The Manufactured Housing Institute, in a newsletter email to members on June 30, reported that the pending U.S. Department of Energy rules for manufactured homes would be delayed for tier 2 homes until 180 days after DOE publishes its final enforcement procedures. The standard for tier 1 homes remains unchanged at 60 days post publication.
Tier 2 homes have a greater energy efficiency standard than tier 1 homes.
Had the late change not been implemented the enforcement for tier 2 homes would have gone into effect July 1.
“MHI has been a leading voice and advocate in favor of this delay, noting the importance of the compliance date coming after the testing, compliance, and enforcement provisions are finalized” and for tier 1 compliance to come before tier 2, MHI said in its communication.
MHI praised the White House for urging action, and stated the “fundamentally flawed energy conservation standards for manufactured housing” threatened to reduce affordable housing supplies and raise housing costs for American households.
“Today’s action supports both affordable housing and American manufacturing jobs, and buys time to reevaluate the approach taken by the prior administration to energy conservation standards for manufactured housing, which were serving neither the interests of energy efficiency, nor affordable housing,” MHI stated. “We will continue to work with the Trump administration and members of Congress on a bi-partisan basis to address the fundamental flaws in the statute and streamline confusing and duplicative regulations with the goal of reducing the costs of owning and operating a home.”
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