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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...
Texans search interest in “mobile homes for sale” moved down a seasonally-adjusted -2.3% in April from the previous month setting a new low for search volumes. There was a steady decline in search volume from...
Manufactured Housing Survey (MHS) for December moved down -2.2% from the previous month to $148,300. The average multi-section selling price was +1.9% above the December of 2023 average price nominally but was down -1% after...
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...
March Shipments Manufactured home shipments to Texas retailers in March moved down a seasonally-adjusted -4.4% from the previous month. The 1,498 total homes shipped for the month was on the low side of the forecast...
The producer price index for manufactured housing moved up +0.9% in April over the previous month marking the highest wholesale pricing since December of 2022. The three previous months were revised down with this release....
February Preliminary Data New manufactured home sales in February titled to date moved up a seasonally-adjusted +7.6% from the previous month’s sales but are down -12.4% from the 29 day February of 2024. The additional...
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...
HB 577 by Bucy Increases notice to vacate on evictions from 3 to 14 days HB 798 by Walle & SB 882 by Cook Massive landlord/tenant law reform, includes nearly every pro-tenant provisions compiled from...
There has been a lot of talk over the past few months about the sweeping and significant HUD Code changes released back in September 2024. The rule changes comprise of 74 incorporated references within the...
On January 3, 2025, USDA published a final rule with the, “intent…to allow the Agency to give borrowers increased purchase options within a competitive market and increase adequate housing along with an enhanced customer experience...
For those members like us here at TMHA thinking that January 14th can’t come fast enough, I have great news for you, filing of bills as already started. We already have1,791 and counting bills that...
FinCen’s Beneficial Ownership Disclosure – Jan 1, 2025 Deadline on Hold Pending Recent Litigation and Injunction This isn’t really TMHA’s field of expertise, so please check with your accounting professionals, but the federal FinCen Beneficial...
This is a general “around the horn” post about two recent Texas regulatory actions from TDLR (residential modular regulator) and OCCC (manufactured housing chattel lending regulator). The TDLR Industrialized Housing and Building Code Council, which...
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