Community Updates

  By Phillip C. Querin, QUERIN LAW, LLC MHCO Legal Counsel   Update. The Oregon Judicial Department is responsible for drafting the Rental Assistance Notice for tenants facing a nonpayment eviction. It is required to be included with: Notices of nonpayment evictions issued by landlord; and…

House Bill 3054A affects four sections of Oregon’s manufactured housing  laws. Below is a summary of the changes.   ORS 90.324 (Calculation of maximum rent increases). The text in bold print is new:   1.   No later than September 30th of each year, the Oregon Department of Administrative…

Later this week, the Oregon House Committee on Housing and Homelessness will introduce an amendment to HB3054 (Rent Control & Vacancy Control). The committee is expected to adopt this amendment later in April. MHCO has been negotiating with Rep Marsh (Committee Chair), but no agreement was…

By Dianne Lugo Salem Statesman Journal - February 11, 2025 The bill that would cap rent increases for manufactured home parks and marinas to the annual inflation rate. Proponents of the bill say it would protect residents, many of whom are on fixed incomes, from exorbitant rent increases.…

Over the past 25 years that I have been Executive Director of MHCO we have fought numerous legislative battles from bans on 'subsequent sale' to 'rent control'.  We have always tried to be objective and avoid hyperbole.  Nothing has been as bad as the legislation we now face in the 2025 Oregon…

Oregon Legislative Session Begins with Catastrophic Rent Control and Vacancy Control Proposals   The 2025 Oregon Legislative Session has commenced.  Legislators wasted little time in filing a proposal to further restrict the ability of manufactured and floating home providers to raise rents…

2024 Fair Housing Litigation - Cases of Significance - Single Incident Must Be Egregious to Constitute Hostile Environment Harassment (First in a series of Six Articles) Why do landlords need a briefing on fair housing cases? The answer to that question is based on four facts:   Fact 1: The…

  |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…