Jul 19, 2025
By Crystal Bermudez | Source Residents at Del Cielo Mobile Estates in Orcutt are speaking out about changes at their mobile home park following its purchase by a new owner. The concerns come as Santa Barbara County passed a new ordinance aimed at protecting...
Jul 3, 2025
By Jesse Kathan | Source At least 10 mobile-home residents have been displaced from Soquel Gardens RV Park in the past five years, and at least six more residents could be forced to move if county officials allow its closure and accept a redevelopment plan for 100 to...
Jun 28, 2025
By Max Chun | Source | A long-troubled mobile home park just up the hill from Soquel Village is facing an uncertain future after it was purchased out of bankruptcy earlier this year by a company with a history of hiking rents and attempting to close parks, raising...
May 22, 2025
By Caleb Wiseblood | Source Six months after issuing an urgency order to stop mobile home parks for seniors from broadening to welcome all ages, Santa Barbara County is one step closer to something more permanent. Adopted last November by the Board of Supervisors, the...
May 12, 2025
The proposed changes would establish requirements for ages and add greater protections for parks in unincorporated areas By Daniel Green | Source | Proposed protections for senior mobile home parks have passed the first hurdle and will now make their way to the next...
May 10, 2025
PEOPLE POWER!! These GSMOL members and other advocates testified and did “Me Toos” at the Capitol to support AB 806, a GSMOL-sponsored bill authored by Damon Connolly. Assemblymember Connolly is in the back row, second from right. The badges with...
