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Residents press council for rent limits at mobile home parks; city schedules MOU negotiation meeting Thursday
Summary
Multiple residents from Paramount mobile home parks urged the council for rent stabilization and lower trash fees; city staff said a resident-owner negotiation meeting to pursue an MOU is scheduled for Jan. 30 at Progress Park Plaza.
Several residents from Paramount mobile home parks told the City Council they are facing steep, repeated rent increases and asked the city for help, including support for rent stabilization terms.
Carolina Rios, a longtime resident of Rio Puente Mobile Home Park, said she has lived in Paramount 22 years and described annual rent increases she called unaffordable. “We’re low income families,” Rios said during public comment, adding residents requested a cap of 3% annual rent increases “instead of 8 to 10%.” Other residents described similar increases, rising trash fees and taxes that they said make basic costs unsustainable for seniors and fixed‑income households.
City staff responded with process information and near-term next steps. City Manager John Moreno said the City Council subcommittee on homelessness (Vice Mayor Lemons and Council Member Olmos) will meet with mobile home park owners and resident representatives on Thursday, Jan. 30 at 4:15 p.m. at Progress Park Plaza, 15500 Downey Avenue. Moreno said the meeting is intended to start negotiations on a memorandum of understanding (MOU) that would include terms for rent increases and other responsibilities; he said three resident representatives and three owner representatives were selected to participate. Jose Angel Garcia and Carolina Rios were named in the meeting as resident representatives present or available to meet.
Residents from several parks — Rio Puente, Mobile Home Estates, Golden State Park, Cherry Village and others — described increases in rent and service fees, and one resident asked the council to consider measures to provide more equitable trash service (residents said receptacles had been reduced and pickups were less frequent). Several speakers said many neighbors are elderly and on limited incomes and that repeated 8–10% annual increases are forcing untenable choices between food and housing.
Moreno and staff said the owner‑resident negotiation meeting is a facilitated start to the process; he encouraged residents to attend the Jan. 30 session to learn more about the MOU process. The meeting is scheduled as an informational and negotiation step; no ordinance or council vote on rent control was adopted at this meeting.
