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Clover Commons residents target state senator’s New Kensington office in bid for mobile home rent control

The folks at Clover Commons are not giving up. With just a few weeks left in the Pennsylvania Senate’s legislative session, residents of Plum’s manufactured home community, Clover Commons, are rallying for one last push to get a rent control bill out of committee and on the state Senate floor

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Pittsburgh Tribune-Review· Sep 24, 3:32 PMClover Commons residents target state senator’s New Kensington office in bid for mobile home rent control

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