Legislation

Just over a year ago a story broke on the Sunday front page of 'The Eugene Register Guard' about several elderly residents in a Eugene park who claimed to have been swindled by one or more persons affiliated with the park management.  The community became the topic of discussion in legislative circles and the landlord-tenant coalition.

We crossed a significant threshold this week in the Oregon Legislature with a number of bills going to the legislative graveyard.  MHCO is tracking and working to defeat/pass a number of bills this session.  Rent Control (SB 608) was not the only bill that concerned MHCO this legislative session.

On February 28, 2019 SB 608 (rent control) was signed into law.  MHCO has received numerous questions regarding the new statute.  We asked MHCO Legal Counsel to review 10 of the most frequent questions and provide answers.  This is the first of many Q&As regarding Oregon's new law.

We are now wrapping up week 3 of the 2019 Oregon Legislative Session.  A lot of new legislative proposals have been submitted making this one of the most active legislative sessions in recent memory.  The Senate this week passed the most sweeping changes to Oregon Landlord-Tenant law in three decades with the passage of SB 608.

Attached is Phil Querin's detailed analysis of SB 608 (Rent Control).  SB 608 will be up for a public hearing on Monday, February 4th at 3 pm.  Information on written and public testimony will be forth coming early next week.  

Attached is a copy legislation impacting manufactured home communities.  Many of these legislative concepts we have seen before in past sessions.  Of specific interest is SB 586 which is the coalition bill.  This bill will be completely revised in February.  The other priority bill is the rent control bill - SB 608.

This is the first of many legislative updates for 2019.

There is an old saying coined by the Salem 'Statesman Journal' that during the Oregon Legislative Session no man's or women's horse or home is safe."  This certainly applies to the 2019 Legislative Session.

As many of you know the November 2018 General Election was not kind to landlords

The 2018 Midterm Elections are over and the results are worse than expected.