# H.R. 5184 (119th): Affordable Housing Over Mandating Efficiency Standards Act or the Affordable HOMES Act

Affordable Housing Over Mandating Efficiency Standards Act or the Affordable HOMES Act This bill rescinds Department of Energy (DOE) energy efficiency regulations applicable to manufactured housing and eliminates DOE’s authority to issue similar regulations. Specifically, the bill rescinds the DOE final rule titled Energy Conservation Program: Energy Conservation Standards for Manufactured Housing and published on May 31, 2022. Under the bill, DOE may provide recommendations to the Department of Housing and Urban Development for revisions to energy conservation standards applicable to manufactured housing. These recommendations must comply with criteria established by the bill, including by being based on the determination of the cost-effectiveness of such revision.

## How this bill is scored

Tier: no Tier 1 record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Lane: affordability. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: appropriations. Category: corruption_stewardship. Lane tag: general equity.
Lane: economic_policy. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: energy_policy. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: housing_policy. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: regulatory_rollback. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Tier 1 sign-off: no record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Stored polarity: mixed. Only tags the rules mark scoreable on a mixed bill are scored. A yea can draw a penalty or a credit according to the tag. A nay on a tag scored as good can draw a penalty.
Roll 12: On Passage. Vote type: final_passage.
Polarity rationale: Reviewed enrichment (llm_import) polarity: The bill combines a plausible affordability and regulatory-burden good with real concerns about weakening energy efficiency protections for consumers in manufactured housing. Nothing in the metadata shows direct advancement of moral evil, so this is a prudential dispute rather than a clear good or evil classification. The existing 'appropriations' tag appears inaccurate for this regulatory measure.
Theological note: The bill concerns how government balances housing affordability against energy efficiency rules for manufactured homes, which bears on stewardship of resources and on care for lower-income households. Scripture supports both provision for the poor and faithful stewardship, but this measure mainly raises a prudential question about the proper scope of federal regulation rather than a direct moral harm.

## Recorded votes

Roll 12: On Passage. Yea 263 · Nay 147 · Other 21.

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