Following a story MHProNews.com first posted March 3, 2014 regarding the condemning and shuttering of Life O’Riley Mobile Home Park in Lansing, Michigan by the Ingham County Health Department, State Rep. Andy Schor (D-Lansing) plans to introduce legislation to give local authorities more control over manufactured home communities (MHCs). Currently, cities are limited in their access of MHCs, with power primarily residing with the state’s body, the Michigan Manufactured Housing Commission (MMHC), according to wlns6.com. He wants to grant cities the authority to monitor the health and safety of residents. “I’m looking at how we can make the law so that our local units of government, the ones who are closest to the (communities), can get in there and ensure that it’s safe [and] that we don’t have raw sewage on the ground and water connections not hooked up,” said Schor to MHProNews.com. ##

(Photo credit: Triangle Mobile Home Park, Battle Creek, MI)