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Last week, the House Financial Services Committee held a hearing addressing homebuyers’ current challenges and characteristics. During the hearing, Rep. Mike Flood (NE-1) raised the lack of housing being built for middle-income people and how manufactured housing has an important role here. Rep. Flood concluded by asking city leaders who effectively use manufactured housing in a development to reach out to his office. MHI will continue the conversation with lawmakers to further awareness of the importance of manufactured housing to addressing the country’s housing supply shortage.

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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 5, 2024

Manufacturer of the Year Winner – Three Plants or Less – Oak Creek Homes

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 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.