GSMOL News
Goleta Protects Mobile Home Park’s Senior-Only Status with Urgency Ordinance
By Pricila Flores | Source | Anne Anderson, president of the Golden State Manufactured-home Owners League, says mobilehome park residents can’t just pick up and move if faced with management with whom they don’t agree. Pricila Flores / Noozhawk photo During a packed...
Dollars dispute: Del Cielo Mobile Estates residents fight back against a rent increase tied to lawsuit expenses
by Caleb Wiseblood | Source | Two attorneys. Seven witnesses. Eight hours of cross examination. Those with stakes in a recent arbitration hearing’s outcome will probably not hear Santa Barbara County’s verdict on a rent dispute between an Orcutt mobile home park’s...
Goleta to Consider Ordinance to Protect Senior Mobile Home Park
New Management at University Mobile Home Park Wants to Open Up Park to All Ages By Christina McDermott | Source | Tucked down toward the end of Pine and Rutherford Street in Old Town Goleta, neat rows of mobile homes form a quiet community. University Mobile Home Park...
Bell residents protest city’s plan to redevelop mobile home parks
By Matthew Rodriguez | Source | Hundreds of Bell residents protested against the plan to close two mobile home parks during the city council meeting on Wednesday. The city of Bell owns both of the mobile home parks, which house about 300 families. The plan aimed to...
Corona Council Approves Mobilehome Rent Stabilization After Broad Public Support
By: Created by AI | Source | NOTE: This article was created by AI. Corona City Council moved on and approved Item 6.2, a rent‑stabilization measure for mobile‑home parks, after multiple residents and advocates urged the council to adopt protections to keep long‑term...
SLO County supervisors reject rent increase for Harmony-managed mobile home parks
by Bulbul Rajagopal | Source| The San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors unanimously shot down controversial mobile home park management company Harmony Communities’ attempt to increase rent at two local mobile home parks through a hardship request. “When revenue...
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...
