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Manufactured Housing and Standards

This consumer protection program regulates the construction of certain factory built housing units, called manufactured homes, formerly known as mobile homes. The program also oversees the enforcement of construction standards through third party inspection agencies and State governments.

Rating

What This Rating Means

PERFORMING
Moderately Effective

In general, a program rated Moderately Effective has set ambitious goals and is well-managed. Moderately Effective programs likely need to improve their efficiency or address other problems in the programs' design or management in order to achieve better results.
  • Regulation has resulted in safer housing. Fire deaths were found to be 64% lower in post-regulation homes than in pre-regulation homes.
  • HUD has set an aggressive goal to reduce the number of fire deaths by 50% over the next ten years.
  • The program relies on independent research and evaluation to support program improvements. For example, research findings have supported regulation to address hurricane, wind and fire hazards.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Developing an efficiency measure to complete the program's set of performance measures.
  • Completing cost-benefit analyses of Installation and Dispute Resolution standards.

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