Oregon official promised accountability on defective wildfire survivor housing. What happened?

Royal Oaks Mobile Manor in Phoenix, pictured last September, has been partially rebuilt since the Almeda Fire but no wildfire survivors have been able to move in. Oregon housing officials recently deemed the modular homes uninhabitable and said they would completely replace them.Beth Nakamura

Oregon housing officials have not taken any steps to recoup payments to a company that delivered modular housing for 2020 wildfire survivors that the state ultimately concluded was uninhabitable, despite promising last year to ensure accountability.

“Our communities deserve better,” Ryan Flynn, Oregon’s assistant director for disaster recovery, said in a statement to The Oregonian/OregonLive last September. “And we are going to do everything in our power to hold this contractor accountable.”

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