Mobilehome News Around the State

By John Glidden | Source | The Vallejo City Council will try again to review several changes to the city’s newly created Mobile Home Parks Rent Control Ordinance. Due to the absence of two council members during the council meeting earlier this month, city staff...

By Ariel Carmona, Jr. Representatives from Wagon Wheel and Valley Oaks mobile parks traveled approximately 200 miles round-trip to Petaluma on Saturday where they met with residents of other mobile parks facing rent control issues throughout Mendocino County in an...

By Rina Palta | Source |Citing a shortage of affordable housing and growing homeless population, the L.A. County Board of Supervisors has moved ahead with plans to regulate rent in mobile home parks in the county.The board voted four to one Tuesday to draft a rent...

By Louis Hansen | Source | In the often paycheck to paycheck world of mobile home living, many homeowners lack proper title and registrations for their dwellings. Some may owe thousands of dollars in fines and fees. But the state has opened up an amnesty program...

By Hannah Beausang | Source | After a swift public outcry, the operators of an east Petaluma mobile home park have backed off of a proposal to raise rents by an average of 44.4 percent. A letter outlining the increases was sent to Little Woods Mobile Villa residents...

Carefree Rancher's quixotic quest to find out what's with the doubled cost By Sheila Pell | Source | It's one of those fuzzy numbers on a utility bill; in this case, a water-sevice fee charged by Carefree Ranch Mobile Home Park in Escondido, where 77 of its 185 spaces...

By Rebecca Jeffris Williamson | Source | [ED. NOTE: Buddy Rabaya is GSMOL Region 7 Manager.] “It’s about bringing a smile to their face,” said Buddy Rabaya, president of the Santee Mobilehome Owners Action Committee, Inc. Those faces are the faces of seniors that...