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November 21, 2017 – H.R. 1699 to be Voted on by U.S. House of Representatives Next Week

The United States House of Representatives is expected to vote next week on H.R. 1699, the Preserving Access to Manufactured Housing Act.

The bill addresses federal regulations implementing the Dodd-Frank Act that have jeopardized access to manufactured housing financing, and as a result disrupted the market. Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) data shows that consumers have been shut out of the market for manufactured housing because CFPB regulations have caused financing to be less available for manufactured homes.

Please contact your Representative and ask them to vote in favor of H.R. 1699, the Preserving Access to Manufactured Housing Act.

With MHI’s advocacy page, making this request of your Member of Congress is easy. Click here and follow the simple steps on MHI’s website. The email to your Representative has already been composed – all you have do is insert your home address and click submit!

Please give this your immediate attention and send it along to others in your organization and everyone else you know in the industry urging them to do the same.

If you have any questions, please contact MHI’s Government Affairs Department at 703-229-6208 or [email protected].

September 21, 2017
The U.S. House of Representative has, in effect, told HUD to STOP its overreach. MHI is celebrating a unanimous vote by the House to accept the Barr Amendments which specifically prohibit HUD from using any of the funds made available by Congress in Fiscal Year 2018 to implement, administer, or enforce three HUD actions. Those actions are: 1) the regulation of garages and carports; 2) frost free foundation requirements; and 3) onerous new requirements of the on-site completion of construction. Read the amendments herehref://http://amendments-rules.house.gov/amendments/barr824171353405340.pdf.

We are assured that there will be changes at HUD soon (expected at the beginning of October). The end game for MHI is re-organization at HUD. Because the Office of Manufactured Housing is almost “buried” at HUD, it is taking time for us to see the rollbacks in overregulation that others are seeing under the new administration. We are under the Office of Risk Management, under the FHA, under Secretary Carson. A recent nomination at the FHA was an important event we needed before we will see change.