]
• Nasdaq Retreats as Weak Economic Data Stokes Recession Fears
• The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq finished in the red on Tuesday as worries [Full Story]
• Biden, White House in ‘Disarray’ Over Taiwan Policy
• America’s decades-old policy of maintaining a “strategic ambiguity” [Full Story] | Platinum Article
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• Several U.S. Bishops are backing the decision by San Francisco [Full Story]
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• Republican lawmakers in Indiana voted Tuesday to override the GOP [Full Story]
• Federal Court Revives ‘Insurrection’ Challenge to Rep. Cawthorn
• A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday issued a decision that could bolster [Full Story]
• FTC Launches Inquiry Into Infant Formula Shortage
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• Putin Accused of ‘Blackmailing’ Food Supply by Stealing Ukrainian Grain
• Some world leaders are accusing Russian President Vladimir Putin with [Full Story]
• Poll: Most Say Stricter Gun Control Won’t Prevent Mass Shootings
• In the wake of the Buffalo, New York, supermarket shootings where 10 [Full Story]
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• Biden Expected to Seek Closer Contact With House GOP If Republicans Win Midterms
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• Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, on Tuesday introduced new legislation that [Full Story]
• George Soros: Ukraine May Be Start of World War Three
• Billionaire financier George Soros said on Tuesday that Russia’s [Full Story]
• Cruz Wants Answers on Task Force From Homeland Secretary
• Republican Sen. Ted Cruz sent a letter Monday to Department of [Full Story]
• US New Home Sales Tumble in April
• Sales of new U.S. single-family homes fell more than expected in [Full Story]
• Kennedy Labels Biden’s Economic, Energy Policies a ‘Special Kind of Stupid’
• John Kennedy, R-La., took aim at the Biden administration’s [Full Story]
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• Rick Scott: Biden Still ‘Incompetent,’ ‘Incoherent’
• Rick Scott, R-Fla., unleashed a Twitter attack on President Joe [Full Story]
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• There’s been a dramatic increase in the incidence of fatty liver [Full Story]
• Poll: Biden Underwater on Every Issue Except COVID Handling
• President Joe Biden’s approval rating is under 50% on every issue [Full Story]
• US Hurricane Forecasters Predict 7th Year of Above-Average Atlantic Storms
• The Atlantic hurricane season is poised to deliver another round of [Full Story]
• PwC Survey: 1-in-5 to Change Jobs in 12 Months
• About one-in-five people are planning on changing jobs at some point [Full Story]
• CDC Tracking More Than 200 People in Massachusetts for Signs of Monkeypox
• The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is tracking more than [Full Story]
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• More than 150 members of a group calling itself “Patriotic [Full Story]
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• The vast majority of Americans whose job can be done remotely sayits [Full Story]
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• In a rebuke of President Joe Biden’s COVID vaccination mandates for [Full Story]
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• NY Fed Sees 3-Yr Balance Sheet Rundown to $5.9T
• The Fed’s stock of Treasury bonds and mortgage backed securities is projected to decline by roughly $2.5 trillion by mid-2025, to about $5.9 trillion, when the central bank’s run-off of assets is likely to be halted to maintain an adequate level of bank reserves…. [Full Story]
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• Stellantis, Samsung Plan Indiana Electric Car Battery Plant
• Fed Funds Rate Above 1.75% Too Restrictive: Guggenheim’s Minerd
• Peloton CEO: Stake Sale Unlikely as Cash Position ‘Pretty Comfortable’
• More Finance
• Health
• Repeat, Year-Round Infections With COVID-19 May Become the Norm
• COVID-19 might be easing into a new status as a widely circulating and somewhat harsher version of the common cold, experts say – a virus that folks could contract repeatedly, even if they were recently infected. “[SARS-CoV-2] is destined to join four of its family members…… [Full Story]
• Study: Medical Marijuana Reduces Pain, Depression, Increases Life Quality in Cancer Patients
• US Hospitals Overwhelmed With Teens in Mental Crisis
• CDC: Re-isolate If COVID Recurs After Taking Paxlovid
• US Safety Rules, Tariffs Behind Baby Formula Shortage

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Manufactured Housing Industry Investments Connected Equities Closing Tickers

Some of these firms invest in manufactured housing, or are otherwise connected, but may do other forms of investing or business activities too.

• • • • • • • • • • • • • • NOTE: The chart below includes the Canadian stock, ECN, which purchased Triad Financial Services, a manufactured home industry lender
                          • NOTE: Drew changed its name and trading symbol at the end of 2016 to Lippert (LCII).
                          • NOTE: Deer Valley was largely taken private, say company insiders in a message to MHProNews on 12.15.2020, but there are still some outstanding shares of  the stock from the days when it was a publicly traded firm.  Thus, there is still periodic activity on DVLY.

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