Community Updates

By:  Ken Pryor, Program Coordinator, Oregon Housing & Community Services, Manufactured Communities Resource CenterMediation:To anyone that owns or manages a manufactured home park, conflict is a given, a part of the landscape and as common as breathing. However, as familiar as we are with…

Financing Your Community Feature Article: Anthony J. DiMarco and Gerard D. DiMarco Almost every community owner at some point in time will experience the need for financing of some kind. There have been many ups, downs, and complexities of the financial markets over the past 25 years, and the…

Financing Your Community Feature Article: Anthony J. DiMarco and Gerard D. DiMarco Almost every community owner at some point in time will experience the need for financing of some kind. There have been many ups, downs, and complexities of the financial markets over the past 25 years, and the…

Earlier this week the 2015 Oregon Legislative Session adjourned.    This session was notable for two reasons - the first for passing MHCO's long awaited changes eliminating past due taxes on abandoned homes and the second for the tenacity of rent control to raise it's head in floor debates, a…

Yesterday, Oregon Governor Kate Brown signed the coalition bill (HB 3016).  The abandonment/past due tax portion of the bill will go into effect on January 1, 2016. MHCO has already been working with Phil Querin and Diane Belt (Oregon Tax Assessors) to create the forms necessary to take advantage…

This morning the Oregon State Senate passed the 2015 Landlord-Tenant Coalition Bill on a vote of 29-0 with one Senator absent.  The bill now moves on to Governor Kate Brown's desk for signature.  MHCO is THRILLED that a long standing legislative goal - the ELIMINATION of the requirement that…

The last two weeks in the Oregon Legislature have been hectic.  Yesterday was the deadline for bills in their originating chamber to move out of that chamber.  In other words, House bills need to be out of House Committees and Senate bills had to be out of the Senate.  This results in a large…

On Monday morning the Oregon House of Reprentatives unanimously passed HB 3016 - the manufactured home landlord-tenant bill. This legislation contains the elimination of past due property taxes on an abandoned home when the community owner wants to purchase the abandoned home. This is MHCO's top…

 Yesterday afternoon the coalition bill (HB 3016) passed out of the House Human Services and Housing Committee late yesterday afternoon on a unanimous vote.  Representative Parrish (R - West Linn) will carry the bill.    I expect the bill to pass out of the House later next week.  This legislation…

H.R. 650 Clears Key Hurdle in U.S. House The House Financial Services Committee today passed H.R. 650, bipartisan legislation to protect the availability of financing for manufactured homes.  Introduced by Representatives Stephen Fincher (R-TN), Terri Sewell (D-AL), Andy Barr (R-KY), and Kyrsten…