Reform advocates speak at an Iowa press conference in 2020 (Photo by Kathie Obradovich/Iowa Capital Dispatch)
WASHINGTON U.S. Rep. Cindy Axne is pushing for tenants’ rights to extend to residents of manufactured housing communities to protect them from predatory rent hikes.
The Iowa Democrat introduced two pieces of legislation last week. One bill aims to establish a set of minimum standards and protections for tenants of manufactured housing communities, which are typically single or multifamily homes built elsewhere and installed to a site, that receive federal financing through Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, or the Federal Housing Administration.
The other is a reintroduced bill that aims to keep manufactured housing communities “affordable by providing federal assistance for acquiring and preserving these communities,” through purchases by non-profits or local groups.
Mr. Greene has been tapped by the White House to serve as assistant secretary for policy development and research, pending Senate confirmation. Similarly, if confirmed, Mr. Colón is slated to lead HUD’s community planning and development portfolio.
To date, both men have drawn the scrutiny of GOP lawmakers on the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, of which Mr. Toomey is the ranking member, for their longstanding and inflammatory statements on social media.
Mr. Colón, who serves as a housing official in New York, previously used his Twitter account to routinely disparage members of Congress, “cabinet officials, Republican voters, and news anchors,” according to the letter.
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