ACTION ALERT: Your Voice is Needed as the Senate Considers a Major Housing Package

The U.S. Senate is preparing to consider a broad housing package that includes both important opportunities for manufactured housing and language that could unintentionally cause serious harm to the industry if not corrected.

Draft legislation implementing the President’s policy on institutional investment in single‑family housing is circulating as part of this package.

MHI is actively engaged with the White House, Treasury, HUD and Congress to ensure the language is clarified before Senate consideration. We have made significant progress and the latest draft circulating includes an exclusion for manufactured housing. We need your help to ensure the final bill retains this exemption language.

Here’s the immediate issue:

The institutional investor ban on single-family housing must clearly distinguish fee-simple homeownership from manufactured homes located in land‑lease communities. Absent that clarity, the legislation would have serious negative consequences for our industry.

Why this matters:

Manufactured housing is one of the nation’s most effective sources of attainable housing and land‑lease communities play a critical role in that success. Over the past five years, about 30 percent of newly constructed manufactured homes have been placed in land‑lease communities, with that share reaching as high as one‑half of all production in some years. Overly broad or imprecise language in the institutional investor ban provision could prevent 30,000 to 50,000 homes per year from reaching the market, critically harming the manufactured housing industry.

At the same time, MHI is working to ensure the housing package moving through Congress strengthens manufactured housing by reinforcing HUD as the primary regulator, modernizing the federal construction code to allow for manufactured homes without a permanent chassis, addressing the bankruptcy code, and fighting against a subsidy program intended to crowd out private investment in land-lease communities.

What can you do?

MHI is engaged and making progress—but member outreach right now is essential to reinforce our message and ensure lawmakers understand the real‑world consequences of getting this wrong.

Please take a moment to send a message to your Representative and both U.S. Senators urging them to support clear, narrowly tailored language that protects manufactured housing and allows our industry to continue delivering attainable housing at scale.

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Together, we can help ensure the Senate housing package strengthens, rather than undermines, manufactured housing’s role in addressing the nation’s housing shortage.