GSMOL News
Residents of Bell mobile home parks push back against plan to relocate them, redevelop property
By Rob Hayes | Source | BELL, Calif. (KABC) -- Hundreds of people who live in two Bell mobile home parks may soon be displaced as the city works on plans to close the parks and sell them to be redeveloped into housing, retail and entertainment destinations. The city...
Sonoma mobile home park residents ask city to update mandated park protections
By Emma Molloy | Source | Sonoma leaders, in the coming weeks, will review a plan to update the city statute regulating mobile home park closures, conversions and cessation of use in response to mobile home park residents who say the city’s existing “outdated”...
Fortuna Mobile Home Rent Moratorium Passes
by Dezmond Remington | Source | As expected, Fortuna’s city council passed a moratorium freezing increases on lot rents in mobile home parks in the city at a special meeting last night. “We won,” said [GSMOL Region 2 Manager] Hilary Mosher, a spokesperson for the Save...
Close to Home: Keeping mobile homes affordable
Editorial published in the Press Democrat in response to an anti-rent-stabilization editorial published by a park owner By Anne B. Anderson | Anne B. Anderson is president of the Golden State Manufactured-home Owners League. | Source | The Golden State...
Senior mobile home park debate continues as county ordinance takes effect
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...
Soquel mobile home park owners seek 100 apartment redevelopment
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...
Long-troubled Soquel RV [actually mobilehome] park faces uncertain future under controversial new owner
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...
Santa Barbara County Planning Commission supports new zoning to protect 11 senior mobile home parks
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...
Protections for Senior Mobile Home Parks Clear [Santa Barbara County] Planning Commission
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...
AB 806 Passes Assembly Housing Committee – 4/30/25
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 hearts denote...
