Politics & Government
U.S. Manufactured Home Industry Production 2024 Total Up per MHARR
Mark Weiss, J.D., President & CEO of Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform Issues Dec & 2024 Manufactured Home Totals
The following press release is from the Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform press release to this writer for MHProNews and this Patch.
Part I
Washington, D.C, Feb 6, 2025 - The Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) reports that according to official statistics compiled on behalf of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the HUD Code manufactured housing industry year-over-year production increased in December 2024. Just-released statistics indicate that HUD Code manufacturers produced 7,078 new homes in December 2024, an 11.2% increase over the 6,360 new HUD Code homes produced in December 2023. Cumulative production for 2024 thus totals 103,314 homes, a 15.8% increase over the 89,169 HUD Code homes produced during 2023.
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Further analysis of the official industry statistics shows that the top ten shipment states from January 2023 — with monthly, cumulative, current reporting year (2024) and prior year (2023) shipments per category as indicated — are found at this link here.
The December 2024 statistics result in no changes to the cumulative top-ten list.
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While the increase in production of new HUD-Code homes reflected in the 2024 statistics is an encouraging turn-around from 2023, and is more consistent with production levels above the 100,000-home benchmark noted in 2021 and 2022, it still pales in comparison with the demand (and need) for affordable starter homes in the United States and the production levels in the hundreds-of-thousands of homes that the industry should be achieving. As MHARR has again emphasized most recently in a communication to HUD Secretary-Nominee Scott Turner, this differential, between demand, need, and production, is fundamentally a function of three significant bottlenecks that have undermined the availability and utilization of HUD Code manufactured homes, i.e., discriminatory zoning exclusion, the failure of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to implement the statutory Duty to Serve for the industry’s dominant chattel lending sector, and looming draconian federal energy regulation. In a second Trump Administration, these bottlenecks should – and must be removed – and the industry cannot afford to waste its renewed opportunity to do so. Rather, now is the time to take aggressive action to eliminate these bottlenecks once and for all, while preserving the benefits of reasonable federal regulation, and expanding the affordable, mainstream manufactured housing industry.
The Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform is a Washington, D.C.-based national trade association representing the views and interests of independent producers of federally-regulated manufactured housing.
Part II - Additional Information with More Analysis, Commentary, plus Other Topics
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“When you want to help people, you tell them the truth.
When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.”
– Thomas Sowell
“The puzzle is why there’s so little (manufactured housing) being shippedwhen it’s a much better product than it used to be.”
– Laurie Goodman, Urban Institute fellow
In a perfect world, manufactured housing industry professionals should not have to depend on associations to advocate to enforce existing federal laws. Even with the nonprofit Manufactured Housing Association for Regulatory Reform (MHARR) advocating for enforcing existing laws that could turn millions of renters into homeowners, simply through making placement and financing easier by enforcing existing laws, HUD and the FHFA have both stonewalled.
Trump 2.0 HUD Secretary E. Scott Turner has been confirmed by the U.S. Senate. This writer reported on Turner previously in reports like those that follow.
This writer's articles on the Patch tend to be shorter than similar looking topics on MHProNews, which routinely provides added details and evidence.
We have an affordable housing crisis in the U.S. in part because existing federal laws are only occassionally enforced. Put differently, because federal officials have not been doing their jobs properly, hundreds of thousands of our fellow Americans are homeless or struggling to afford housing. Its an avoidable tragedy.
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L. A. “Tony” Kovach is a publisher who has earned multiple awards in history. He and his family live in a manufactured home on private property in Winter Haven, FL. He is the co-founder of Manufactured Home Living News.com (MHLivingNews.com) and Manufactured Home Pro News.com (MHProNews.com), trade publications serving segments of the manufactured home industry. Having worked in several segments of the manufactured home industry for over 3 decades, Kovach is a widely acknowledged and often praised expert on manufactured housing. ###
