Twin Cedars Meet the Candidate
Sponsored by the Twin Cedars Homeowners Association Board
MEET THE CANDIDATES
District 11 House Representative
Homeowners were invited to bring friends and family for a casual and welcoming opportunity to meet the candidates who may represent them in Salem in the coming years. Each candidate shared their platform and took time to answer thoughtful questions from attendees. The relaxed, informal setting made it easy to connect, have meaningful conversations, and get to know the candidates on a more personal level.
Dessert was served.
Ivan Maluski
Ivan is a farmer and rancher from Sico.
He joined us in Salem in 2025, on two occasions,
to support manufactured and floating homeowners
and even provided written testimony in support of HB3054
Angelita Sanchez
Angelita is a member of the Sweet Home City Council and a proud
seventh-generation Oregonian. She previously served as a
Legislative Assistant to Senator Hayden and played a key role
in coordinating a meeting between homeowners and the
Senator—an effort that helped lead to his “yes” vote on HB3054.
We encourage every community to invite local candidates to visit and connect with residents before they begin their work in Salem. These early conversations create a valuable opportunity, not only for you to get to know the candidates, but for them to truly understand the people and communities they hope to represent.
This is our chance to share the real, day-to-day challenges we face in manufactured and floating home communities—especially when park owners or their representatives fail to follow the laws designed to protect homeowners. Or failing to maintain the infrastructure. By opening this dialogue now, candidates can gain firsthand insight into how issues like rising rents and reset rates are impacting the value of our homes and our quality of life.
Just as importantly, it gives us the opportunity to ask meaningful questions: Will they support stronger enforcement of existing laws? Will they stand with our communities in Salem?
Our living situation is unique, and building these personal relationships before the legislative session begins helps ensure our voices are heard where it matters most.
Letter to the Editor- Senior Mobile Home Park Residents Worried About Future
Deann Sweeper, a long-time friend and member of OSTA writes to us,
Senior Mobile Home Park Residents Worried About Future
We residents who live at Lakewood Vista, a 55+ mobile home park in north Eugene, received a letter dated April 2, 2026, that our park is now on the market for sale and we had until April 20 to advise the owners if we would be interested in purchasing this park ourselves. We held an emergency meeting of residents and voted to go forward with this plan.
To form the co-op, we have several steps we must take and are working with a nonprofit organization here in Oregon to help us. Obviously, with 184 homes, several vacant, we will need financing to raise the multi-million dollar cost to buy this property and are looking for grants and/or low-interest loans. We know there are others who find this property desirable for possible other uses. If we are outbid by one of these corporations, Oregon law states they can move us out of our homes for $8,000.
This could literally put about 275 old and disabled people who mainly survive only on Social Security out on the street. Even if another corporation wants to keep this mobile home park as it is, Oregon rent is capped at 6% growth a year, but our Social Security increase was only half that amount. We already have residents who are being pushed out by rent increases. Nationally, the average co-op park has a rent increase of 0.9%.
We are writing this letter as a means to inform the public on just one housing situation here in Eugene with hopes that other residents will raise their voices to our elected officials to help promote housing for all low-income people. Demographically, we are a wonderful mix of people of all political parties, levels of education and work experience, ethnicity, gender identity and veterans. We are trying to preserve a way of life that shows we, with our diversity, can unite together for the general good of all.
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