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Report On Compiling And Analyzing Manufactured Housing Tax Records:, Portland State University. Hatfield School Of Government. Center For Public Service, Stephanie Hawke, Robert Cheney, Aaron Kaufman Jun 2016

Report On Compiling And Analyzing Manufactured Housing Tax Records:, Portland State University. Hatfield School Of Government. Center For Public Service, Stephanie Hawke, Robert Cheney, Aaron Kaufman

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In January of 2016, the Center for Public Service (CPS) was approached by Energy Trust of Oregon to conduct a review of the tax assessor data on manufactured houses in Oregon. The purpose of this review was to find the average age at which manufactured housing units in Oregon are decommissioned. A brief review of the literature on this topic that has been published indicated that this question had not yet been answered in the field.

Energy Trust Oregon is invested in making manufactured housing living more energy efficient, and less costly for occupants. To that end, the organization designed …