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Mobile-home residents urge Santa Maria to revive rent-stabilization talks, block senior-park conversions
Summary
Speakers at a Santa Maria City Council meeting renewed calls for rent-stabilization protections for mobile-home residents, asked the city to act to prevent senior-park conversions, and pressed the council to resume negotiations with firefighters.
Several mobile-home residents told the Santa Maria City Council that the city’s existing model lease program has failed to protect homeowner equity and urged the council to bring rent-stabilization back to the agenda.
Gary Hall, who identified himself as a resident of Rancho Buena Vista Mobile Estates and representing the North Santa Barbara County Manufactured Homeowners Team, said the city has promised changes for years without results. “We’ve been making this case with the city council for rent stabilization for 7 years,” Hall said. He added that a motion two and a half years ago aimed at improving or replacing the 2020 model lease produced an outreach effort “without any evidence of mobile home resident benefit.”
Hall told the…
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