HUD Executives Tour Champion® Homes Manufacturing Facility as HUD Spotlights Manufactured Homes as a Key Solution to the U.S. Housing Shortage

June 03, 2025 06:15 AM AEST | By EODHD
 HUD Executives Tour Champion® Homes Manufacturing Facility as HUD Spotlights Manufactured Homes as a Key Solution to the U.S. Housing Shortage
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TROY, Mich., June 02, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Champion Homes, Inc. (NYSE:SKY) ("Champion Homes") today announced that U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Assistant Deputy Secretary (ADS)/Region 3 Regional Administrator (RA) Joseph DeFelice, and HUD Office of Housing Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary (PDAS) Frank Cassidy toured their Leola, Pennsylvania manufacturing facility and retail center last month. "We are honored to have welcomed HUD executives, including Joseph DeFelice and Frank Cassidy, to tour our homes—and even more excited that they experienced firsthand the efficiency and quality of our construction process during their visit to our Leola, Pa., facility," said Champion Homes President and CEO Tim Larson. "These visits reflect HUD’s growing support in addressing the nation’s affordable housing shortage with offsite construction." On May 8, ADS/RA DeFelice and PDAS Cassidy visited Champion Homes’s Leola, Pa., manufacturing facility and its accompanying Champion Homes Center retail store where he toured two of Champion’s newer single-family manufactured home models, the Embrace Sunlight and the Embrace Calm.

HUD Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Frank Cassidy and several other HUD representatives accompanied him on the tour. Michael Moglia, Chief, Housing & Buildings Standards Division at PA DCED and Kirby Smith, Director at PCFS were also on site. The tour in Leola occurred only two days after HUD Secretary Scott Turner visited three of Champion’s homes at the Manufactured Housing Institute Congress & Expo in Orlando, Fla. "The excitement around our housing solution was evident as the group toured the facility and walked through our homes," said Champion Homes Regional Vice President David Reed During the tour, attendees were provided with an in-depth look at the factory where the homes are built, showcasing the streamlined, highly efficient process that addresses traditional onsite construction challenges. Conventional home building often encounters delays and inconsistencies because multiple work crews manage different phases of the build, whereas the factory-built model streamlines the entire process under one roof with a coordinated workforce.

This allows for greater quality control, consistency, and speed, with each step seamlessly integrated from start to finish. Streamlining and coordinating the workforce in a centralized location also helps to address increasing labor cost and shortage trends in the construction industry, while providing skilled labor a year-round workplace that’s sheltered from the elements. Story Continues "For all of this to work, all of the different factions have to come together—the manufacturer, the state, the federal government and the third-party inspectors focused on the same goal," said Rich Olenhouse, General Manager of Champion Homes’s Leola, Pa., manufacturing facility. About Champion Homes, Inc. Champion Homes, Inc.

(NYSE:SKY) is a leading producer of factory-built housing in North America and employs more than 9,000 people. With more than 70 years of homebuilding experience and 46 manufacturing facilities throughout the United States and western Canada, Champion Homes is well positioned with an innovative portfolio of manufactured and modular homes, ADUs, park-models and modular buildings for the single-family, multi-family and hospitality sectors. In addition to its core home building business, Champion Homes provides construction services to install and set-up factory-built homes, operates a factory-direct retail business with 72 retail locations across the United States and operates Star Fleet Trucking, providing transportation services to the manufactured housing and other industries from several dispatch locations across the United States. Manufactured and Modular Homes www.championhomes.com www.skylinehomes.com www.genesishomes.com Park Model RVs www.championparkmodelscabins.com Star Fleet Trucking www.starfleettrucking.com View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250602253348/en/ Contacts Investors Name: Jason Blair, Investor Relations Manager Email: [email protected] Phone: (248) 614-8211 View Comments

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