Advocacy Efforts

State & Local

During the 2024 Legislative Session 259 House Bills and 220 Senate Bills were introduced not including resolutions or commemorations. The Legislature approved a 4% increase for ‘the big three’ – public education, state employee salaries, and healthcare providers. The tuition freeze for students at public universities and technical colleges was also approved. The Legislature created a statewide public defender’s office to assist in the burden counties have covering indigent defense costs. Also, $20 million was dedicated to the voter approved Medicaid expansion program and a healthy $226 million was placed into a fund for the construction of the men’s prison in Lincoln county and women’s prison in Rapid City.

Members of the Workforce Housing Needs in SD Interim Study Committee toured both manufactured housing communities and a retail dealership in Sioux Falls. The tour focused on how manufactured housing could be an option to address the workforce housing needs in the state. Lawmakers toured homes and had their questions surrounding manufactured and modular housing answered from industry members. Executive Director Jasper Diegel and Board member Jeff Scoular of Jimsco both testified before the entire committee the following morning.

National

The Manufactured Housing Institute (MHI) is our watchdog at the national level. We work closely with MHI to ensure the industry is adequately represented at the federal level. Below is a list of industry issues MHI is working on in Washington DC. Visit the MHI website for more information.

Improving the Supply of Manufactured Housing Finance

MHI is making manufactured housing a part of Administration and Congressional discussions about improving access to credit for affordable housing. MHI is building support for and advancing its legislative and regulatory priorities, which include clarifying and modifying CFPB financing rules, requiring the Government Sponsored Enterprises to support chattel lending and improving FHA mortgage insurance programs for manufactured housing.

Presesrving an Effective Regulatory Structure

MHI is focused on ensuring that regulatory initiatives undertaken by the Office of Manufactured Housing Programs foster uniformity, ease of compliance, and minimize discrepancies and overlap with state and local codes. This includes revisiting and revising HUD’s on-site completion rule, ensuring HUD’s installation guidance memos are in line with regulatory parameters, and encouraging HUD to exercise preemption when local regulatory construction standards and zoning policies adversely impact manufactured housing, communities and the supply of affordable homes.

Energy Efficient New Home Tax Credit