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The 2015 Oregon Legislative Session convened this month with House and Senate Committees beginning their work the first week in February. There are a wide variety of issues the Oregon Legislature will be dealing with - many being repeats from previous sessions such as education funding and taxes that never seem to go away.
The Manufactured Housing Landlord-Tenant Coalition met again this month to discuss a number of issues as we head into the 2015 Oregon Legislative Session that is just over a month away.
Lengthy Discussion on Competing Sales Conflict"
The Manufactured Housing Landlord Tenant Coalition met earlier this week to continue negotiations on a variety of issues. Here is a summary of what is moving, what is not and what still needs to be discussed as we prepare for the 2015 Oregon Legislative Session.
Abandoned Manufactured Home and Back Taxes
Last week MHCO met with representatives of the Oregon county tax assessors and successfully negotiated the elimination of abandoned home back taxes.
The Manufactured Housing Landlord - Tenant Coalition (negotiations) convened again the end of last month (August 2014) to further discuss a number of issues that may potentially be adopted into legislation in 2015. Here is a summary of the latest developments on several key issues.
Last month the manufactured housing landlord-tenant coalition met to continue discussing issues in preparation for the 2015 Oregon Legislative session. As mentioned earlier, the coalition is a group of manufactured housing community interests - tenant organizations, landlord associations, banking interests, builders - that meet once a month to discuss industry issues.
The House Financial Services Committee Passes Bipartisan Legislation to Protect the Availability of Financing for Manufactured Homes (Editor's Note: As mentioned in the earlier article with the passage of similar legislation pending in the US Senate, MHCO is working with the Oregon Congressional delegation to ensure passage of this critical legislation.)