With the continuing rapid decline of the HUD Code manufactured housing industry as a direct consequence of the near-total unavailability of purchase-money financing for consumers, through either public or private sources, job number one for the industry must be to ensure the implementation — as quickly as possible – of laws already on the books that offer new and expanded sources of consumer financing.
It appears that April 14, 2010 could be an important date for the housing and housing finance industries. In an April 14, 2010 announcement issued under the joint auspices of the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Department of the Treasury (copy attached) — as further explained and detailed in related testimony by HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan before the House Committee on Financial Services (copy attached) — the Obama Administration has launched a process designed to bring about changes to both the public and private aspects of consumer home financing.
Recent reports regarding changes in the management of the HUD manufactured housing program have led to some confusion within the industry, warranting an analysis and evaluation by MHARR of all available information — in light of decisions made at the Association’s March 2010 membership meeting — with the following preliminary conclusions.
Attached for your information and review is a copy of written testimony submitted by MHARR at a March 11, 2010 hearing of the House Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity regarding the future of the
Attached is draft field guidance for IPIAs to use in conducting Plant certifications or certification updates. If the guidance is followed and the IPIA has made on-going observations and records as to the manufacturer’s implementation of the revised QA or QC procedures, the IPIA will reduce the time and effort …
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As reported earlier in the February 23, 2010 MHARR Washington Update on the recent meeting between MHARR member executives and senior officials of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), attached for your information and review is a copy of the proposed 2010-2011 Enterprise Affordable Housing Goals published by FHFA in the Federal Register on February 26, 2010.
Washington, D.C., February 18,2010 – Prompted by the continuing refusal of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to appoint a non-career Administrator for the HUD manufactured housing program as provided by Congress in the Manufactured Housing Improvement Act of 2000, the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) has prepared
On Feb 8, 2010 MHARR President Danny Ghorbani sent a letter to HUD Assistant Secretary for Housing David Stevens regrading continued deterioration of consumer financing and the Federal Manufactured Housing Program. Click here to download the PDF of Danny’s letter to Commissioner Stevens.
HUD INSENSITIVITY TOWARD CONSUMERS AND INDUSTRY
HUD MHCC ACTION SHOWS CONTEMPT FOR CONGRESS
NEGATIVE IMPACTS OF NO ADMINISTRATOR DOCUMENTED
INDUSTRY WEAKNESS ON PREEMPTION CONTINUES
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Through an unheralded announcement in the Federal Register on February 4, 2010 (see, below), HUD is delaying the implementation of a key improvement to the FHA Title I and Title II manufactured housing loan insurance programs.
Washington, D.C. February 3, 2010 — According to a statement released by the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR), In addition to the rapid march of the HUD program back to its pre-2000 practices, approach and excesses, the industry and consumers of affordable housing continue to be faced with
Washington, D.C., January 29, 2010 — The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has named five new members of the Manufactured Housing Consensus Committee (MHCC) and has released revised MHCC bylaws that would give HUD regulators veto power over the composition of MHCC subcommittees, where much of the MHCC‘s most important substantive works take place.
Pressed by a growing number of inquiries from members of Congress expressing concern over the accelerating deterioration of the
In addition to the rapid march of the HUD program back to its pre-2000 practices, approach and excesses, the industry and consumers of affordable housing are also now faced with
Grassroots industry concern over the erosion of federal preemption is wellfounded, as a combination of HUD regulators, industry enablers and research consultants continue to
Shown below for your review and information is a copy of a self-explanatory note from J.D. Harper, Executive Director of AMHA, regarding the latest status of these lots (containing manufactured home, RV and park model units) as of today.
Attached for your information and review is a copy of a January 13, 2010 letter from MHARR to the Acting Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), Edward DeMarco, following-up on the
HUD Code manufacturers were recently warned by a knowledgeable source — HUD’s monitoring contractor – that the production oversight changes they are now being pressured to accept on a supposedly “voluntary” basis are only the “tip of the iceberg,” with more to come. Of course, MHARR has been sounding the same alarm, with increasing urgency, since May 2008, when HUD first
Attached (Download Here), for your information and review, is a copy of a self-explanatory letter sent today to HUD Assistant Secretary David H. Stevens regarding a mass auction of FEMA-owned manufactured homes that were originally purchased as temporary emergency housing for hurricane-damaged areas of the Gulf Coast.
Attached for your review, consideration and input is a proposed revision to section 3282.8(g) of the Procedural and Enforcement Regulations (PER) that HUD has submitted to the Manufactured Housing Consensus Committee (MHCC). This language is reproduced exactly as provided by HUD.
