OSTA
Advocate for Resident Rights
Learn How To Make a Difference
Improving Tenant Lives One Legislative Session at a Time
OSTA has been advocating for park tenants since 1977. OSTA members were instrumental in forming the Manufactured Housing Landlord-Tenant Coalition which has existed since 1997. The Coalition has, since its inception, negotiated and gotten adopted a bill amending Manufactured Housing Landlord-Tenant law in every long legislative session since then. That’s over 12 consecutive legislative sessions. The secrets to our success are our thorough, detailed work, and our collaborative, consensus-building style.
The Oregon legislature likes collaboration among normally competing groups over complex and contentious issues. The Coalition was created, when the two sides – Manufactured Housing Park Landlords versus Manufactured Housing Park Residents – testified on opposite sides on a complex bill before the 1997 legislature. The committee chair, then State Senator Bill Kennemer, told the groups to go away and not come back until they had worked out an agreement. We did that, and have been doing so ever since.
The Coalition successes have included probably half of the statutes applicable to manufactured housing parks, and some applicable to marina tenancies, too.
Legislative Action Today
The Coalition is no longer in action today, but OSTA continues to work with other tenant advocacy groups and the channels for communication between the Landlords groups and those like OSTA remain open for collaboration. In today’s legislative climate, it is truly through our member’s actions and the actions of other residents statewide, that we are able to get legislation pushed through.
Take an active part in shaping future legislation.
ADVOCACY
Advocacy encompasses the actions one takes in order to effect change for a cause they are invested in.
Is There An Issue That is Important to You?
Are you experiencing issues at your park or marina that aren’t addressed by the law?
Or, perhaps, you are not satisfied with the current laws?
Check out our current campaigns to see if we are covering a topic that interests you and get involved with us!
OSTA Fights for YOU
Since 1977, OSTA has been fighting to positively impact park and maria tenants’ lives.
Nearly every right and protection that we have that is above and beyond apartment tenant rights was fought for and won by OSTA members.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.