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Santa Paula residents ask council to reclaim final appeal power in mobile‑home rent review
Summary
Residents of the 400 Mobile Home Estates urged the City Council to amend the mobile‑home rent control ordinance so the elected council — not a three‑member rent review commission — is the final appellate body; council agreed to place the matter on a future agenda and asked staff to report on the timeline and prior ordinance changes.
Dozens of residents of the 400 Mobile Home Estates told the Santa Paula City Council on Tuesday that an apparent mismatch between a posted timeline and the city’s ordinance has undermined trust in the rent‑review process and left families facing a proposed 45% rent increase without what they say is the promised appeal to the council.
Maria Cancino, a 26‑year resident of the mobile home park, told council, “The bottom line is that the city gave us a time limit for the rent review process and detailed description of how those…
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