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Average Retail Sales Prices
April 21, 2025 - The average sales price for multi-section homes in the South Census Region according to the Manufactured Housing Survey (MHS) for November moved down -0.3% from the previous month to $151,700. The average multi-section selling price...
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Texas Manufactured Housing Sales Market Analysis
April 21, 2025 - 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...
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City of Odessa Consideration of Removing MH as Permitted Use
April 21, 2025 - 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...
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Texas Manufactured Home Shipments Market Analysis
April 03, 2025 - February Shipments Manufactured home shipments to Texas retailers in February moved up a seasonally-adjusted +0.4% from the previous month as deliveries per production day picked up. The 1,441 total homes shipped for the month was...
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Manufactured Home Builders Stock Index
April 02, 2025 - The first quarter of 2025 ended with the Manufactured Home Builders Index (MHBI) moving lower in March with a -4.4% decrease from the previous month. The decline put the MHBI right in between the broader...
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TMHA’s 2025 Offensive Playbook – The Bills We are Working to Pass
March 20, 2025 - 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...
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Texas’ First Tenants Right of First Refusal, and Personal Property MH Killer
March 20, 2025 - 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...
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Bills Added to TMHA Defense List on County Land Use Authority at Filing Deadline
March 20, 2025 - 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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From the 89th – County Zoning and Land Use Bills
March 04, 2025 - 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....
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From the 89th - Bills Targeting Manufactured Home Communities
March 04, 2025 - 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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From the 89th – Landlord/Tenant Bills TMHA Opposes
March 04, 2025 - 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...
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HUD Code Changes Summary and Reference Guide
January 13, 2025 - 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...
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Department of Agriculture (USDA), Rural Housing Service Final Rule Expanding Opportunities to Manufactured Housing in the USDA Program
January 13, 2025 - 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...
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From the 89th – Prefiled Edition
December 02, 2024 - 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...
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FinCen’s Beneficial Ownership Disclosure – Jan 1, 2025 Deadline & CFPB Annually Adjusted Thresholds for 2025
December 02, 2024 - 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...
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New Proposed and Pre-Proposed Rules for TX Modulars and Some MLO's Registered with OCCC
December 02, 2024 - 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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TMHA Retailer and Two-Time Former Chairman, Karl Radde, Receives National Award
October 13, 2024 - We would like to join in on all the well-deserved congratulations to Texas retailer and two-time TMHA Chairman of the Board, Karl Radde’s, recent national award from MHI. MHI Chairman and president and CEO of...
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CFPB Nonbank Registration Rule – Begins Oct 16, 2024
October 13, 2024 - June 3, 2024, the CFPB finalized its federal rules for the creation of a new nonbank registry. This nonbank registry collects information about certain publicly available agency and court orders. Essentially enforcement allegations, actions, infractions,...
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HUD Publishes Report – Eliminating Zoning Barriers to Affordable Housing
October 13, 2024 - HUD was commissioned and funded through a federal award to the National Association for Latino Community Asset Builders and working with Smart Growth America, to create a “guidebook” after looking at the various barriers to...
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Quick Review of the FTC Holder Rule
October 13, 2024 - In a recent post by the Federal Trade Commission titled, “The FTC’s Holder Rule: still holding strong,” the federal regulator draws special and renewed attention to the “Holder Rule.” So, since the regulator thought it...