The meeting member Damon Connolly has introduced two bills to strengthen protection for residents of mobile homes.
From 456, Mobile Home Park managers prevent residents from repairing the interiors of their houses before the real estate can be sold. From 806, managers forbid to prevent residents from installing cooling devices, and also require parks to have cooling centers.
“This legislation would help and ensure that the residents in need of protection, including seniors, will help and ensure that the residents of Mobile Home Park can remain healthy and safe at heat events,” said Connolly from 806.
Connolly said he believes that many residents of the mobile home are abused when they try to sell their houses or install air conditioning.
“The view of many who live in these parks who represents Marin and part of the Sonoma County.
Connolly said there were cases in which the residents were sold after the installation of air conditioning facilities due to allegedly against the rental contract conditions.
Park managers who violate from 806 could be taken with a fine of up to 2,000 US dollars.
Legal Aid of Sonoma County, a non -profit organization by Santa Rosa, which offers legal services for mobile home residents, supports Sunny Noh, the managing director, said that their employees supported 35 inhabitants from Mobile Home last year. Most households included seniors.
Noh said that there were leasing regulations in local mobile home parks that banned air conditioning. She added that extreme weather in Sonoma County was common, including a 109-degree day, which was recorded in Cloverdale with five mobile home parks last June.
“Leasing contracts that prohibit cooling systems are not only impractical in view of the climate change, but can also be a death sentence – especially for our aging population,” said Noh.
With regard to the need for from 456, Connolly said that “bad actors” park owners use ambiguous guidelines in order to spend the owners of mobile phone owners time and money for unnecessary work in their houses so that their home sales are approved.
“Imagine your home and you have arbitrary restrictions for you to sell,” he said. “This is unfair.”
From 456, a park manager would also oblige a mobile homeowner to offer a written summary of the repairs or improvements only for the outside area of a mobile home as a sale condition that has a sales condition at the latest 15 days after the owner's request.
“At the moment, the management is slowly agreing,” said Connolly.
The Golden State has the Home Owner's League, which is committed to residents, supports the legislation.
“The interference in the right to sell your house is nowhere legal in California, except in a mobile home park,” said Anne Anderson, the president of the organization. “You can and should give us the same protection according to the law.”
Lucie Hollingsworth, Politic Director for Legal Aid from Marin, said her non -profit organization gives from 456.
“Mobile homes are the last bastion of affordable living space in many parts of California, but even mobile homeowners, especially older adults, feel the pressure through consistent increase in lots, fees and inflation,” she said. “The faster sale of mobile homes benefit from 456 owners who have financial instability and reduces the stress and frustrations of the already stressful process.”
Chris Wysocki, a state lawyer for the Western Manufryed Housing Communities Association, said that the industry group has not yet evaluated the invoices 456 and 806.
Connolly said his invoices for mobile home parks have not yet been assigned to the meeting committees for review.