GSMOL News

Golden State Manufactured-home Owners Education Fund (GSMOEF) presents a Virtual Townhall Saturday, January 22, 2022, 10:00 AM featuring Bruce Stanton, GSMOL Corporate Counsel speaking on New State Legislation and How it Impacts MH Owners You may attend via Zoom or...

By Annelise Handshaw | Source | The City of Santa Barbara has a plan to preserve 41 affordable housing units by deploying its housing authority to manage a mobile-home park on the brink of foreclosure. The City Council approved a $75,000 loan pay down, matched by the...

By Laura Place | Source | The North [Santa Barbara] County Manufactured Homeowners Team is not backing down from their fight for mobile home rent stabilization in Santa Maria, with several residents pleading their case during City Council public comment period for the...

See the Townhall Videos page for the Ed Fund's newest Townhall video and written summary!   There were 105 people on the Zoom / telephone meeting from all over the State to hear from GSMOL Corporate Counsel Bruce Stanton and get answers to their questions regarding...

By Laura Place | Source | Rich Bailey has been trying with great difficulty to stretch his $842 monthly Social Security check to cover the nearly $900 in rent charged for his lot at Casa Grande Mobile Home Park in Santa Maria. While the owners of Casa Grande have...

By Todd Guild | Source | WATSONVILLE—A Santa Cruz County Superior Court Judge on Oct. 14 sided with the residents of a mobile home park who had been battling a giant rent increase since 2017. Attorneys for the residents say the decision supports a County ordinance...

Governor Newsom signed AB 861 on October 8. Assembly Bill 861, authored by Steve Bennett and sponsored by GSMOL, will require management to comply with a rule or regulation prohibiting the renting or subleasing of the homeowner’s mobilehome or mobilehome space and...

Governor Newsom signed AB 1061 on October 7. Assembly Bill 1061, authored by Alex Lee and sponsored by GSMOL, will prohibit management from billing, collecting, or seeking to collect a separate charge for the provision of submetered water service beyond the amount...

By BRUCE STANTON, GSMOL General Counsel History: For nearly a decade the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has been holding hearings to consider transferring control of gas and electric systems in mobilehome parks back to the local serving utilities, such...

GSMOL attorney Bruce Stanton has updated his article on the re-opening of MHP facilities. To view or download the article, click HERE.