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United States of Tents (2019)
The movie raises several important themes, but misses a Congressional solution enacted over 20 years ago
First, the movie is well done on several levels. This is the type of topic that most people do not want to see. It's gut wrenching every time I watch a video that treats this issue objectively. The United States of Tents documentary mentions zoning several times. The film maker clearly favors tiny houses as part of the solution, which is trending and understandable. But there is nothing on how cities and town cause this crisis by zoning out the most proven and affordable type of housing in U. S. history, namely manufactured homes. That's not a slam at the video, because the manufactured home industry's largest trade group has arguably done a terrible job of education as well as on pressing for enforcement of the law that Congress passed to address affordable housing.
The Manufactured Housing Improvement Act of 2000 (MHIA) has a provision that's commonly called "enhanced preemption." Put the following including the quotation marks into a search engine of your choice to see what comes up.
"Manufactured Housing Improvement Act" "Enhanced Preemption"
Several items will come up, but not millions. If the film maker delves into the apparent failures and corruption behind the Arlington, VA based trade group that claims to represent "all segments" of manufactured housing, they'll have a useful bookend to this troubling but important one they already made.