U.S. Representative John Rose (R-TN-06) delivered remarks at a Subcommittee on Housing and Insurance hearing on housing affordability, which included a discussion surrounding his Expansion of Attainable Homeownership Through Manufactured Housing Act of 2023.
Today, during a @FinancialCmte hearing on the issue of housing affordability, my legislation the Expansion of Attainable Homeownership Through Manufactured Housing, was brought up for discussion as a way to ease the problem by getting government out of the way.
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— Congressman John Rose (@RepJohnRose) December 6, 2023
Wednesday’s hearing entitled, “Housing Affordability: Governmental Barriers and Market-Based Solutions” focused on the affordability challenges in both the single-family housing and rental markets.
Five witnesses at the hearing discussed the factors that have contributed to the housing and rental market challenges, including government-created barriers such as restrictive land-use and zoning policies, and various market-based solutions.
Rose’s bill, if enacted, would amend the definition of “manufactured home” in the National Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974 by striking “built on a permanent chassis and.”
Manufactured homes, according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), are built in the controlled environment of a manufacturing plant and are transported in one or more sections on a permanent chassis.
The HUD Code, unlike conventional building codes, requires manufactured homes to be constructed on a permanent chassis.
During Wednesday’s hearing, Rose said HUD’s permanent chassis requirement for manufactured homes is “outdated.”
“One such government barrier to more affordable housing is HUD’s outdated requirement that manufactured housing be built on a permanent chassis,” Rose said. “A permanent chassis allows manufactured housing to be more easily transported. This is helpful if a manufactured home will be moved multiple times during its lifetime.”
“However, many manufactured homes are now built with the intention of being permanently placed in one location and thus do not need to be built with a permanent chassis,” Rose added. “Eliminating the permanent chassis requirement for manufactured housing from the federal construction code administered by HUD will help to potentially save thousands of dollars on new manufactured homes made without a permanent chassis.”
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Kaitlin Housler is a reporter at The Tennessee Star and The Star News Network. Follow Kaitlin on X / Twitter.
Don’t care. I do care that Rose supports a RINO Speaker who will do what Schumer commands.
Don’t care. What I do care about is Rose supporting a RINO Speaker who will do whatever Schumer tells him to do.
An immobile mobile home. Will there be requirements to set them on a foundation/slab?