“Worst of All Worlds,” “HUD’s Tortured Approach to Installation and Federal Preemption”

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Manufactured Housing Executives Council (MHEC) held a conference call on August 25, 2017 regarding HUD interaction with the International Code Council (ICC).

MHEC, as many industry leaders know, is made up of state association leaders, plus a presence from the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) and the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) too.

In a release, MHARR tells MHProNews that HUD’s manufactured housing program is in the midst of an ongoing power grab.

MHARR makes three key bullets about HUD, which are:

(1)   claims authority to override state-law installation standards (based on Appendix E or any other source) which it considers to be less strict or demanding than the federal installation standards for “default” states;

(2)   claims authority to override local installation standards based on Appendix E which it considers to be less strict or demanding than the federal installation standards;

(3)  refuses to preempt local installation mandates that either exceed the federal installation standards or have been used as a pretext to exclude HUD Code homes from certain jurisdictions, based on the Department’s position and contention that the federal installation standards are not preemptive.”

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MHARR further points at MHI as being tacitly complicit in this problem, saying:  “All of this ultimately goes back to HUD’s 2004-2005 decision (opposed by MHARR but tacitly accepted by MHI) to re-codify the federal installation standards outside of the preemptive Part 3280 Construction and Safety Standards.”

The entire MHARR release, including their plan to create a fact sheet for future use on this issue, are linked here. ## (News.)

Related from a MHEC member:

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