{"id":2609,"date":"2016-08-25T03:51:22","date_gmt":"2016-08-25T08:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/industryvoices\/?p=2609"},"modified":"2016-08-25T04:15:59","modified_gmt":"2016-08-25T09:15:59","slug":"discrimination-zoning-and-disparate-impact-on-manufactured-homes-owners-prospects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/industryvoices\/discrimination-zoning-and-disparate-impact-on-manufactured-homes-owners-prospects\/","title":{"rendered":"Discrimination, Zoning and Disparate Impact on Manufactured Homes, Owners, Prospects"},"content":{"rendered":"

The discriminatory exclusion of manufactured homes by local governments is a major problem for the industry and consumers.\u00a0 It artificially stunts industry growth, while it unfairly deprives Americans of access to the nation’s most affordable housing — effectively excluding\u00a0lower and moderate-income\u00a0citizens from entire communities.<\/p>\n

While this phenomenon is dressed-up as “zoning” by those on the other side of the issue — in part because the federal government has historically been reluctant to interfere in local “zoning” matters —\u00a0we<\/u>\u00a0need to be clear about what is\u00a0actually<\/u>\u00a0going on,\u00a0in the language we use to refer to it, and how we address\u00a0it.<\/p>\n

The reality —\u00a0in many, if not most cases — is that “zoning” is simply a fig leaf for what amounts to discrimination; discrimination against our homes to be sure, but, more importantly, discrimination against the people who buy them, own them and live in them.<\/p>\n

\"MMarkWeissJDMHARRCEOPresident-ManufacturedHousingAssociationRegulatoryReform\"<\/p>\n

As\u00a0MHARR has stressed before, there have never been more\u00a0tools available to the industry and consumers to address this issue at — and beyond — HUD.\u00a0 These include not only the enhanced preemption of the Manufactured Housing Improvement Act of 2000, but HUD’s new rules on affirmatively furthering fair housing and\u00a0the recent Supreme Court decision allowing discrimination claims to be pursued based on evidence of “disparate impact.” \u00a0##<\/p>\n

(Editor’s note<\/span>:<\/em><\/strong> This was the first for publication commentary sent in the wake of the Daily Business News<\/em><\/strong> report on a discriminatory zoning case, linked here<\/a>. Two more Op-Eds on zoning are linked here<\/a> and here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

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Mark Weiss
\nPresident & CEO
\nManufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR)
\n1331 Pennsylvania Ave. N.W., Suite 512
\nWashington, D.C. 20004
\nPhone:\u00a0202\/783-4087<\/a>
\nFax:\u00a0202\/783-4075<\/a>
\nEmail:\u00a0MHARRDG@AOL.COM<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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