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115TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3793 
To require the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to consider 
the appropriate inclusion of residential manufactured homes in certain 
programs, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 14, 2017 
Mrs. TORRES introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Financial Services 
A BILL 
To require the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development 
to consider the appropriate inclusion of residential manu-
factured homes in certain programs, and for other pur-
poses. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘HUD Manufactured 
Housing Modernization Act of 2017’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
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(1) Manufactured housing is the largest source 
of unsubsidized affordable housing in the country. 
(2) Nearly 18,000,000 Americans live in manu-
factured housing, which opens the door to homeown-
ership for families who, in many housing markets, 
cannot afford to buy a site-built home. 
(3) A manufactured home qualified under the 
Energy Star program established by section 324A of 
the Energy Policy and Conservation Act (42 U.S.C. 
6294a) can save homeowners an average of 24 to 29 
percent on total heating and cooling costs, compared 
to a typical manufactured home. 
(4) Over 40 percent of manufactured homes are 
found in land lease communities or ‘‘parks’’, but 
new ownership structures, such as resident-owned 
cooperatives or communities owned by nonprofits or 
public housing authorities, can provide homeowners 
greater land tenure security and stability that en-
hances the value of their homes. 
(5) These advances position manufactured 
homes to appreciate in value and open the door to 
homeownership for millions of families, and have 
proven to be an effective long-term affordable hous-
ing preservation strategy for communities across the 
United States. 
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SEC. 3. ISSUANCE OF GUIDELINES RELATING TO RESIDEN-
TIAL MANUFACTURED HOMES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Any new rule or regulation, or 
any revision of a rule or regulation, issued by the Sec-
retary of Housing and Urban Development shall include, 
as appropriate, guidelines that assess the impact of the 
rule or regulation on owners of residential manufactured 
homes and the production and sale of residential manufac-
tured homes. 
(b) CONSOLIDATED PLAN.—The Secretary shall issue 
guidelines for jurisdictions relating to the appropriate in-
clusion of residential manufactured homes in a Consoli-
dated Plan of the jurisdiction. 
SEC. 4. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
(1) RESIDENTIAL MANUFACTURED HOME.—The 
term ‘‘residential manufactured home’’ means a 
manufactured home (as defined in section 603(6) of 
the Housing and Community Development Act of 
1974 (42 U.S.C. 5402(6))) which is used as a resi-
dence. 
(2) CONSOLIDATED PLAN.—The term ‘‘Consoli-
dated Plan’’ means a comprehensive housing afford-
ability strategy and community development plan re-
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quired under part 91 of title 24, Code of Federal 
Regulations. 
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