Salem mobile home tenants testify in support of rent limits

In mid-November, dozens of residents at Salem’s Terrace Lake Park senior mobile home community made their way to the shared clubhouse, where they’d asked their elected officials to hear them out.

The residents on fixed incomes said they were facing higher and higher rents for the land their homes sat on, with some seeing rent jump 10% each year for the past several years — the current legal cap. They said some were choosing between…