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Mobile‑home residents urge county to change rent‑control rules, report 4% annual hikes and lease exemptions
Summary
Dozens of mobile‑home park residents addressed the Board during general public comment to request changes to county mobile‑home rent‑control rules and to ask the Board to place the issue on a future agenda; supervisors said staff is investigating and will follow up.
At the April 8 public comment period, eight residents and advocates from multiple mobile‑home parks urged the Board of Supervisors to revise county rent‑control rules, citing steep annual increases, long leases that exempt units from rent control and the financial strain on fixed‑income seniors.
Speakers described similar personal stories: rents that rose from roughly $600 to $800 over a period of years, residents forced to sell cars and forgo heating or air conditioning to pay rent, and examples of long leases (some described as five‑year rollovers or worse) that residents said removed their protections under the local mobile‑home…
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