News from MHARR
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 In This Report: September 8, 2010
- Agencies Resist Consumer Financing Mandates
- New Actions to Downgrade Consensus Committee
- Actions to Expand In-Plant Regulation
- HUD Program in Dire Need of New Contractor
- Costly Roof Truss Rule – On-Site Rule Needs Changes
- HUD Plans For September COSAA Meeting
- Costly Energy Rules Should Be Deferred
- "Frost-Free" Design Questions
- FHA Raises Eligibility Standards For Most Mortgages
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In response to numerous inquiries that MHARR has received in recent weeks, industry members should be aware that the HUD manufactured housing program has recently modified the "Frequently Asked Questions" (FAQ) section of its internet website. The FAQ questions and answers now correspond with, repeat and mirror HUD assertions contained in a June 22, 2010 letter to Congress (download copy), which purport to justify and rationalize its failure, over the course of ten years, to fully and properly implement key reform aspects of the Manufactured Housing Improvement Act of 2000.
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MHARR's comprehensive comments in response to the proposed rule on "On-Site Completion of Construction of Manufactured Homes" published by HUD on June 23, 2010.
MHARR, as with its comments on proposed rules concerning the "Duty to Serve Underserved Markets" and "Test Procedures for Roof Trusses", has prepared and filed these comments at an early stage in the rulemaking process so that they are available as a model, basis, or support, as needed, for individual comments filed by industry members. Comments in response to the proposed rule must be filed no later than August 23, 2010.
To learn more, or for a copy of the proposed rule, please see the complete post in the INdustry Voices blog. |
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Attached, for your information, review and use, are MHARR's comments in response to the proposed rule on "Test Procedures for Roof Trusses" published by HUD on June 16, 2010. MHARR has prepared and filed these comments at an early stage in the rulemaking process so that they can be used as a model, basis, or support, as needed, for industry members who wish to submit their own comments. Comments in response to the proposed rule must be filed no later than August 16, 2010. Specific instructions for filing comments either electronically or via mail delivery are contained in the Federal Register notice at 75 Federal Register No. 115, June 16, 2010, page 34065, which can be accessed through the internet. |
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Washington, D.C., July 20, 2010 – The Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) has asked the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Dr. Steven Chu, to delay the development and implementation of costly new energy regulations that would have a devastating impact on an already ailing manufactured housing industry and its mostly lower and moderate-income American families.
Under the Energy Conservation and Security Act of 2007 (EISA), responsibility for the regulation of energy conservation in manufactured homes was shifted from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) - which comprehensively regulates manufactured housing construction and safety based on a careful statutorilymandated balance between regulation and cost to consumers -- and transferred to DOE. The legislation directs DOE to establish new manufactured housing energy standards, by regulation, within four years of its enactment, based on the mandates of the International Energy Conservation Code (IECC). |
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