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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With housing affordability reaching crisis levels across America, manufactured housing continues to provide a proven solution. New Census Bureau data reveals the striking cost advantage that makes home ownership accessible to more families. The Census...
The Manufactured Housing Division of TDHCA has recently changed its enforcement policies. The blunt assessment is they have shifted into a more aggressive posture and are cracking down on laws that have been in place...
May Preliminary Data New manufactured home sales in May titled to date moved up a seasonally-adjusted +2.8% from the previous month’s sales and are up +9% over May of 2024. The forecast for total new...
The average sales price for multi-section homes in the South Census Region for February surprised again to the down side coming in below the bottom of the forecasted interval for the second straight month. The...
The producer price index for manufactured housing continued to move sideways in June up just +0.04% over the previous month which was revised down slightly in this release. Wholesale prices nationally are up +1.2% above...
Texans search interest in “mobile homes for sale” moved up a seasonally-adjusted +0.9% in June over last month, but remains at historically low volumes for this time of the year. There was a steady decline...
May Shipments Manufactured home shipments to Texas retailers in May moved down a seasonally-adjusted -0.7% from the previous month. The 1,580 total of homes shipped for the month was just three homes above the point...
The Manufactured Home Builders Index (MHBI) moved lower for the fourth straight month finishing June -1.6% below the previous months close. The broader ITB residential construction index moved higher on the month up +4.9% and...
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...
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...
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