MHRC Mobilehome Affordability Act Wish List

MHRC Mobilehome Affordability Act Wish List
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Include all cities in a statewide Rent Stabilization Ordinance. Don't allow cities not to participate. If this were granted, there is no purpose to a statewide RSO. Cities that want to protect MH owners have already done so.
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Place a reasonable rent increase percentage cap or one based on the Consumer Price alone. We propose 50% of local CPI or 3% – whichever is lower. Also allowing only one increase per twelve months equaling a total of 3% annual increase. This would protect MH renters in rural areas where rent prices are typically not as high as in urban areas. It would allow MH residents to plan their budgets while allowing park owners to make a predictable profit.
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Include a lookback period to prevent park owners from jackknifing rents after the bill is signed but before its implementation date. This prevents park owners from skyrocketing rents before the implementation date, causing the threshold on rents to be significantly higher. This has been common in RSOs in most communities.
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Allow cities with existing but worse RSOs to participate in the more beneficial rent increase percentage. The Western Center on Law & Poverty recommends allowing presumptive language to enable those RSO communities with worse rates to fall under the statewide RSO.
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Implement an annual cap on pass-throughs/capital improvements. When RSOs have been put in place, park owners have tried to maximize their profits by passing through many additional costs to MH residents. Increasingly, park owners are passing along to park residents the Prop 13 amount they lost when purchasing the park. Residents already pay taxes on our homes; we don’t need to pay the park owners’ property taxes which he/she knew would be an increased expense when the park was purchased. Park residents had no interest in the purchase and therefore should not pay the park owners property taxes. etc. We have been advised that this will need to be addressed elsewhere.
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Place a reasonable limit on vacancy control so new buyers pay a defined amount or percentage above the existing residents’ rent increases. Reasonable, known, new buyer rates allow MH owners to sell their homes and not face foreclosure.
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Allow residents who have signed multi-year lease agreements to obtain an RSO. Few legal organizations are willing to review MH leases on a pro-bono basis so residents are forced to either hire an attorney or take their chance that the least will not harm them. We have been advised that this is covered by AB 2782.
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Allow cities to provide a better rent stabilization amount in future years. If a local jurisdiction wants to attract residents to its affordable housing in the future, what better way than to lower its RSO to an even better rate?
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Allow enforcement by the Attorney General as well as the city attorney or county council allowing fair treatment for MH residents should their city not be favorable to RSO relief.
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Allow future MH residents to be included in the RSO caps. This prevents a tiered system of home ownership in each MHP and allows mobile homeowners to attract new buyers to their parks.
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Please include any other issues that you think should be included in a Rent Stabilization Ordinance for Mobile Homeowners.
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MHRC Mobilehome Affordability Act Wish List

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