White House Plan Includes Enabling HUD Code to Build More Manufactured Homes – Celebrating 50 Years of Partnership with HUD

In a Fact Sheet: Biden Harris Administration Takes New Actions to Lower Housing Costs by Cutting Red Tape to Build More Housing, including enabling housing types to be built under the HUD Code.

HUD anticipates finalizing a rule to update its Manufactured Home Construction and Safety Standards. Manufactured housing provides an essential path to increasing overall housing supply and offers significant savings over site-built housing. The HUD Code creates economies of scale for manufacturers, resulting in significantly lower costs for buyers. In addition to making changes that will increase the quality, energy efficiency, and resilience of manufactured homes, the new rule, if finalized, would enable duplexes, triplexes and four-plexes to be built under the HUD Code for the first-time, extending the cost saving benefits of manufactured housing to denser urban and suburban in contexts.

Celebrating 50 Years of Partnership with HUD

Source: MHI – Next week will mark 50 years since President Gerald R. Ford signed the National Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974 into law on August 22, 1974.

The act also known as the HUD Code, gives the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) the authority to establish and change the federal standards for manufactured homes.The ACT’s goals include:

• Making manufactured homes more affordable, durable, safe, and high-quality
• Making affordable manufactured homes more available
• Establishing uniform construction standards for manufactured homes
• Encouraging cost-effective and innovative construction techniques

Today, manufactured housing is the only type of housing that is subject to robust federal compliance and quality assurance regulation for health, energy efficiency, and durability, often more stringent than those for traditional site-built homes. Unlike other types of factory built housing, manufactured homes can easily be shipped across state lines, and our builders achieve time efficiencies and unparalleled economies of scale.

Thanks to the industry’s partnership with HUD, manufactured housing has made the American Dream of homeownership attainable for millions of families. Manufactured home builders offer homebuyers brand-new homes with the design features and efficiencies they want at price points they can afford. The partnership with HUD has resulted in homes that consumers love, especially compared to other housing choices at similar price points.