Community Updates

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…

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…