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Council debates Vermont-style mandatory mediation and expansion of fair-rent commissions
Summary
The council discussed a proposed rent-mediation statute modeled on Vermont law and whether that approach or an expansion of fair-rent commissions (including regional or park-wide procedures) would better address large increases and coordinated resident responses. No formal action was taken.
The Mobile/Manufactured Home Advisory Council spent a substantial portion of its meeting debating whether Connecticut should adopt a rent-mediation system modeled on Vermont's long-standing law or instead expand and adapt existing fair-rent commissions.
"The Vermont law is not a rent cap law," Rafi said while outlining the model: mandatory mediation triggered when a resident association covering at least half the homes requests mediation for an increase above a defined threshold; mediation uses mediators drawn from a maintained list and typically…
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