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Mobile-home residents urge Santa Maria council to revive rent-stabilization, seek protections for senior parks
Summary
A representative of the North Santa Barbara County Manufactured Homeowners Team renewed calls for the city to pursue rent-stabilization measures, to prevent conversions of senior parks to all-age parks and to resume negotiations with the firefighters’ union.
Gary Hall, a resident of Rancho Buena Vista Mobile Estates and representative of the North Santa Barbara County Manufactured Homeowners Team (Nesbitt), urged the Santa Maria City Council to reopen consideration of rent-stabilization and to act to prevent conversions of senior mobile-home parks.
Hall told the council that residents have pressed the issue for seven years and that a 2020 “model lease” and a subsequent enforcement agreement have failed to protect homeowner equity. “The mobile home residents of Santa Maria continue to struggle,” Hall said. He said improvements requested by residents were ignored when…
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