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San Leandro residents press council for stronger rent-stabilization and mobile-home protections
Summary
Dozens of residents and tenant advocates used the City Council's public-comment period on Sept. 2 to urge immediate action on a rent-stabilization ordinance and amendments to the mobile-home park ordinance, while members of the League of San Leandro Voters publicly accused three council members of misconduct.
SAN LEANDRO, Calif. ' At the San Leandro City Council meeting on Sept. 2, dozens of residents urged the council to adopt stronger rent-stabilization rules and to amend the city's mobile-home park ordinance to protect seniors and long-term homeowners from steep space-rent increases.
Speakers at the meeting described growing displacement pressure in mobile-home communities and asked the council to act sooner rather than later. "I own my mobile home; at the end of this year I'm going to be homeless," said Chris Beebe, a senior and disabled resident who said she has owned her mobile home for 25 years. "I don't have the money to pay the space rent. Please do something."
The requests ranged from a firm cap on annual rent increases (several speakers asked that increases be capped at 3 percent) to limits on owners passing capital-repair costs onto…
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