Providing for the Concurrence By the House in the Senate Amendment to H.R. with Amendment

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Ms. BONAMICI. Mr. Speaker, the bill we are debating today, 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, is a meaningful investment in addressing the Nation's housing crisis. It appears to be a comprehensive legislation, but manufactured housing is left out.

For no good reason the House removed a bipartisan provision from this legislation that would revitalize manufactured housing communities. 22 million Americans, including many veterans, seniors, and working families, live in manufactured homes, and manufactured housing communities provide a critical source of attainable homeownership.

The Preservation and Reinvestment Initiative for Community Enhancement--or PRICE Act--helps to preserve existing low-cost homes at a fraction of the cost of new construction. Although this housing package makes major investments, rural communities and people living in manufactured houses are being left behind.

Both the President and Senate support keeping the PRICE program in the bill, so I urge my colleagues to add PRICE back in and recognize the needs of the millions of low-income Americans who live in manufactured housing communities.

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