Manufactured Housing Executives Council (MHEC) held a conference call on August 25, 2017 regarding HUD interaction with the International Code Council (ICC).
MHEC, as many industry leaders know, is made up of state association leaders, plus a presence from the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) and the Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) too.
In a release, MHARR tells MHProNews that HUD’s manufactured housing program is in the midst of an ongoing power grab.
MHARR makes three key bullets about HUD, which are:
“(1) claims authority to override state-law installation standards (based on Appendix E or any other source) which it considers to be less strict or demanding than the federal installation standards for “default” states;
(2) claims authority to override local installation standards based on Appendix E which it considers to be less strict or demanding than the federal installation standards;
(3) refuses to preempt local installation mandates that either exceed the federal installation standards or have been used as a pretext to exclude HUD Code homes from certain jurisdictions, based on the Department’s position and contention that the federal installation standards are not preemptive.”
MHARR further points at MHI as being tacitly complicit in this problem, saying: “All of this ultimately goes back to HUD’s 2004-2005 decision (opposed by MHARR but tacitly accepted by MHI) to re-codify the federal installation standards outside of the preemptive Part 3280 Construction and Safety Standards.”
The entire MHARR release, including their plan to create a fact sheet for future use on this issue, are linked here. ## (News.)
Related from a MHEC member:
- JD Harper – Manufactured Housing Assoc Exec Director – Sounds Off on Zoning & HUD Failure to Enforce Preemption
- Harper – Thank You Rev Donald Tye, Fighting for Enhanced Preemption of Manufactured Homes
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