Mobilehome News Around the State
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...
Mobilehome Town Hall with Senator Tom Umberg
Senator Umberg's Town Hall, which also featured GSMOL attorney Bruce Stanton and housing advocate Brian Augusta, was very informative! The video is being archived and a link will be posted here when we have it. [pdf-embedder...
Protections for Owners of Manufactured Homes Are Uncertain, Especially During Pandemic
By Nick Bourke and Rachel Siegel | Source Manufactured homes, commonly known as mobile homes, are the largest source of unsubsidized affordable housing in the United States. Twenty-two million people live in these units, and in some counties, largely in the South and...
In a California manufactured home park, seniors asked to sign leases that may outlive them
By Mara Hoplamazian | Source | On a hot evening in June, residents of the Glenbrook Trails manufactured home park for seniors in Loomis gathered outside in an empty site. Through their face masks, they discussed their fears about the new leases they’ve been offered....
Buddy Rabaya, 58, Santee mobilehome owner activist and community icon, passes away
By Karen Pearlman | Source | SANTEE — Senior citizens living in mobile home parks in Santee have lost their most passionate supporter, and the city of Santee is going through a collective mourning with the passing of one of its most involved citizens, Buddy Rabaya....
San Jose adds protections for mobile home residents
Nearly 60 parks to be re-designated to slow redevelopment | By Louis Hansen | Source | The San Jose City Council has endorsed further protections for all mobile home park residents, as eventual redevelopment has ignited fears of evictions for scores of communities....
