As you are already aware, the House of Representatives Subcommittee on Insurance, Housing and Community Opportunity held an oversight hearing on February 1, 2012 specifically focusing on HUD’s implementation of the Manufactured Housing Improvement Act of 2000. The hearing, which has been a key objective of MHARR’s intensive engagement with …
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Washington, D.C., February 1, 2012 – A House of Representatives subcommittee, reacting to a nearly 90% decline in manufactured housing production over the past decade, questioned officials of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) at a February 1, 2012 hearing on the Department’s failure to fully and properly …
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Washington, D.C., January 5, 2012 – The Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) reports that according to official statistics compiled on behalf of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the manufactured housing rebound evident in recent months continued and strengthened during November 2011, posting its fourth …
A delegation of MHARR Board officials and staff met on December 14, 2011 with Government National Mortgage Association (GNMA) President Theodore W. Tozer and other senior GNMA executives to address GNMA’s securitization requirements for Federal Housing Administration (FHA) Title I manufactured housing loan originators and the negative unintended consequences of …
Productive MHAAR- GNMA opens window of opportunity on FHA Read More
As was explained and detailed at the November 4, 2011 MHARR Board of Directors meeting, MHARR is continuing to target and aggressively press three key pending regulatory and program-related issues administratively with HUD — (1) the HUD-Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) fire sprinkler standard accepted by the Manufactured Housing Consensus Committee …
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Washington, D.C., December 7, 2011 – The Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) reports that according to official statistics compiled on behalf of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the manufactured housing rebound evident in recent months continued and expanded during October 2011, posting its third …
The Chairmen of the House Financial Services Committee and the Insurance, Housing and Community Opportunity Subcommittee have asked the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to conduct a thorough examination of certain key aspects of the HUD manufactured housing program. With the introductory-level November 29, 2011 field hearing on “The State of …
MHARR and the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) acting jointly as The Coalition to Advance Manufactured Housing (Coalition), held a conference call on November 22, 2011 with FHA Commissioner Carol Galante and other HUD officials. The purpose of call was to follow-up on the three specific agreed issues (i.e., easing FHA …
Washington, D.C., November 18, 2011 – Both houses of Congress, on November 17, 2011, passed a conference committee report on 2012 appropriations that would cut the budget of the HUD manufactured housing program by more than half. This action represents the culmination a year-long MHARR effort to subject the runaway …
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: MHARR (202) 783-4087 HUD CODE PRODUCTION REBOUND CONTINUES Washington, D.C., November 9, 2011 – The Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) reports that according to official statistics compiled on behalf of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), manufactured housing production continued to rebound …
In This Report: MHCC Meeting — Exclusive Report and Analysis MHCC Recomends Conditional Sprinkler StandardMHCC Accepts Further Erosion of its RoleMHCC Recommends de Facto Accessibility Standards Summary and Conclusions MHCC Accepts Conditional Sprinkler Standard In a move that could ultimately open the …
MHARR Washington Update — Report and Analysis October 21, 2011 Read More
On September 22, 2011, a joint delegation of MHARR and MHI-member executives and staff met with Ms. Carol Galante, the new Acting HUD Federal Housing Commissioner-Assistant Secretary for Housing. As reported previously by MHARR, Ms. Galante, formerly a HUD Deputy Assistant Secretary responsible for multi-family housing, was appointed to this …
Washington, D.C., September 14, 2011 – The Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) has released a complete set of ten Fact Sheets which define specific key reforms of the Manufactured Housing Improvement Act of 2000 that have not been fully and properly implemented by the Department of Housing and …
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: MHARR (202) 783-4087 Manufactured Housing Production Decline Persists Washington, D.C., September 7, 2011 – The Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) reports that according to official statistics compiled on behalf of the U.S. …
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“Pathway Paved Toward Progress” by Danny Ghorbani, read all about it in the Industry Voices Guest Blog.
As a follow-up to our previous report, dated August 4, 2011, regarding a biased and flawed study entitled “Manufactured Home Fires – July 2011,”published by the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) and distributed to members of the Manufactured Housing Consensus Committee (MHCC), attached, for your review and information, are copies …
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The Regulatory Enforcement Subcommittee of the Manufactured Housing Consensus Committee (MHCC) held a telephone conference call meeting on August 17, 2011. The meeting did not feature votes on any substantive issues, as there are no current pending regulatory matters that HUD has either brought or assigned to the subcommittee, under …
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Attached for your review and information is a copy of the National Fire Protection Association’s (NFPA) latest (July 2011) report on fire in manufactured homes, as well as a copy of self-explanatory August 3, 2011 letter sent by MHARR to NFPA president James Shannon, disputing the substance of this biased …
Washington, D.C., August 5, 2011 – The Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) reports that according to official statistics compiled on behalf of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), manufactured housing production continues to decline in 2011. Just-released statistics show that in June 2011, HUD Code …
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: MHARR (202) 783-4087 MHARR Presses for Accountability on HUD Program Finances Washington, D.C., July 26, 2011 – The Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) continues to press Congress to hold the federal manufactured housing program at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development …
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