Mobilehome News Around the State
State knew this Fresno mobile home park was unsafe – but didn’t tell city. Now one is dead
By Cassandra Garibay | Source | It took a deadly fire that killed one person and destroyed two homes for the city of Fresno to become involved with a mobile home park whose license to operate had been suspended by the state three months prior. Now the California...
Update on Availability of Common Area Facilities by GSMOL Counsel Bruce Stanton
GSMOL Corporate Counsel Bruce Stanton has posted an updated opinion on the availability of common area facilities such as clubhouses and swimming pools as the COVID-19 restrictions ease within a particular area. Read and/or download it HERE.
Mountain View poised to pass mobile home rent control by September
By Kevin Forestieri | Source | Mountain View City Council members agreed Tuesday night to prioritize extending rent control to mobile homes, unanimously agreeing to fast-track an ordinance that's set to come before the council as soon as August. The decision comes...
Fresno County will consider rent control for mobile home parks
By Monica Vaughan | Source | Fresno County supervisors will consider a rent control policy to limit price gouging at the 98 mobile home parks in rural parts of the county — a direct result of organizing by a large family of indigenous farmworkers from Oaxaca who...
Former Journey’s End residents win settlement from insurance company
By Will Schmitt | Source | Inger Simonsen didn’t have a car when she was living in Santa Rosa’s Journey’s End mobile home park in October 2017. The night of the Tubbs fire, she had to be roused by her son and daughter-in-law, who lived a half a block away in the park....
Sandpiper Mobile Home Village land ownership changes hands in $20 million sale
By Leslie Westbrook | Source | Last summer, Bob Franco’s curiosity was sparked by a land surveyor at the Sandpiper Mobile Home Village [in Carpinteria], where he resides. Franco and a small group of Sandpiper homeowners, including Kathy Mattes, president of the...
Santa Barbara City Council Puts Temporary Stop to Changes at Flamingo Mobile Home Park
[ED. NOTE: Many Flamingo residents are members of GSMOL Chapter 1102. The Flamingo residents have been active in fighting for the rights of vulnerable senior mobilehome owners for many years. GSMOL Corporate Counsel Bruce Stanton and GSMOL Zone Vice President Anne...
Elderly residents face homelessness after eviction from West Sacramento mobile home park
By Alexandra Yoon-Hendricks | Source When she received a 60-day eviction notice, Rhoda Davison (pictured), a 91-year-old resident who’s lived in her West Sacramento mobile home park for over three decades, was sent into a panic. “I was set with all the Christmas...
