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Mobile home residents urge county to consider rent-stabilization measures; owners cite pass-through charges
Summary
Residents of Lake Village Estates and Clear Lake Oaks urged supervisors to pursue a county rent-stabilization ordinance for mobile-home parks, saying owners imposed large rent increases and pass-through charges; speakers asked the county to investigate alleged code and license violations by park owners.
Several residents of mobile-home parks told the Board of Supervisors during public input on Feb. 4 that they want county action to limit rent increases in mobile-home parks and curb pass-through charges from park owners.
Gail Delaine, a homeowner at Lake Village Estates, asked supervisors to consider a countywide rent-stabilization ordinance similar to rules adopted in other counties. Delaine said park owners pass through charges for capital improvements as monthly fees and that residents, many of them seniors, carry the fixed costs of homeownership including taxes and utilities while paying space rent.
John Martin, also a mobile-home resident, asked for stricter limits on how often owners can raise rent and said residents are organizing complaints with the state over alleged health-and-safety and Mobile Home Residency Law violations. Several speakers urged the county to investigate licensing and code-compliance issues for operators they named.
Supervisors did not take action at the meeting but said staff would follow up with residents and that some complaints may involve state enforcement and business-license review, which county departments will check.
