Wilsonville debates aid for mobile home owners

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Wilsonville debates aid for mobile home owners
Affordable housing - One proposal is for park owners who sell their land to relocate residents or buy their homes
Wednesday, September 21, 2005
LISA GRACE LEDNICER

WILSONVILLE -- Desperate to keep what little affordable housing it has, Wilsonville is pondering a controversial ordinance that would require owners of the city's mobile home parks to pay relocation costs or buy residents' homes outright if the parks close or are sold to developers.

The proposal comes in the wake of several mobile home park closures in the Portland area, which led to last month's passage in the Legislature of a measure that would grant a tax credit of up to $10,000 to mobile home park residents forced to move when their parks close. The measure also offered a break on capital gains taxes for owners who sell their parks to residents.

The law doesn't go far enough, say residents of Thunderbird Mobile Club, a 240-unit park just off Interstate 5 in Wilsonville. The mobile home park's owner has announced he wants to sell the park and will take offers starting at the end of the month.
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Outraged at city officials' discussion of offering a tax break to the developer of a massive subdivision on the city's northwest side, Thunderbird residents -- most of whom are elderly and living on fixed incomes -- urged City Council members Monday night to help the city's less fortunate, as well."