The Next Generation Manufactured Housing Action Plan establishes new energy-efficiency standards for manufactured homes, and new guidelines for anchoring them.
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has unveiled its Next Generation Manufactured Housing Action Plan, an update to the 50-year-old Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards, which “established a national framework for the design and construction of manufactured homes,” Boston Real Estate Times reports.
Under the new plan, the HUD will establish new requirements for anchoring and installing manufactured homes that don’t have a chassis — a heavy duty steel frame — which the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act removed as a requirement for manufactured homes. The HUD also plans to update manufactured homes’ energy-efficiency standards.
“HUD’s plan also calls for the creation of new construction pathways that can accommodate innovative housing types within the federal manufactured housing regulatory framework. The initiative is intended to explore designs that can be realistically produced in factories while expanding the range of affordable housing options available to consumers,” Boston Real Estate Times writes.
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