Mobilehome News Around the State
City Council Forms Ad Hoc Committee on Mobile Home Issue
By Mark Diaz | Source | Rancho del Bordo residents ask for action [ED. NOTE: Rancho del Bordo and Villa Margarita, mentioned in this article, both have GSMOL Chapters, as does another Atascadero MHP. The effort to get a Space Rent Stabilization Ordinance (or at least...
Spoiled food and missing medicine: How PG&E shutoffs hit a California mobile home park
By Sophia Bollag | Source | When Lucille Constantine tried to pick up her prescription medication ahead of a planned blackout in Napa County, she arrived to find her pharmacy closed. That was a big problem for the 69-year-old, who has chronic obstructive pulmonary...
Following a 35% rent hike in seniors-only mobile home park, Long Beach officials commit to closing legal loophole
“No one should have an unexpected 35% increase,” Mayor Robert Garcia said. By Hayley Munguia | Source | Less than a month after hundreds of folks in a seniors-only mobile home park in Long Beach received notice of a 35% rent hike, city officials have committed to...
Residents, park owners split on key terms in city’s mobile home model lease
by Zac Ezzone | Source | There are 14 mobile home parks within the city of Santa Maria with more than 1,500 housing units. Each park differs in how it’s run and what amenities are included. Some of the newer parks in the city have nine-hole pitch-and-putt golf courses...
The elderly, poor hit hard by power loss
[ED. NOTE: Although this article is not about people who live in mobilehome parks, it may as well be, because it points out the issues that are affecting seniors, the disabled, and people on low incomes. Also, it is important for us to be aware that in mobilehome...
Residents of Belmont Shores Mobile Estates seeing rent hikes as high as 35%
By Jason Ruiz | Residents of an East Long Beach mobile home park received notices late last month that the rental price for their land would be going up after a nearly $30 million improvement project was completed by the property management company, leaving some...
Senator Connie Leyva’s Mobilehome Town Hall in Pomona is a Success
Story and Photographs by Carol Brinkman, GSMOL State Secretary and Legislative Action Team Committee Chair On Saturday, August 17, 2019, Senator Connie Leyva, Chair of the Senate Committee on Manufactured Home Communities held a Town Hall Meeting in Pomona, San...
Council Wrestles with How to Protect Mobile Homeowners from Rent Gouging
by Jesse La Tour | Source In an effort to protect 155 residents of Rancho La Paz mobile home park in Fullerton from the extreme rent increases imposed by the park’s new owner, Fullerton city council voted at their July 16 meeting to agendize a temporary rent hike...

