Community Updates

After working through much of the 4th of July weekend and holiday legislators wrapped up their legislative business today. The last bill that MHCO opposed - HB 2004B - did not move out of the Senate. The Senate Rules Committee adopted numerous amendments none of which could get the necessary 16…

A federal jury recently returned a $37,343 verdict against a Montana landlord for charging a resident with physical and psychiatric disabilities $1,000 to have a service animal, according to the Justice Department. The lawsuit alleged that the owner and manager of rental properties in Bozeman…

This afternoon the Senate Committee on Human Services amended HB2004A with a dash 9 amendment that DOES NOT include rent stabilization, rent control or the elimination of the preemption of local rent control. The dash 9 amendment is attached below and replaces all of the language from the original…

 We are in the home stretch of the 2017 Oregon Legislative Session. The target adjournment date is June 23rd, the constitutional deadline for adjournment is July 10th. The actual date will fall somewhere between the two - most likely in late June. Significant budget, tax, transportation issues…

Tony Petosa and Nick Bertino - Wells Fargo Multifamily CapitalFrom both a global and national perspective, we are in the midst of witnessing major change unfold as President Trump takes over the reins from the Obama administration. It is undeniable that material shifts in policy are in the works,…

 We are now well into the second half of the 2017 Oregon Legislative Session.   There finally is some good news - most of the bad legislative proposals that MHCO has been tracking have been defeated.  There are four remaining bills - two that MHCO supports and two that MHCO opposes that are still…

 There are several significant deadlines in the Oregon Legislature that start to willow down the life span of legislative proposals. The first of these deadlines was last Friday, April 7th. As of midnight on last Friday any bill in a committee in the chamber of origin (Senate bills in the Senate…

By Zach KoucosDirector, Holliday, Fenoglio, Fowler (HFF)The second half of 2016 and early 2017 signaled a great amount of uncertainty regarding the future of fiscal and regulatory policy in the United States. While everyone is trying to figure out what the impacts of policy changes by the Trump…

We are now into the fifth week of the 2017 Oregon Legislative Session. Last week MHCO held a very successful Lobby Day on Wednesday, February 22nd. We have a great turnout - 93 attendees - who met with 76 Legislators. Thank you to everyone who made the effort to attend and visit with their Senator…

By: Arthur Grebow, founding partner of Grebow and Rubin,?LLPThere is an old Chinese curse which says: May you live in interesting times." While sometimes taken as a blessing