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Residents urge committee to expand manufactured-housing dispute resolution, reinstate oversight board
Summary
At a hearing on manufactured housing and condominium disputes, resident speakers recounted mediation failures, steep lot‑rent increases, and barriers to legal remedies after the Manufactured Housing Board was repealed; witnesses asked the committee to include investor-owned parks and reinstate enforcement mechanisms.
The Commerce and Consumer Affairs subcommittee spent several hours hearing resident testimony and industry responses on SB 64 and related condominium dispute-resolution proposals. Multiple residents from investor-owned parks described problems they said remain unresolved after the state’s Manufactured Housing Board was repealed, and they urged lawmakers to include investor-owned parks in any dispute-resolution mechanism and to restore an oversight body.
Patty Cole of Great Brook Village told the committee she wants the bill to "include all manufactured home parks in…
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