Learn about House Bill 3054
The Bill has passed through the House floor and is now onto the Senate!
Amendments
AMENDMENTS TO HB 3054
Summary
- Change the rent increase limit from CPI to a straight 6 percent.
- Exempt small facilities, those with 30 or fewer spaces/slips. Current rent increase limit continues to apply (7 percent plus CPI capped at 10).
- Allow an exemption up to a 12 percent increase over any 12-month period once during any five-year period for infrastructure improvements if approved by an affirmative vote of tenants representing at least 51 percent of the spaces in the facility. Similar to rule change approvals in ORS 90.610 although requiring an affirmative vote, not objections.
- No changes to the limit on rent increases in home sales, aka vacancy decontrol/rent reset.
- Prohibit landlord from requiring aesthetic changes upon sale of a home.
- Prohibit landlord from requiring tenant to obtain or allow landlord to inspect the interior of the home as a condition of sale.
- No directive for OHCS to study park and marina water/sewer infrastructure needs.
Parts of HB 3054
the park landlord. These manufactured homes are permanently installed in place and cannot be
moved. Residents on fixed or limited incomes have few options when park costs escalate. Surging
rents are outstripping residents’ capacity to pay and threatening their ability to remain in homes
that were intended to be provide lifelong security.
SOLUTION:
Limit annual rent increases for homeowners in manufactured home parks
and marinas to increases in the Consumer Price Index.
Large rent increases between tenants can severely limit a park homeowner’s ability to sell their
manufactured home, compounding their difficulty responding to rent-burdens, unsatisfactory park
conditions, or other life changes. In extreme circumstances, residents may be forced to abandon
their home without sale, losing their assets and equity.
SOLUTION:
Limit any rent charged to a new tenant who purchases a home from a former
tenant to no more than 10% of the selling tenant’s rent.
Some park landlords require new buyers to complete and pay for aesthetic upgrades to units at the
time of sale. This creates significant barriers to manufactured home sales, suppressing the value of
the home and potentially discouraging transactions. (An example of an aesthetic improvement
would be replacing siding which is in good shape because the landlord prefers horizontal over
vertical siding.)
SOLUTION:
Prohibit landlords from requiring a selling tenant or a prospective purchaser
of a home from an existing tenant to make aesthetic or cosmetic improvements to the
home, only maintenance or repair items.
SOLUTION:
Prohibit a landlord from requiring a selling tenant or prospective purchaser
to provide or allow an inspection of the interior of the home as a condition for accepting
a notice of sale, approving a sale, or approving a purchaser as a new tenant.
SEARCH FOR YOUR DISTRICT REPRESENTATIVE
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Thousands around state say they face exorbitant space rent increases as corporate ownership or management impose stringent rules not in place when homeowners first moved in; state Rep. Pam Marsh is taking up the issue
By BUFFY POLLOCK Rogue Valley Times
- Jan 4, 2025
When 83-year-old Kayla Starr moved into Candlewood Park in Talent four years ago, the quiet “55 and older” mobile home park came with minimal maintenance and no amenities, but space rent for an older doublewide was an affordable $515 per month.
Starr, who has lived in the region for four decades, was drawn to the quiet neighborhood along Colver Road with a sense of community and enough space to grow some vegetables to help with monthly food costs.
Four years later, she’s one of thousands of mobile home park dwellers around the state facing exorbitant space rent increases and corporate ownership or management who impose, residents say, stringent rules not in place when they first moved in.
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Bill aims to protect tenants from rent hikes, mandates fair buyer application process
Bill aims to protect tenants from rent hikes, mandates fair buyer application process
by Vasili Varlamos
Mon, February 3rd 2025
SALEM, Ore. (KATU) — House Bill 3054 would reduce maximum rent increases for renters in manufactured living communities. The bill would require the rent increases to align with the Consumer Price Index.
Manufactured homes are individually owned homes that sit in rented living spaces. Those who live in these spaces are often seniors living on a fixed income. Many tenants are growing frustrated with year-over-year hikes, with some facing eviction.
Oregon Bill Would Cap Rent for Manufactured Home Park Owners: What to Know
Author Dianne Lugo
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.
Opponents, including park owners, argue the bill would lead to closures and sales to large corporations, exacerbating the housing crisis.
Oregon and Washington are preparing for fights over rent increases in manufactured home parks
Mobile home parks have also become a de facto source of low-income housing in places like Oregon, where housing production goals continue to lag and where building more homes is a key piece in addressing homelessness.