GSMOL News
[Santa Barbara County] Planning Commission Will Consider Protections for Senior Mobile Home Parks
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...
Petaluma countersues mobile home park operator, continuing dispute over who can live there
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...
San Jose says mobile home park owner can’t raise rent
by Vicente Vera | Source A San Jose mobile home park with hundreds of spaces has failed to get city approval for a proposed rent increase. Officials with the San Jose Rent Stabilization Program have denied the Golden Wheel Mobile Home Park owner’s request to raise...
[State Assemblymember] Connolly proposes protections for mobile home residents
By Cameron Macdonald | Source Assemblymember Damon Connolly has introduced two bills that aim to strengthen protections for mobile home residents. AB 456 would stop mobile home park managers from requiring residents to repair their homes’ interiors before the...
Assemblymember Connolly Introduces AB 456 to Strengthen Protections for Mobilehome Residents
GSMOL is sponsoring this bill. For information on bills GSMOL is sponsoring, supporting or opposing, see the 2025 Bills page under the...
A Night of Unity and Strength in Petaluma
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GSMOL MRL Handbook 2025 Now Available On Our Website!
In the past, the Senate Select Committee for Manufactured Homes has produced an MRL Handbook, which included the current Mobilehome Residency Law, other state laws applying to MH parks, the RV Park laws, the Frequently Asked Questions that have been submitted to their...
AB 2782: Repeal of the Civil Code 798.17 Long-Term Lease Exemption
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Will the New Long Term Lease Law Take Effect January 1? GSMOL Attorney Bruce Stanton answers this question
AB 2782, sponsored by GSMOL, was approved by the Governor on August 31, 2020, and took effect January 1, 2021. Civil Code 798.17 has long provided that leases which exceed 12 months in length are exempt from local rent stabilization ordinance (RSO) protection. AB...
County Supervisors Take Steps to Protect Senior Mobile Home Parks
The board votes to prepare a temporary moratorium on changing 55-and-up parks to all-ages By Daniel Green | Source The Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors responded to community outcry over a proposal to convert a senior mobile home park to an all-ages community...
