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116TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5547 
To provide assistance for the acquisition and preservation of manufactured 
housing communities, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 7, 2020 
Mrs. AXNE (for herself and Mr. KHANNA) introduced the following bill; which 
was referred to the Committee on Financial Services 
A BILL 
To provide assistance for the acquisition and preservation 
of manufactured housing communities, 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 ‘‘Manufactured Housing 
Community Preservation Act of 2020’’. 
SEC. 2. GRANT PROGRAM FOR MANUFACTURED HOUSING 
PRESERVATION. 
(a) AUTHORITY.—The Secretary of Housing and 
Urban Development shall establish a grant program under 
this section and, to the extent amounts are made available 
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pursuant to subsection (i), make grants under such pro-
gram to eligible entities under subsection (b) for acquiring 
and preserving manufactured housing communities. 
(b) ELIGIBLE ENTITIES.—A grant under this section 
may be made only to entities that meet such requirements 
as the Secretary shall establish to ensure that any entity 
receiving a grant has the capacity to acquire and preserve 
housing affordability in such communities, including— 
(1) a nonprofit organization, including land 
trusts; 
(2) a public housing agency or other State or 
local government agency; 
(3) an Indian tribe (as such term is defined in 
section 4 of the Native American Housing Assist-
ance and Self-Determination Act of 1996 (25 U.S.C. 
4103)) or an agency of an Indian tribe; or 
(4) a resident organization in which home-
owners are members and have open and equal access 
to membership; or 
(5) such other entities as the Secretary deter-
mines will maintain housing affordability in manu-
factured housing communities. 
(c) USE OF GRANT AMOUNTS.—Amounts from a 
grant under this section may be used only for— 
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(1) the acquisition and preservation of manu-
factured housing communities; 
(2) such acquisition and preservation, together 
with costs for making improvements to common 
areas and community property for acquired manu-
factured housing communities; or 
(3) the demolition, removal, and replacement of 
dilapidated homes from a manufactured housing 
community. 
(d) PRESERVATION; AFFORDABILITY; OWNERSHIP.— 
A grant under this section may be made only if the Sec-
retary determines that the grantee will enter into such 
binding agreements as the Secretary considers sufficient 
to ensure that— 
(1) the manufactured housing community ac-
quired using such grant amounts— 
(A) will be maintained as a manufactured 
housing community for a period that begins 
upon the making of such grant and has a dura-
tion not shorter than 20 years; 
(B) will be managed in a manner that ben-
efits the residents and maintains their quality 
of life for a period not shorter than 20 years; 
(C) will, for a period not shorter than 20 
years, be subject to limitations on annual in-
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creases in rents for lots for manufactured 
homes in such community either through resi-
dent control over increases or, if owned by a 
party other than the residents, as the Secretary 
considers appropriate to ensure continued af-
fordability and maintenance of the property, 
but not in any case annually to exceed the per-
centage that is equal to the percentage increase 
for the immediately preceding year in the Con-
sumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers 
(CPI–U) plus 7 percent, and such rents will 
comply with any applicable State laws; 
(D) will be owned by an entity described in 
subsection (b) for a period not shorter than 20 
years; and 
(E) has not been the primary beneficiary 
of a grant under this section during the pre-
ceding 5 years; and 
(2) if in the determination of the Secretary the 
provisions of the agreement have not been met, the 
grant shall be repaid. 
(e) AMOUNT.—The amount of any grant under this 
section may not exceed the lesser of— 
(1) $1,000,000; or 
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(2) the amount that is equal to $20,000 multi-
plied by the number of manufactured home lots in 
the manufactured housing community for which the 
grant is made. 
(f) MATCHING FUNDS.—The Secretary shall require 
a grantee of grant under this section to provide non-Fed-
eral matching funds for use only for the same purposes 
for which the grant is used in an amount equal or exceed-
ing the amount of the grant provided to the grantee. Such 
non-Federal matching funds may be provided by State, 
tribal, local, or private resources and may be a grant or 
loan, in cash or in-kind. 
(g) APPLICATIONS; SELECTION.— 
(1) APPLICATIONS.—The Secretary shall pro-
vide for eligible entities under subsection (b) to 
apply for grants under this section, and shall require 
such applications to contain such assurances as the 
Secretary may require regarding the availability of 
matching funds sufficient to comply with subsection 
(f) and any organizational documents regarding the 
manufactured housing community for which the 
grant is made, as may be required by the State in 
which such community is located. The Secretary 
shall accept applications on a rolling basis and ap-
prove or deny each application within 20 business 
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days of receipt in order to facilitate market-based 
transactions by an applicant. 
(2) SELECTION.—The Secretary shall establish 
criteria for selection of applicants to receive grants 
under this section, which criteria shall— 
(A) give priority to grantees who would use 
such grant amounts to carry out activities 
under subsection (c) within areas having a high 
concentration of low-, very low-, or extremely 
low-income families (as such terms are defined 
in section 3(b) of the United States Housing 
Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437a(b)); 
(B) give priority to grants for the benefit 
of communities that have not received a grant 
under this section during the preceding 10 
years; and 
(C) ensure that not more than 40 percent 
of grant funds for any fiscal year are awarded 
to entities identified in subsection (b)(5). 
(h) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this section, the 
following definitions shall apply: 
(1) MANUFACTURED HOME.—The term ‘‘manu-
factured home’’ means a structure, transportable in 
one or more sections, that— 
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(A) in the traveling mode, is 8 body feet 
or more in width and 40 body feet or more in 
length, or when erected on site is 320 square 
feet or more; 
(B) is built on a permanent chassis and 
designed to be used as a dwelling (with or with-
out a permanent foundation when connected to 
required utilities) and includes plumbing, heat-
ing, air conditioning, and electrical systems; 
and 
(C) in the case of a structure manufac-
tured after June 15, 1976, is certified as meet-
ing the Manufactured Home Construction and 
Safety Standards issued under the National 
Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety 
Standards Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5401 et 
seq.) by the Department of Housing and Urban 
Development and displays a label of such cer-
tification on the exterior of each transportable 
section. 
Such term shall not include any self-propelled rec-
reational vehicle. 
(2) MANUFACTURED
HOUSING
COMMUNITY.— 
The term ‘‘manufactured housing community’’ 
means a community comprised primarily of manu-
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factured homes used primarily for residential pur-
poses. 
(3) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 
the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. 
(i) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There is 
authorized to be appropriated for grants under this section 
$100,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2021 through 2025. 
(j) REGULATIONS.—The Secretary shall issue any 
regulations necessary to carry out this section. 
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