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Corona Council Advances Mobile‑Home Rent Stabilization Ordinance in First Reading After Hours of Testimony
Summary
After hours of testimony from both park owners and long-term residents, the council introduced Ordinance No. 3422 (mobile‑home park rent stabilization) by title only and waived full reading; the first reading passed 4–0–1.
The Corona City Council introduced by title Ordinance No. 3422, a rent‑stabilization measure for mobile‑home parks, after an extended public hearing that drew dozens of homeowners, park residents and owner‑representatives.
Benjamin Kelly, representing the Manufactured Housing Educational Trust, told the council that blanket rent control would impose large costs on mobile‑home parks and said the ordinance’s findings overstated mobile homes as a pool of subsidized low‑income housing. "Mobile home parks make up only 2.2% of the housing stock in the city," he said in opposition, arguing a need‑based approach would be more appropriate.
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