House Bill Would Return Manufactured Home Energy Standards to HUD
The US House passed a bill returning manufactured home energy standards to HUD, which could leave a 1994 efficiency code as the only benchmark.
Key facts
- The US House passed a bill to eliminate the Department of Energy's 2022 manufactured home efficiency rule and return sole authority to HUD.
- 57 Democrats and 206 Republicans voted for the bill, which then went to the Senate, where it was not taken up on its own.
- The DOE rule was projected to cut utility bills in double-wide homes by an average of $475 a year.
- HUD last updated its manufactured home energy-efficiency standards in 1994.
- The Manufactured Housing Institute, led by CEO Lesli Gooch, backed the bill as a way to end overlapping oversight by two agencies.
- Update: the House bill did not pass the Senate. The ROAD to Housing Act, enacted July 11, 2026, instead made HUD adopt manufactured-home energy standards within a year, and DOE says its 2022 rule has no legal effect.
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Source: This Bill Could Add to Mobile Home Residents’ Already Outsize Energy Costs — Mother Jones, January 13, 2026. Summary and commentary by RISE Community; read the full story at the source.
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