Of course mobile homes should be included! The rent committee’s own legal team agrees! The good news is that the landlords will pay for the legal defense and will lose.

Stop gouging your tenants!

Mobile homes should absolutely not be included in Measure V. Mobile homes are completely different than apartments and require a different solution.

The problem is that mobile home owners are committed to a location, as mobile homes are not mobile, but manufactured homes. Once someone purchased, they’re stuck with the landlord until they sell,

It used to be that a double wide mobile home space rent was about half the cost of a one bedroom apartment. Now, the same mobile home spaces go for 1.5 times the price of a one bedroom apartment.

To impose measure V on mobile home park space rent may not help renters there. It’s virtually useless. Mobile home residents need city legislation to protect them.

Yes, we want lawsuits against the city. Everyone is entitled under Measure V to get rental protection.

It was simply money politics controlling the RHC.

THere was an extensive legal report submitted here (Web Link

THe City Attorney and the RHC legal team both concluded that the CSFRA did cover the land rent of a Mobile Home.

Simply put, the RHC decided to reject the legal analysis based on pressure by the Mobile Home Park owners.

Why, because the longer than 1 year refunds that will be required to pay the Mobile Home owners.

That's all.

The City will need to decide whether to defend against the lawsuit. A mobile owner park owner could intervene. Remember that when the CA Apt Association (landlord group) sued challenged the just-enacted initiative (adding to the city charter), the City balked at defending the new law, the City Attorney stipulated to a TRO suspending enforcement, the City later decided to defend the measure but could NOT BE TRUSTED, private persons intervened to defend it, and after learning that the Court had ended the suspension, the landlord group DROPPED THE LAWSUIT. In any event, the key development now is that the landlords have presented to the City a proposed initiative petition to "reform" the rent control law. According to the Voice article, the proposed reform is actually a COMPLETE REPEAL OF RENT CONTROL disguised as reform. But I will be reading it alobg side of the law passed (Measure V) to see just what the proposed initistive would do.

If rent control is allowed to slip into mobile home parks the city will suffer around a billion dollar financial loss. "The catastrophe in Capitola and the great Santa Cruz land swindle" google. It probably will because people want cheap rents rather than worry about "lost economic opportunity". The drama of it all. Show down in Silicon Valley where the majority of the electorate during the general election could be intelligent in terms of economics and hisotry. The age of Trump.
George Drysdale land economist and history teacher

My mom owns a mobile home in a senior, secured park in the Central Valley. Her space rent goes up $10 per month every year. She now pays nearly $500 per month! This space rental only covers the upkeep of the park grounds. Something needs to be done about this problem!

Space rents in MV are now above $2000. Park owners are using these high rent increases to force seniors out of their homes so they can claim the property and then rent the homes out for $4000 a month. It is a tragedy that the City Council knows about this and is letting it happen through their appointments at the RHC. People in our park are now motivated to vote these council members out of office and to make sure they have no future in California politics. They do not care about seniors that need affordable housing. All seniors should work together to protect ourselves from elected officials that do not have or best interests in mind. We will depend on them to protect us when we can't fight for ourselves as easily as in our youth.

I wl could not add my name to this comment because my landlord raises rents even more if people make a fuss. This is why we can't go to the council meetings.