In yet another attempt to go after the self-reliant lifestyle, the federal government has again taken aim at the off-grid lifestyle and is attempting to ban Tiny Homes and RVs as permanent residences.
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is in the process of putting the finishing touches on proposed regulations that would make living in an RV or a mobile Tiny Home illegal for most people.
The proposed regulations, entitled “FR–5877–P–01 Manufactured Home Procedural and Enforcement Regulations; Revision of Exemption for Recreational Vehicles”, will redefine the industry, and force HUD regulations on those that live the lifestyle. The new regulations are set to modify a current exemption in the Manufactured Home Procedural and Enforcement Regulations. According to the proposed docket information, RVs would be defined as “a factory build vehicular structure, not certified as a manufactured home, designed only for recreational use and not as a primary residence or for permanent occupancy.”
This means your tiny homes will either fall under HUD regulations, forcing you to comply with HUD building codes or will be put on the exempt list, making your home illegal to use as a primary or permanent residence.
This is a huge hit for the thousands upon thousands of people who choose to give up their homes every year to live full-time in RVs and tiny homes. If this proposed regulation is adopted by HUD, most tiny homes that are built upon a mobile frame will be subjected to this regulation, and in essence, be declared RVs that are not suitable for year-round living.
The FR–5877–P–01 Manufactured Home Procedural and Enforcement Regulations; Revision of Exemption for Recreational Vehicles Summary Reads:
This proposed rule would modify the current exemption for recreational vehicles in the Manufactured Home Procedural and Enforcement Regulations. Under the current exemption, questions have arisen regarding whether park model recreational vehicles are regulated by HUD’s manufactured home program.
These park models are being produced with patio roofs, screened in porches, and other extensions that exceed the 400 square foot maximum exemption in the current regulations. Additionally, some of these models are being marketed as suitable for year round living. HUD’s proposed rule would permit recreational vehicle manufactures to certify that a unit is exempted from HUD’s regulations. Specifically, HUD’s proposed rule would define a recreational vehicle as a factory build vehicular structure, not certified as a manufactured home, designed only for recreational use and not as a primary residence or for permanent occupancy, and built and certified in accordance with either the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) 1192-2015, Standard for Recreational Vehicles, or the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) A119.5-15, Recreational Park Trailer Standard. In addition, to provide consumers notice regarding the manufacturing standards used to construct the unit, HUD’s rule would require that units claiming the exemption display a notice that identifies the standards used to construct the unit and states that the unit is designed only for recreational use, and not as a primary residence or permanent dwelling.
Regulated out of Existence
These new HUD Regulations are no accident. In my opinion, it is part of a larger effort to control every aspect of how we live, where we live, and what we do with our so-called freedoms.
As I’ve pointed out numerous times in the past, governments at all levels, from federal to local zoning boards, are attempting to regulate us out of existence. The only reason people even started to build their tiny homes on these mobile frames was to try to get around the maze of zoning laws that forbid them from building tiny homes on their own land.
Once this HUD ruling goes into affect, these tiny mobile homes will be a thing of the past. And when that happens, most tiny homes will be a thing of the past as well, since most areas of the country ban these types of homes from being permanently constructed as primary residences.
Just look at what happened to the people of Costilla County, Colorado, a community that became a haven for those who wanted to live the Off-Grid lifestyle.
Late last year, in an attempt to stop people from living off the grid, Costilla County, Colorado banned off-gridders from camping on their own Land.
Twenty-year resident Paul Skinner summed it up at the planning commission meeting, “We are residents who have come to live off the grid. It’s all our land.” … “These are harsh economic times. We have nowhere to go.”
“We’ve been regulated out of life,” resident Robin Rutan told CPR. “I came here because I couldn’t live by the codes [in other regions]”
And that really sums up what this is all about; we are being regulated out of existence; forced to live in a way that the government says we ought to live. Our very freedoms, and constitutional guarantees of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are being torn from us as the country sits back and takes it.
From the White House using race as an excuse to change national zoning laws and define who can live in certain neighborhoods, to global corporations using eminent domain to steal homes, to the city of Seattle trying to ban single-family homes, there is a war on self-reliance brewing.
It’s becoming harder and harder for independent, freedom-minded people to live the lives that they want to live. These aren’t bad people, they are families just trying to live the American Dream; unfortunately, freedom loving Americans seem to be under attack from every direction!
It seems that there may be a simple, though somewhat expensive, solution to some of the problem posed here. Regarding “permanent occupancy” or “year-round living”, etc., if one had two small houses of some sort (tiny houses, small trailers, etc.) and split time living in them between them …
Or could one move out (as for vacation, etc.) for a week or two each year? Etc. Would have to search the terms such as “occupancy”, etc.
Banning these kinds of homes in some cases could mean more homeless people
Hey Al, sorry, but I live in the farm lands of North Central Florida and have seen more of what you are describing happening with many more ‘non-tiny’ dwellers outside and sometimes inside the cities!
Congratulations on electing all them Small Gub’mint Trumpublicans!
This has been communist America 4 more than 20 yrs everybody has their noses stuck up every1s asss telling them how they can or can’t live, wat they can or can’t have and if they don’t like wat u have they either bend laws 2 get their way and if that don’t work make up a law so they can take wat they want.
I guess you could say the govt is a prepper here.
As they are gearing up for agenda 2030.
Stack n Pack em by the railroad tracks.
Also heard they taking aim at the vitamin and supplement markets again -the premaintenance health nuts, who are trying to keep far away from the allopathic medical industrial complex. Forcing you to pay 100.00 for a bottle of vitamin C, along with it dr’s prescription.
Prepping again Beware the “CODEX ALIMENTARIUS.”
THIS IS ANOTHER BIG STEP OF OUR GOVERNMENT GOING DEEPER INTO COMMUNISM-THIS IS SO STUPID & WE AS A FREE NATION MUST FIGHT THIS INSANE BULLSHIT!!!
I’m sooo confused by what I’m reading in these post, they seem so right on for the most part, yet the baffling part to me is most of these post I totally agree with…are people that seem to vote for the idiot mob boss president we have now that makes all these post I’ve just read even worse. I don’t understand I know most people aren’t dumb or stupid, is it that you all think the environment killing money reblicans are not really the problem by de regulating all the environmentally challenged company’s I’m reading about in most of the post I just read, what am I miss understanding here.
are none of you people who dissent patriots or veterans? as you are individually singled out and effected stand up for yourself. imagine if the first woman raped by cosby had just taken some personal justice and put a bullet in him. how many would have been spared? what an example for the next person who did the same. if you have to get your personal justice and are caught and charged and i can be on your jury it will be not guilty and i hope you do the same for me. its going to take ALOT of PJ and jury nullification to drain this swamp of corruption.
Stay out of our business!!! You are in office to help Americans, not control and destory.We the people are so tired of your CRAP!!Trying to force people into cramped appartment buildings.
It is not illegal to be low income. Myself, I am sick to death of these know-it-all government officials singling out this group of americans for unwarranted restrictions.
This is simply just not true. Where do you get your information from??
So??? The whole unalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness is the easiest way to fix the knucklheads coming up with this junk. liberty in that context is defined as “liberty is the ability to do as one pleases. In modern politics, liberty is the state of being free within society from oppressive restrictions imposed by authority on one’s way of life, behavior, or political views.” In my opinion, this kind of hits the nail on the head with the oppressive restrictions imposed. As a matter of fact these tiny houses are already 100% illegal in TN no matter what you do. I was looking at this for a small farm/Tiny house lifestyle but it’s looking like this is not going to be an option
The War on the Poor continues. If there is no money in it for people that don’t know what real work is, then they’ll make a law.