Help Kelly Butte Residents Save their Homes!

The Good: An old-fashioned community. Kelly Butte Manufactured Home Park is a 11-unit manufactured home park located at 3345 SE 112th Avenue, in SE Portland. The residents of Kelly Butte are an old-fashioned neighborhood community. They are primarily fixed income seniors, retirees, and low-income wage workers. They are people of color, people with disabilities, people with serious health issues, widowers, teachers, church-goers, tax payers, and good tenants and neighbors.

 

The Bad: Just 8 weeks before the city of Portland passed a major ordinance to protect manufactured home parks like Kelly Butte from redevelopment, a developer,  Adam Hoesly, saw the writing on the wall and put in permits to redevelop the property, effectively grandfathering him into the old-zoning rules.

 

The Ugly: Displacement and economic catastrophe. In October, 2020, in the middle of the pandemic, Hoesly served the Kelly Butte residents an eviction notice informing them that the park would close and they’d have until October 20th, 2021 to move their homes. Though moving and re-siting the homes costs over 60 thousand dollars, state law requires Hoesly to pay residents only $8000. Even if the cost of moving their homes weren’t prohibitive, there are no parks in Portland that have space for their homes.

 

Now what? The residents have organized to resist their displacement and save their park. They need your help. In addition to letting city hall know that you want to see them prevent displacement, the residents need to seek donations to fund expenses related to their impending displacement and the fight to prevent it. We are raising money for legal fees, direct action, and mutual aid for those residents who are the most imperiled.