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
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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 "
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