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117TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. 3188 

To establish a manufactured housing community improvement grant program, 

and for other purposes. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

NOVEMBER 4, 2021 

Ms. CORTEZ MASTO introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 

referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs 

A BILL 

To establish a manufactured housing community 

improvement grant program, and for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Manufactured Housing 

5 Community Improvement Grant Program Act’’. 

6 SEC. 2. MANUFACTURED HOUSING COMMUNITY IMPROVE7 MENT GRANT PROGRAM. 

8 (a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 


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1 (1) ELIGIBLE MANUFACTURED HOME COMMU2 NITY.—The term ‘‘eligible manufactured home com3 munity’’ means a community that— 

4 (A) is affordable to low- and moderate-in5 come persons (as such term is defined in sec6 tion 102(a) of the Housing and Community De7 velopment Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5302(a))); 

8 and 

9 (B)(i) is owned by the residents of the 

10 manufactured housing community through a 

11 resident-controlled entity, as defined by the Sec12 retary, in which at least two-thirds of residents 

13 are member-owners of the land-owning entity; 

14 or 

15 (ii) will be maintained as such a commu16 nity, and remain affordable for low- and mod17 erate-income families, to the maximum extent 

18 practicable and for the longest period feasible. 

19 (2) ELIGIBLE RECIPIENT.—The term ‘‘eligible 

20 recipient’’ means a partnership of— 

21 (A) a grantee under paragraph (2) or (4) 

22 of section 106(a) of the Housing and Commu23 nity Development Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 

24 5306(a)); and 


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1 (B) an eligible manufactured home com2 munity, a nonprofit entity, or a consortia of 

3 nonprofit entities working with an eligible man4 ufactured home community. 

5 (3) MANUFACTURED HOME COMMUNITY.—The 

6 term ‘‘manufactured home community’’ means any 

7 community, court, or park equipped to accommodate 

8 manufactured homes for which pad sites, with or 

9 without existing manufactured homes or other al10 lowed homes, or other suitable sites, are used pri11 marily for residential purposes, with any additional 

12 requirements as determined by the Secretary, includ13 ing any manufactured housing community as such 

14 term is used for purposes of the program of the 

15 Federal National Mortgage Association for multi16 family loans for manufactured housing communities 

17 and the program of the Federal Home Loan Mort18 gage Corporation for loans for manufactured hous19 ing communities. 

20 (4) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 

21 the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. 

22 (b) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Secretary shall carry out 

23 a competitive grant program to award funds to eligible re24 cipients to carry out eligible projects for improvements in 

25 eligible manufactured home communities. 


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1 (c) ELIGIBLE PROJECTS.—Amounts from grants 

2 under this section shall be used to assist in carrying out 

3 a project for construction, reconstruction, repair, or clear4 ance of housing, facilities and improvements in or serving 

5 a manufactured housing community that is necessary to 

6 protect the health and safety of the residents of the manu7 factured housing community and the long-term sustain8 ability of the community. 

9 (d) WAIVERS.—The Secretary may waive or specify 

10 alternative requirements for any provision of law or regu11 lation that the Secretary administers in connection with 

12 use of amounts made available under this section other 

13 than requirements related to fair housing, nondiscrimina14 tion, labor standards, and the environment, upon a finding 

15 that the waiver or alternative requirement is not incon16 sistent with the overall purposes of such Act and that the 

17 waiver or alternative requirement is necessary to facilitate 

18 the use of amounts made available under this section. 

19 (e) IMPLEMENTATION.—The Secretary shall have au20 thority to issue such regulations, notices, or other guid21 ance, forms, instructions, and publications to carry out the 

22 programs, projects, or activities authorized under this sec23 tion to ensure that such programs, projects, or activities 

24 are completed in a timely and effective manner. 


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1 (f) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There is 

2 authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary such sums 

3 as may be necessary to carry out this section. 

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