Mobilehome News Around the State
Fresno city to send ‘army of inspectors’ to mobile home park after second destructive fire
By Cassandra Garibay | Source | The city of Fresno is working on a “rapid transition” to take over code enforcement at mobile home parks within the city, following a second destructive fire at the Trails End Mobile Home Park on Wednesday. “We all have a responsibility...
Orangevale mobile home park residents protest rent increases
By Luke Cleary | Source | ORANGEVALE, California — Homeowners at an Orangevale mobile home park on Wednesday protested rising rents and other expenses they say could drive them out of their homes. The Heritage Oak Glen Mobile Home Park Homeowners Association says...
Though ‘saved’ from dismantling, Palo Alto’s last mobile home park still a work in progress
By Aldo Toledo | Source | PALO ALTO — Four years after dozens of Buena Vista Mobile Home Park residents gleefully applauded the news that a deal had been approved to save their haven from being closed and redeveloped, 94-year-old Clara Maupin has long stopped...
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....
