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Rebuilding Heritage Village – with union help
Volunteers fix homes to stop evictions
in a manufactured home community.
BEAVERTON, Ore. — Union volun-
teers spent Saturday Oct. 22 fixing up
manufactured homes for residents
who fear eviction if the repairs aren’t
made. Residents of the Heritage Vil-
lage manufactured home community
in Beaverton mostly own their homes,
but pay land rent to a California prop-
erty management company called
Cal-Am Properties. Starting in June,
Cal-Am wrote to residents demanding
that all kinds of repairs and improve-
ments be done within 30 days.
For low-income senior and dis-
abled residents, it was a frightening
letter to receive. Diane Bareno and her
husband Elias, both disabled and col-
lecting Social Security, pay $721 a
month rent to Cal-Am. They were told
in a July 8 letter to remove wooden
and chainlink fences, paint their win-
dow trim, prune bushes, and remove
their stack of firewood — all within
30 days — after having lived 16 years
at Heritage Village.
Bareno says she didn’t know what
to do, because she and her husband
weren’t physically able to do the work
and didn’t have the money to pay for
it, even if they were able to find some-
Above, Heritage Village resident Diane
Bareno looks over demand letters she’s re-
ceived from Cal-Am Properties. Right, Ma-
chinists Lodge 1005 vice president Mike
McLaren — part of a crew of union volun-
teers — applies exterior paint.
one within such a short time frame.
Then she heard about Rebuilding To-
gether, and called for help.
Rebuilding Together is a non-profit
group that helps low-income people
with home repair. The group’s Wash-
ington County affiliate organized a
one-day home repair event to help six
Heritage Village households. Volun-
teers were supplied by the union-
sponsored Labor’s Community Serv-
ice Agency, St. Bartholomew’s
Episcopal Church in Beaverton, the
Hillsboro nonprofit Community Ac-
tion, and Pacific University Rotaract.
Supplies were paid for by Hillsboro
Elks Lodge #1862.