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Chairman Fleishman to DOE Secretary Granholm: Change DOE’s Approach to Manufactured Housing

Last week, the House Appropriations Committee held a hearing to review the President’s proposed budget for the Department of Energy (DOE) for Fiscal Year 2025. Committee members asked questions and commented on the budget requests to DOE Secretary Jennifer Granholm.

Appropriations Committee Chair Chuck Fleischmann (TN-3) spotlighted manufactured housing and referenced the ongoing struggle over the DOE Energy Rule in his opening statement.

“I was pleased to see the Department back-track on the gas stoves rule; I hope to see a similar adjustment to reality on the distribution transformers and manufacturing housing rules,” Fleischmann said. “As the Secretary knows, I’ve been a long-term proponent of the manufacturing housing industry. This is the beginning of the American dream for many lower-income Americans.”

MHI appreciates Chair Fleischmann’s ongoing engagement with the DOE on the Energy Rule and his past work to support manufactured housing.

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April 16, 2024

Clayton Breaks Ground on New Neighborhood of 31 Modern Manufactured Homes in Daviess County, Kentucky

As we embark upon 2024, MHI would like to celebrate some of the manufactured home industry’s advocacy highlights from 2023 that we will build upon in the year ahead.

April 11, 2024

MHI Announces 2024 Excellence in Manufactured Housing Award Winners

MHI announced the 2024 Excellence in Manufactured Housing Award recipients last week during the MHI Congress & Expo in Las Vegas. The annual awards program honors MHI members in the manufactured and modular home industry who provide outstanding products, customer service, creative solutions, and state-of-the-art homes

April 10, 2024

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April 25, 2024

Unfair Unionization Practices Targeted in House Bill

MHI and a coalition of business organizations asked Congress to pass H.R. 7784, the Start Applying Labor Transparency (SALT) Act, which was introduced by Rep. Owens (UT-R) on March 21

Final Floodplain Rule Disregards Industry Recommendations

The Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Office of Environment and Energy (OEE) published a final rule revising HUD’s regulations governing floodplain management.

MHI Calls on HUD to Include Manufactured Home Communities in Loan Program

On Friday, MHI advocated for the clear inclusion of for-profit manufactured home community owners in comments to the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) on their draft of a Mortgagee Letter that would launch the Manufactured Home Community Program (MHC Program), to allow refinance and purchase transactions under Section 223(f) for eligible borrowers.