Preface. Today’s report will feature several new insights. But it is helpful to understand those new statements published this week in the proper framework. Because it was several state manufactured housing executives who previously informed MHProNews of the strong-arm tactics deployed by Tim Williams of 21st Mortgage, when he purportedly …
Washington, D.C., April 30, 2019 – The Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) in an April 24, 2019 communication to U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary, Ben Carson ( copy attached ), has called on the Department to federally preempt local zoning ordinances which discriminatorily exclude manufactured …
MHARR SEEKS HUD STUDY AND ANALYSIS OF ZONING DISCRIMINATION AGAINST MANUFACTURED HOUSING Washington, D.C., April 8, 2019 – The Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR), in an April 4, 2019 meeting with HUD policy, analysis and research officials, called on the Department to conduct nationwide research – and follow-up …
HUD Study, Analysis of Zoning Discrimination Against Manufactured Housing Sought Read More
The Department of Housing and Urban Development, on March 20, 2019, held the latest in a series of “HUDdle” conferences with invited HUD-program stakeholders. The conferences, which are an initiative of — and hosted by — HUD Secretary Ben Carson, focus on emerging issues at the Department, including, but not …
Programing Notice: the Arlington, VA based Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) is in flux, as some new and exclusive upcoming reports will reflect. That noted, yesterday MHI sent out the following to their members. An analysis and commentary will follow. Senate Appropriations Committee Calls on Localities to Consider Manufactured Housing …
Manufactured Housing Institute Issues Housing Alert on Local Zoning Read More
At MHProNews, its part of our code to present an accurate presentation of a given topic. We also believe in giving credit where it is due. That’s putting the principle of the ‘separating the wheat from the chaff’ to work. With that in mind, the following is an article from …
Well, the good news is that the debilitating zoning problem faced by the HUD Code manufactured housing industry and its consumers has apparently evaporated into thin air. That’s right. On May 15, 2019, MHARR invited state manufactured housing associations around the country to provide it with particularly egregious, actionablecases of …
“The Incredible Shrinking Zoning Problem.”-September 2019 MHARR Issues and Perspectives Read More
As a new report planned for later today will reflect, there are several reasons to believe that affordable housing – and thus to a lesser extent, manufactured homes – will be a hotter national topic for at least the next 14 months. Why? Because the 2020 race for the White …
The headline should be understood as a pull quote from what follows below. It is also an example of biting sarcasm from the keyboard of Mark Weiss, J.D., President and CEO of the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR). Some pull quotes from what follows from Wiess …
Examining “Incredible Shrinking Zoning Problem” for Manufactured Homes Read More
The Washington, D.C. based Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) released a 5 topic update late this afternoon. The following are some of the pull-quotes from the first of those snapshots. “…de facto 40-year-plus monopoly…” “The [Manufactured Housing Improvement Act of 2000], moreover, was designed to assure a …
In June 2019, Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Ben Carson was involved in several video interviews that spanned the left-right media spectrum. He did local news, HUD videos, as well as interviews with those who would spotlight his concerns, analysis, and proposed solutions for the affordable housing crisis. …
Washington, D.C., May 15, 2019 – With manufactured housing producers, retailers and communities offering their best homes (and related consumer protection) ever, and in light of the failure of the ostensible representation of the industry’s post-production sector to fully and effectively advance the marketing, consumer financing and, most importantly, the …
MHARR Launches “Fighting Discriminatory Zoning Mandates” Manufactured Housing Project Read More
Washington, D.C., April 30, 2019 – The Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) in an April 24, 2019 communication to U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary, Ben Carson (copy attached), has called on the Department to federally preempt local zoning ordinances which discriminatorily exclude manufactured homes regulated …
Among the sources for the report that follows are MHEC, MHI, and their members. Let’s begin by pondering MHI’s page on zoning, which has no date on their article/post. That is being provided in its entirety below under fair use guidelines for media under this fact check and analysis. …
Nature abhors a vacuum. That axiom is true in science, as well as in issues of pragmatic leadership. In a communique to the manufactured housing industry’s dozens of state association executives, the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) outlined their plan to address the “moral obligation” to fix the …
According to key “congressional supporters of the 2000 reform law” in a letter to HUD said that “…changes to the law [the Manufactured Housing Improvement Act of 2000] give “HUD the legal authority to preempt local requirements or restrictions which discriminate against the siting of manufactured homes … simply because …
It will be recalled for the sake of new readers that the Daily Business News on MHProNews has been documenting cases of manufactured homes being limited, excluded, and/or discriminated against in zoning and placement practices by local jurisdictions for several years. That is so, despite the wide body of evidence …
MHARR SEEKS HUD STUDY AND ANALYSIS OF ZONING DISCRIMINATION AGAINST MANUFACTURED HOUSING Washington, D.C., April 8, 2019 – The Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR), in an April 4, 2019 meeting with HUD policy, analysis and research officials, called on the Department to conduct nationwide research – and follow-up …
HUD Study, Analysis of Zoning Discrimination Against Manufactured Housing Sought Read More
The Department of Housing and Urban Development, on March 20, 2019, held the latest in a series of “HUDdle” conferences with invited HUD-program stakeholders. The conferences, which are an initiative of — and hosted by — HUD Secretary Ben Carson, focus on emerging issues at the Department, including, but not …
There are on- and off-the-record statements that will follow. While the Daily Business News on MHProNews talks with industry professionals by phone on a regular basis too, our preference in using comments is to get the person to send their statements in an email, for our mutual accuracy. There …
