Mobilehome News Around the State
After Many Revisions, Fortuna City Council Passes Rent Guidelines for Mobile Homes
By Dezmond Remington | Source | After almost a year of advocacy and tinkering, Fortuna’s city council decided last night to adopt a rent stabilization ordinance for the 283 mobile homes within its city limits. Last summer, residents of the Royal Crest mobile home...
City of Fortuna Passes Rent Stabilization Ordinance Meant to Protect Seniors From Predatory Mobile Home Park Owners
By Liam Gwynn | Source | Since June of last year, a group of Fortuna seniors have been advocating for a rent stabilization ordinance for mobile home parks in the city. This was due to steep rent increases at the Royal Crest Mobile home park that residents say put...
Goleta Extends Senior Housing Protections, Is Sued in Federal Court
Goleta Says Ordinance Will Help Preserve Senior Housing While Park Owners Allege It Is Discriminatory Against Families By Christina McDermott | Source Goleta city councilmembers voted to maintain the senior-status of University Mobile Home Park on Tuesday, extending...
Goleta Extends Ordinance to Keep Mobile Home Park for Seniors Only
by Pricila Flores, Noozhawk Staff Writer | Source The Goleta City Council has extended the urgency ordinance to keep University Mobile Home Park a seniors-only community amid a federal lawsuit that park management served the city. The extension was approved last...
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...
San Rafael Trailer Park Showdown as Tenants Sue to Halt Evictions
By Nina Singh-Hudson | Source | In a tiny, tucked-away corner of San Rafael, a group of longtime residents is taking its landlord to court, saying a wave of pressure and paperwork is threatening to wipe out one of the city’s last relatively affordable enclaves....
