Timothy Roemer: “I want to join in praising the bipartisan bill to help improve affordable housing opportunities in the American dream…”

“I want to join in praising the bipartisan bill to help improve affordable housing opportunities in the American dream for more and more Americans. I have a number of employees and employers in the manufactured housing industry in my State of Indiana, and one in four of every new homes built in America is a manufactured home. At the same time that we hear that very important statistic, we look down this street, down Pennsylvania Avenue at HUD, and we have not updated the code to treat those homes in a fair manner with consumer and homeowner perspectives in mind in over 25 years. It is high time that this body in a bipartisan way recognize the great quality homes that are manufactured in this country, recognize that these homes have changed dramatically over the last 20 years; many of them now two stories with wrap-around decks and porches, basements. We cannot tell by looking at them from the street that they are manufactured housing.”