{"id":19760,"date":"2021-10-04T12:14:17","date_gmt":"2021-10-04T17:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/?p=19760"},"modified":"2021-10-05T06:52:49","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T11:52:49","slug":"hud-has-failedmanufactured-housing-manufactured-housing-institute-cavco-exec-hits-hud-failure-to-enforce-manufactured-housing-improvement-act-enhanced-preemption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.manufacturedhomepronews.com\/masthead\/hud-has-failedmanufactured-housing-manufactured-housing-institute-cavco-exec-hits-hud-failure-to-enforce-manufactured-housing-improvement-act-enhanced-preemption\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cHUD has Failed\u2026Manufactured Housing\u201d-Manufactured Housing Institute, Cavco Exec Hits HUD Failure to Enforce Manufactured Housing Improvement Act, \u201cEnhanced Preemption,\u201d more \u2013 HUD, Competing Claims \u2013 Facts & Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In certified “truth in testimony<\/strong><\/span>” to a U.S. House subcommittee for Financial Services, Manuel \u201cManny\u201d Santana, P.E., Director of Engineering for Cavco Industries, made pages of sometimes strongly worded statements that blast HUD for having \u201cfailed<\/strong><\/span>\u201d \u201cmanufactured housing.<\/strong><\/span>\u201d That claims of failure, per Santana on behalf of the Manufactured Housing Institute and obviously for his publicly traded company, was due to failure by HUD to follow the Manufactured Housing Improvement Act of 2000 (MHIA or 2000 Reform law). The complete statement by Santana on behalf of MHI in many respects might superficially seem to be similar to those delivered by the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR). Both, on paper, have made similar statements on the 2000 Reform law, enhanced preemption, financing, and other issues. Herein below there are also statements made on behalf of MHARR, the one from Santana for MHI, and one that was made by an attorney for HUD\u2019s Office of Manufactured Housing Programs (OMHP).\u00a0 These should be considered not just for what was said, which are important. Their respective words must also be considered in the light of what followed their respective remarks. Because MHI\u2019s CEO Lesli Gooch, Ph.D., MHARR\u2019s President and CEO, Mark Weiss, J.D., have each said more recently that HUD continues to fail to enforce the Manufactured Housing Improvement Act of 2000 (MHIA or 2000 Reform law). Given that zoning barriers was an issue raised with HUD Secretary Marcia Fudge Key provisions in the MHIA included \u201cenhanced preemption<\/strong><\/span>\u201d for manufactured homes with respect to local zoning barriers. There is agreement that is not occurring. There is also agreement that a \u201cnon-career administrator<\/strong><\/span>\u201d for the MHIA program has not been properly implemented, even though that is also required by the 2000 Reform Law. Other issues raised below by these various sources including finance, energy, and more. But an attorney for HUD testified to Congress that \u201cenhanced preemption<\/strong><\/span>\u201d is<\/em> being enforced, and that HUD is working to enforce the various aspects of the federal law. That attorney, Henry S. Czauski, J.D., has since left HUD and per his LinkedIn profile, now does consulting. But Czauski\u2019s claim has been contradicted by another former HUD attorney, William \u201cBill\u201d Matchneer.<\/p>