The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) recently appointed six new members to serve on the Manufactured Housing Consensus Committee (MHCC), a federal advisory committee.
The new MHCC members are:
- Clayton Camblin, weatherization field specialist, Kansas Housing Resource Corporation;
- Brad DeHays, founder and CEO, Connect Housing Blocks;
- Steve Ervin, senior vice president – head of FHA and seniors housing finance, Berkadia Commercial Mortgage;
- Todd Kopstein, CEO, Cascade Financial;
- Andrew McCoy, Ph.D., director, Virginia Center for Housing Research and associate director, Myers Lawson School of Construction at Virginia Tech University; and
- John Weldy, vice president, engineering, Clayton Homes Building Corp.
These appointments maintain the MHCC at 21 members to ensure the committee can continue to play its critical role in advising HUD’s Office of Manufactured Housing Programs on recommendations to the Manufactured Home Construction and Safety Standards, or HUD Code.
“Under Secretary (Scott) Turner’s leadership, the department is making good on its promise to increase the supply and affordability of manufactured homes for American homebuyers,” Federal Housing Commissioner and Assistant Secretary for Housing Frank Cassidy said in a release. “I welcome the new members of the MHCC, whose diverse perspectives will help us modernize the HUD Code and reform unnecessary barriers that have long hindered the broad production of efficient, high-quality and affordable manufactured homes.”
The MHCC is a statutory Federal Advisory Committee body charged with providing recommendations to the secretary of HUD on the revision and interpretation of HUD's Manufactured Home Construction and Safety Standards and related procedural and enforcement regulations.