Mobilehome News Around the State
Santa Maria explores potential model lease, rent stabilization for mobile home parks
Pictured: Ron Faas, Eileen Armijo, Esther Jensen, Jamie Rodriguez, Jackie Narachi, and Gary Hall, members of North Santa Barbara County Manufactured Homeowners Team (NSBMHT), a GSMOL-allied organization in North Santa Barbara County. Since last fall, the city of Santa...
Letter: Mobile home residents need protections from predators
By Buffalo News Staff | Source I read with interest the May 21 editorial: “NYC Rent Laws Unneeded Here.” New Yorkers throughout the state need safe, affordable housing, like elsewhere across the country. The people of New York State fear monied investors are stealing...
Mobile home groups seek RSO
By Camas Frank | Source (ED. NOTE - Randall Sears, pictured above, is Vice President of GSMOL Chapter 1317 at Rancho del Bordo.) ATASCADERO - About a month after a group of speakers showed up at a regular meeting of the Atascadero City Council seeking relief from...
Residents See Trailer Parks As Home. Investors See Them As Cash Cows.
(DISCLAIMER - it was the news source that called them "trailer" parks, not GSMOL.) By Josh Wood | Source TAUNTON, Mass. — When Kathy Zorotheos retired in 2014 after working for nearly four decades, she spent her days walking around the Oak Hill Mobile Home Park where...
City of Carpinteria votes to approve new protective regulations for mobile home owners
By Claire Burke | Source At the May 13 City Council meeting, councilmembers voted 3-0 (Mayor Nomura, Councilman Shaw recused) to approve a set of actions suggested by the Mobile Home Rent Stabilization Board. These recommendations stem from the surge in mobile home...
Rancho La Paz Mobile Home Park Residents Meet with Park’s Owner
by Jane Rands | Source About 150 Fullerton and Anaheim residents of the Rancho La Paz Mobile Home Park met with the park’s owner, John Saunders, on April 5. Saunders said he made a “mistake” and apologized for not meeting with residents prior to imposing 45% to 55%...
Stone Introduces Bill to Protect Mobilehome Owners
SACRAMENTO— Assemblymember Mark Stone (D-Monterey Bay) has introduced Assembly Bill 705, a measure to increase protections for mobilehome owners facing displacement. AB 705 will ensure that if a mobilehome park is approved to be converted or closed, the...
‘It was a gem’: idyllic mobile home community scorched by wildfire
Roger Kelly had been up through the night, watching the orange glow emanating from the hillside above his home of 30 years. The Seminole Springs mobile home park, a co-op of 215 small lakeside homes tucked into the canyon between Malibu and Agoura Hills, was on the...

