What is it? Who regulates it? Does it even exist anymore?
I looked up “HUD-code” on the web with interesting results.
These two pages, one specifically the home page for HUD’s Office of Manufactured Housing Programs and that program’s Frequently Asked Questions page, are gone. That would seem to mean that program is now defunct. In any case, it’s continuity is clearly in question. Yet, the Texas Senate is poised to pass legislation requiring HUD-code housing in all residential districts in all cities.
I then did a search on the HUD website itself for HUD-code. It returned this:
Again, every one of these pages having to do with HUD-code housing returns a Page not Found error and flips the user to HUD’s home page. Yet, the Texas Senate is poised to pass legislation requiring HUD-code housing be allowed in all residential districts in all cities.
Perhaps the Texas Senate would be wise to see what happens to HUD before moving forward with SB785. Same for the Texas House with HB 1835. HUD is in the process of cutting about 4,000 staff members, or approximately 50% of its staff. As I pointed out, there’s no information on its website about HUD-Code housing. There are only 4 regulations under HUD-Code on Regulations.gov and none is from the past 3 years: 1-2003; 1-2005; 1-2007; and 1-2022.
It would seem Texas is poised to legislate allowing something to happen in all residential zoning districts of all Texas municipalities that may no longer exist.