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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 3, 1981)
Mobile home residents work to stabilize rents By MARIAN GREEN Ot ttw Emarald A group of determined mobile home owners are battling to stop mobile home park owners from indiscriminately raising rents In October, residents of several mobile home parks began gathering signatures for a country-wide rent stabilization initiative for the May primary ballot The initiative seeks to prohibit rent increases until Dec 1982 Beginning in January. 1983, it would roll back rent to the amount charged in September, 1980 In addition, the initiative would allow an annual increase not to exceed the consumer price index for that year By Jan 5, the initiative spon sors must submit 8,300 signa tures from Eugene, 6,514 from Lane County and 2,310 from Springfield to place the initiative on the ballot “We've got just about half enough," says Jewell Walls, a mobile home park resident and one of the initiative's authors. The initiative is in response to rent increases that some renters say are arbitrary and out of I ,ne For example, within the last year renters in three mobile home parks have received increases that total more than $30, Walls says Those renters now pay about $150 for mobile home lots, she says “Can you imagine paying $150 to park your mobile home on a little lot? This is what we are fighting against.” she says Lane County has 125 parks (53 in Eugene), for a total of more than 6,000 mobile home spaces Walls says the increases are Olum offers funds; PNRC stays awhile Case closed University Pres Paul Olum slammed the door Wednesday on the controversy about when the Pacific Northwest Resource Center will move off-campus It won't happen until after this academic year Releasing previously "frozen" money. Olum an nounced the law school will be able to maintain the PNRC branch of the Environment al Law Clinic through this year The money will be used to hire an additional law professor and secretary and to pay operational costs "In response to a unan imous request from the faculty of the law school, who are concerned about the educational programs of the students already enrolled in environmental law this spring we have agreed that the PNRC will continue in its present location through spring and will be discon tinued at the end of the semester on June 1,” Olum said The PNRC became the object of controversy when questions of the University's neutrality were raised almost a year ago Recently, the National Wildlife Federation, which granted funds for the PNRC operation, decided to relocate in Portland at a "regional office ” Several students ex pressed concern that the en vironmental law clinic would collapse if the funding of the PNRC was removed “working hardships’’ on the renters, most of whom are re tired and live on fixed incomes "It hurts people It’s taking food out of their mouths,” she says "The landlords could care less whether you have anything left oyer to eat,” Walls says mobile home owners invest anywhere from $20,000 to $70,000 in their homes "They have more invested in their homes than the landlords have invested in the land. You’re more or less a prisoner of the landlord because you can’t move out like you can in an apartment,” says Byron Littlefield, a Briarwood Mobile Home Park resident. “They can raise rent on 30-days notice. ” And moving costs for mobile homes run from $2,400 to $3,000, Littlefield says “Some people can’t afford to move.” Littlefield adds that the initia tive is fair to the landlords because it allows for an annual increase "If I was a park owner, I'd be satisfied " TMf OR toon SMAKtSPf.ARf.APl fT.STIVAl on TOUR WITH atnol tugards Appearing at sotrra Euocpft mort senoot Atiorraftiun I9fh Ar Mlyard Mrcft» Eugene December 4 Be 5. 1981 8 P.n. 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