{"id":310,"date":"2010-10-31T23:00:36","date_gmt":"2010-11-01T04:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/industryvoices\/?p=310"},"modified":"2011-02-07T14:32:56","modified_gmt":"2011-02-07T20:32:56","slug":"letter-from-congressman-bart-stupak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/industryvoices\/letter-from-congressman-bart-stupak\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter from Congressman Bart Stupak"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 575px; margin: 15px auto;\">\n<img fetchpriority=\"high\" src=\"\/blogs\/industryvoices\/img\/101101\/stupak-letter-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"575\" height=\"281\" \/><img src=\"\/blogs\/industryvoices\/img\/101101\/stupak-letter-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"575\" height=\"272\" \/><img src=\"\/blogs\/industryvoices\/img\/101101\/stupak-letter-3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"575\" height=\"204\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p><b>Editor\u2019s Note:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>This letter from Congressman Bart Stupak was submitted to us by:<\/p>\n<p>Mr. George Spanos<br \/>\nPO Box 370<br \/>\nPetoskey, Michigan 49770<\/p>\n<p>The letter is used with his permission. Mr. Spanos also requested a \u2018plug\u2019 for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michhome.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Michigan Manufactured Housing Association (MMHA)<\/a>, which we are pleased hereby to do.<\/p>\n<p>A number of points could be made about this letter, such as: This is this particular congressman\u2019s perspective, others might see this differently.<\/p>\n<p>What is certain is that neither the Duty To Serve (DTS) nor FHA Title 1 Reform has manifested itself in the fashion that is beneficial at this point to the manufactured housing industry.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, the SAFE Act, also part of HERA, has had an impact on the manufactured housing industry, and most would assert that it has not been a positive one.<\/p>\n<p>Please see related topics to this subject at these links:<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"\/blogs\/industryvoices\/mhi-pac-and-the-upcoming-midterm-elections\/\">MHI PAC and the Upcoming Midterm Elections<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/blogs\/tonykovach\/the-mid-term-elections-and-manufactured-housing\/\">The Mid-Term Elections and Manufactured Housing<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/blogs\/yertle-the-turtle-and-manufactured-housing\/\">Yertle the Turtle and Manufactured Housing<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/blogs\/industryvoices\/in-the-midterm-elections-are-we-feeding-the-hand-that-bites-us\/\">In the Midterm Elections, are we feeding the hand that bites us?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Finally, a reminder about our Editorial Policy. We are open to all perspectives on Industry related topics. Asking that they be properly (respectfully) expressed. One good way to get a discussion going is to look objectively at a topic and to consider a variety of viewpoints.<\/p>\n<p>Besides carrying the most tips and training content and the most manufactured housing industry news, and modular or prefab home industry news, we offer this Industry Blog and our Disqus system as means to share your views or comments with the Industry at large.<\/p>\n<p><i>Readers are always welcome and encouraged to sound off on industry relevant topics, either by posting appropriate comments via our Disqus system, or by submitting their own article, which can be posted on the Industry Voices Guest Blog. Please see the <a href=\"\/about-us\">About Us<\/a> page for article submission details.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Your calls and emails are always welcome too.<\/i> # #<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editor\u2019s Note: This letter from Congressman Bart Stupak was submitted to us by: Mr. George Spanos PO Box 370 Petoskey, Michigan 49770 The letter is &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"ast-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/industryvoices\/letter-from-congressman-bart-stupak\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Letter from Congressman Bart Stupak<\/span> Read More \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[270,15,125,268,3,13,269,211,272,273,271],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Letter from Congressman Bart Stupak | Industry Voices<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/industryvoices\/letter-from-congressman-bart-stupak\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Letter from Congressman Bart Stupak | Industry Voices\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Editor\u2019s Note: This letter from Congressman Bart Stupak was submitted to us by: Mr. George Spanos PO Box 370 Petoskey, Michigan 49770 The letter is &hellip; 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