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...				
					
			
					
				
															
					
					May 6, 2025
The proposed ordinance would prevent owners from changing senior parks to all ages and provide more protection from development By Daniel Green | Source The County of Santa Barbara is moving closer to protecting senior mobile home parks. On Wednesday, the County...				
					
			
					
				
															
					
					Mar 10, 2025
By Jennifer Sawhney | Source The city’s lawsuit seeks to enforce Youngstown Mobile Home Park’s designation as a seniors-only residential area. Park operators claim the city’s ordinance regulating that designation is unlawful and discriminatory. They say they will...