Will Senate switch help mobile home bill?

Rachel May

Originally published in Riverhead News-Review

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For years, a bill to protect mobile-home owners against “unreasonable rent increases” has passed in the Democrat-controlled Assembly, but failed in the Republican-controlled Senate. 

“We have a much better chance than in years past because the Senate denied it every year,” said Peter Baldwin of Riverside, vice president of the Mobile/Manufactured Homeowners Association of Suffolk, a group that represents mobile-home owners.