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The bill increases transparency and legal protections for residents of manufactured-home communities—potentially reducing rent shocks and improving conditions—while imposing administrative burdens, oversight/privacy trade-offs, and possible costs or investment effects that could be passed to owners or residents.
Renters in manufactured-home communities — especially low-income households and seniors — could face fewer sudden, investor-driven rent hikes because HUD will investigate and report on pricing and ownership practices.
Residents could see improved habitability and more reliable utility service when HUD investigates failures by large purchasers and holds accountable those who let conditions decline.
Policymakers, local governments, and the public gain timely transparency and disaggregated data (by race, gender, socioeconomic status) on large-scale purchasers and investor practices through a HUD report published within 270 days, supporting targeted interventions.
HUD will incur administrative costs and staff time to complete monitoring, investigations, and the 270-day report, which could divert resources from other HUD programs and services.
Landlords, park owners, and small community operators may face increased compliance or administrative costs from any resulting actions or program requirements, and those costs could be passed through to residents as higher rents or fees.
Exempting HUD's information collection from the Paperwork Reduction Act reduces opportunities for public comment and independent oversight of the data collection methods, raising transparency and civil‑liberties concerns.
Based on analysis of 4 sections of legislative text.
Requires HUD to investigate and monitor pad-site pricing and large purchaser activity in manufactured home communities, report findings with demographic data, and publish results.
Introduced August 12, 2025 by Gabriel Vasquez · Last progress August 12, 2025
Requires the Department of Housing and Urban Development to investigate suspected price manipulation and price-gouging for pad sites in manufactured home communities, monitor large-scale purchases of manufactured homes and pad sites, and report findings publicly and to Congress. The law sets data and reporting requirements (including race, gender, and socioeconomic disaggregation), directs HUD to study how institutional investors affect seniors and underserved groups, and exempts the information collection for the initial investigation from the Paperwork Reduction Act. Sets a numeric trigger for targeted investigations (any single purchaser—including institutional investors—who has bought more than 2,500 manufactured homes or pad sites in a housing market area since Jan 1, 2015) and requires HUD to publish reports within defined deadlines (initial report within 270 days; investigation reports within one year after conclusion). It also defines "manufactured home" and "manufactured home community" for the statute's purposes.