Barney Frank: “The manufactured housing piece is important, because manufactured housing is important. Manufactured housing is an…”

“The manufactured housing piece is important, because manufactured housing is important. Manufactured housing is an undervalued housing resource, particularly for people of moderate income, and to the extent that we can advance the ability of the manufactured housing industry to supply that important niche in the housing market, we should take it. We advance it in this bill. There are some gaps, as we have said, and I look forward to working on them next year. We also took some steps to further protect those tenants who are living in federally subsidized tendencies, not public housing, but privately owned, federally subsidized tenancies, who would otherwise have been victimized by a 20-year expiration date that was put into the law that should not have been. This tweaks further legislation, that we did in a favored way earlier, the gentleman from New York (Mr. Lazio), chairman of the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity, and I had worked on. We in this past Congress, essentially protected virtually all of the tenants in those tenancies from eviction.”