Mobilehome Parks

Assemblymember Waldron introduced California AB 1943 to assist mobile and manufactured home owners located in subdivided mobilehome parks. This bill clarifies Health and Safety Code section 18551 to include all subdivided mobilehome parks, including condominium type...

Mobilehome Parks are governed by "Title 25" of the California Code of Regulations which implements the Mobilehome Park Act, California Health and Safety Code sections 18200 et seq.  Generally, the statute, and implementing reguations are the building codes for...

Mobilehome Parks offer a full range of alternative living lifestyles - from very low income housing to upper end housing such as in Malibu; from 1950s RVs to modern homes with all the amenities; from age restricted to family occupancy.  One of the ongoing issues...

The California Department of Housing and Community Development ("HCD") through the Office of the  Mobilehome Ombudsman announced the establishment of the Mobilehome Assistance Center.  To contact the Mobilehome Assistance Center, the email address is...

A federal jury found that the City of Carson, through its Mobilehome Park Rent Control Ordinance, violated the Park Owner's (Jim Goldstein) Fifth Amendment rights by denying a fair return on his property, Colony Cove Mobilehome Park.  According to the Los Angeles...

Unlike typical eviction actions for tenants renting a home or apartment, evictions in mobilehome parks are complex and have a variety of pitfalls to watch out for. In addition, evictions of tenants in mobilehome parks are governed by the Mobilehome Residency...

Quiet enjoyment for mobilehome park residents is often challenging for the park owners to provide. Quiet enjoyment means providing an environment which is peaceful and quiet. In other words, one household does not have to endure certain types of behavior from...

The California Department of Housing and Community Development, Mobilehome Park Rehabilitation and Resident Ownership Program (formerly known as the Mobilehome Park Resident Ownership Program or MPROP) issued a Notice of Funding availability (see MPRROP 2016...

A recent decision by the California Court of Appeal upheld the City of Carson's denial of the proposed subdivision of a mobilehome park on multiple bases, including that it was inconsistent with the open space element of the City's general plan. Carson Harbor Village,...

Renting a park- or resident-owned mobilehome in a mobilehome park now comes with a "new" defense. In two recent San Diego eviction cases, one case for a park owner and one case for a mobilehome owner, the tenant who was renting the mobilehome asserted a "new"...