Industry News

• Build, Build, and Build – Need for Housing Supply Takes Center Stage in Top Political Discussions

  August 28, 2024 - On Tuesday, August 27, Texas Comptroller Glen Hegar’s office issued a 26-page report titled “The Housing Affordability Challenge.” The report is the latest in a growing trend of top-level political voices focusing explicit policy on...

• TX Supreme Court Emergency Order Extending Deadlines in some JP Courts due to hurricane

  July 15, 2024 - The Supreme Court of Texas has issued an emergency order authorizing the modification of deadlines in certain justice courts affected by Hurricane Beryl. Justice courts in Fort Bend, Galveston, Harris, Matagorda, and Montgomery counties that...

• Industry in the News

  July 10, 2024 - July 10, 2024 Supreme Court shifts power over federal regulations from agencies to judges Supreme Court Ruling Reins In Federal Bureaucrats FANNIE - Unaffordability Expected to Remain Primary Constraint on Home Sales Pre-Fab Houses Selling...

• US Supreme Court ruling impacting the future of federal regulations

  July 09, 2024 - Full disclosure…this post probably isn’t going to be super exciting for most of our members. But for my fellow uber-legal nerds out there dying to discuss the recent Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS)...

• New Final Rules for MH and Modular Homes in Texas

  June 19, 2024 - MH TDHCA – New 3rd Party Initial Testing Following unanimous approval by the MH TDHCA Board and posting in the Texas Register on June 14, 2024, the most recent changes to the Manufactured Housing Rules...

• TMHA Comments on Texas Water Development Board 2024 State Flood Plan

  June 19, 2024 - The Texas Water Development Board (TWDB) accepted public comments this week on its Draft 2024 State Flood Plan. TMHA submitted our public comments, and we know several other real estate trade associations did as well....

• TDLR Pushes Back Modular IRC Code Compliance Date

  April 11, 2024 - TDLR recently published a rule revision that pushes back to the mid-summer the effective date for the new building code requirements. The requirement that industrialized housing (i.e. modular homes) be built to the 2021 version...

• Texas Eviction Update

  March 27, 2024 - Our first reminder is a quick one, and one that if you have obtained an eviction judgment from a JP court in the last year you have probably already seen. Rule 505.1 was amended effective...

• HUD Action on Alleged Fair Housing Violations

  March 27, 2024 - For HUD to charge a company with a violation, typically they first receive a complaint that is then verified. After they verify the complaint, HUD, on behalf of the aggrieved persons, conducts an investigation. If...

• Texas Factory Housing State Admin. Rule Update – TDHCA, TDLR, and DMV

  March 04, 2024 - We have two updates on final rules and effective dates that we previously posted about. First, MH TDHCA rule changes are now final and effective. Recall the few rule changes were in response to an...

• White House Announcement on MH "PRICE" Program and FHA Title I Loan Limit Increases

  March 04, 2024 - On February 29 the White House announced “New Actions to Boost Housing Supply and Lower Housing Costs.” Specific for MH, first HUD announced a new $225 million grant program for the preservation and revitalization of...

• Using E-sign in Your Business, Double Check You Have the Proper Consent

  March 04, 2024 - TMHA was made aware of a concern that some of the necessities required as a prerequisite to using electronic signatures (e-sign) are not understood. Make sure you know what you need so your e-signed contracts...

• Manufactured Housing Division of TDHCA Board – New 2024 Administrative Rules

  January 23, 2024 - Last Friday, January 19, the board for the Manufactured Housing Division of TDCHA met and approved final rule revisions that create a new process when a licensee or prospective licenses is caught cheating on the...

• TMHA Supported TRCA In Effect Despite Recent Court Ruling

  January 09, 2024 - Before moving too far ahead in 2024, we need to address a lingering issue from 2023 that has carried over into the new year. Recall that during the 2023 regular Texas Legislative Session, the most...

• Call To TMHA Members to Subscribe to Local Gov’t Alerts

  January 09, 2024 - Perhaps the most significant step to finally creating much needed transparency for local government and in keeping with our moder times, S.B. 943 has been the law in Texas since enactment in September of 2023....

• 2024 Primaries Coming in March (Early voting starts in February)

  January 09, 2024 - The March 5th primaries are nearly upon us once again. In fact, early voting starts February 20th. And if you aren’t yet registered or have employees and/or tenants (for our MHC owners) who are not...

• Cost Comparison of Manufactured Housing and Site-built Construction

  December 01, 2023 - According to the most recent annual data from the US Census Bureau manufactured housing continues to provide homeowners with considerable costs savings when compared to site-built construction. The average price per square foot of a...

• Fourth Special Session and Primary Election Update

  November 28, 2023 - The current fourth called special session will end on December 6th. But as things currently stand coming out of the Thanksgiving holiday, there is very little hope by the Governor’s office to revive the passage...

• Annual Threshold Adjustments for Reg M and TILA High Priced Appraisals

  November 28, 2023 - The CFPB announced several annual threshold adjustments in the form of new final rules. In a joint rulemaking between the CFPB, the Federal Reserve Board, and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency the...

• TDLR Code Council Moves Forward with Adoption of 2021 ICC for Residential Modular Homes in Texas

  November 28, 2023 - On November 16, 2023, the Code Council for the Industrialized Housing and Building (IHB) program within the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation (TDLR) met and unanimously approved (see video timestamp at 35:40) administrative rule...