Community Updates

  |Published: Nov. 10, 2024, 6:00 a.m. By Carlos Fuentes   While Democrats nationally react to stinging losses in the presidential race and U.S. Senate, Democratic lawmakers in Oregon received a boost in this fall’s election, flipping a key seat in the Legislature to expand their control in the…

HUD recently announced that it has charged a landlord and its property managers in Manchester, N.H. with violating the Fair Housing Act by retaliating, threatening, or interfering with a tenant’s fair housing rights. The charge alleges that, after the tenant filed a Fair Housing complaint with HUD…

  Introduction. Effective July 6, 2023 Oregon Senate Bill 611 amended Oregon’s landlord-tenant Rent Cap law. Section 5 of the Bill applies to manufactured housing tenancies and essentially mirrors the non-manufactured home tenancy section. SB 611 was substantially similar to its predecessor law…

MHCO Note:  Although the limit for 2025 will be set at 10%, housing providers should be aware that legislative action in 2025 could quickly change the limit formula downward.   |Published: Sep. 23, 2024, 'Oregonian'. Oregon landlords are allowed to raise rents by up to 10% in many residences…

While setting up a disaster plan for manufactured home communities, rv park or floating home community,  be sure to include steps that would reduce the risk of damage or injury.  Here are some actions to consider:   Keep trees healthy and strong.  Remove dead limbs immediately, and cut back…

  In addition to the plan you are developing for your manufactured home community, you should encourage each resident family to have its own disaster plan in place.  Residents should know what types of disaster could occur, and what they can do about each one.  A community newsletter is a good way…

  By Kriston Capps July 16, 2024 at 2:00 AM PDT Bloomberg Online   President Joe Biden is calling on Congress to pass a form of national rent control for some 20 million apartment units nationwide, a dramatic federal intervention in the housing market on behalf of current tenants. The…

Fair housing law generally prohibits discrimination based on familial status, but there’s a limited exception that applies to senior housing communities that qualify as “housing for older persons.” To qualify, senior housing communities must meet strict technical requirements. Unless they satisfy…

Introduction.  The Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) generally provides that when most employees work more than a 40-hour week, they are entitled to additional compensation. Commencing on July 1, 2024 the Department of Labor (“DOL”) regulations will provide new eligibility standards for overtime…

  By:  Rebekah Near, CEO, Orca Information, Inc.   Last article I wrote was titled, A COMMON MISTAKE WHEN DENYING APPLICANT COULD COST YOU THOUSANDS.  The focus of the topic was on giving your applicant who does not qualify for the unit the ADVERSE ACTION LETTER which is sometimes referred to…