Housing costs have gotten out of hand. Manufactured housing offers high-quality, energy-efficient homes at unparalleled value. The Texas Manufactured Housing Association advocates for the rights to build, buy, and live in factory-built homes.
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SB 1341 - Relating to the regulation of manufactured homes.Potentially the most significant change SB 1341 made to Texas’ manufactured housing law seems the most simple, and it is. The bill swapped out our longstanding...
HB 9 - Relating to an exemption from ad valorem taxation of a portion of the appraised value of tangible personal property a person owns that is held or used for the production of income....
SB 38 - Relating to the eviction from real property. This is the massive eviction reform law (23-page bill) impacting all evictions in Texas; and will alleviate the strain in the eviction process by providing...
HB 2559 - Relating to the imposition by a municipality of a moratorium on property development in certain circumstances. This bill was advocated by Texas Home Builders Association (and additional support from a coalition of...
SB 1940 - Relating to authorizing a beneficiary designation that transfers a manufactured home classified as personal property at the owner's death This is a small simple bill and deals with transferring MH ownership in...
HB 2960 - Relating to choice of law and venue for certain construction contracts. The Fourteenth Court of Appeals in Houston, in the case In re MVP Terminalling, LLC, determined that the longstanding laws protecting...
April Preliminary Data New manufactured home sales in April titled to date moved up a seasonally-adjusted +2% from the previous month’s sales and are down just -0.1% from April of 2024. The forecast for total...
The average sales price for multi-section homes in the South Census Region for January surprised to the down side coming in below the bottom of the forecast interval and down -3.6% from the previous month...
The producer price index for manufactured housing moved sideways in May up just +0.02% over the previous month which had seen the largest monthly increase in wholesale prices in the past 12 months. The previous...
Texans search interest in “mobile homes for sale” moved up a seasonally-adjusted +3.2% in May over last month’s search volume bottom. There was a steady decline in search volume from the March 2021 peak, but...
April Shipments Manufactured home shipments to Texas retailers in April moved up a seasonally-adjusted +4.7% from the previous month. The 1,670 total homes shipped for the month was 152 homes above the point forecast and...
The Manufactured Home Builders Index (MHBI) moved lower in May with an -18.3% decrease from the previous month after the companies comprising the index announced earnings below Wall Street targets. The broader ITB residential construction...
In a previous post we outlinedthe City of Odessa's consideration of removing manufactured housing from eight of the ten zoning districts that they are currently allowed in, and now TMHA would like to highlight the...
TMHA’s advocacy efforts had a great week last week. Our priority bill this session, S.B. 1341, passed out of the full House on Friday afternoon. The bill had already passed through the Senate, so when...
The City of Odessa is considering removing manufactured housing as a permitted use in all of its zoning districts - General Residence, University, Retail, Light Commercial, Heavy Commercial, Light Industrial, and Planned Development Districts. This...
TMHA is actively working to advance six bills this session that are MH industry specific (i.e. the Good): HB 3527 by Rep. McQueeny & SB 1341 by Sen. Handcock - relating to the regulation of...
At the risk of exhausting my metaphor from my previous post that highlighted this session’s offensive playbook, we all know a team’s defensive is just as, if not more, important than its offense. Added to...
And finally, our previous posts have already detailed many of the bills that we have identified as having a possible negative impact on our industry. Most of these bills fall within the landlord/tenant laws or...
HB 878 by Vasut Bill grants all Texas counties with a population of less than one million, that have more than two houses per acre, essentially complete land use and zoning equivalency controls over housing....
HB 2904 by Simmons This is rent control This is effectively a 5% max rent control and targeted directly at MH communities The 5% maximum is triggered when the house is “affordable housing” which is...
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