Annual Chapter Reporting
It’s that time of the year and our Chapters are gearing up for their annual reporting. Although the forms needed are available in our Members Only section, we understand the need to have these...
View ArticleProp 1 Aims to Assist Affordable Housing Crisis in California
DISCLAIMER: This article is for informational purposes only and does not constitute GSMOL directly or indirectly participating in, or intervening in, any political campaign on behalf of (or in...
View ArticleMobile home park for seniors left high and dry by a water main break.
HAYWARD, Calif. (KTVU) – In Hayward, a mobile home park for seniors has been left high and dry by a water main break. Eden Gardens Estates on Winton Avenue at Hesperian Blvd lost water service Sunday...
View ArticleCounty Supes Approve Plan to Improve North Fair Oaks Mobile Home Park
A San Mateo County plan to improve habitability and safety in a 51-space mobile home park in North Fair Oaks is being billed as a win for affordable housing. An inspection of the Redwood Trailer...
View ArticleMobile Homes, Affordable No More
The once affordable housing option—the mobile home—is slipping away, one by one. For many of us, mobile/manufactured homes have offered an affordable solution to home ownership. This is in part due to...
View ArticleSeminole Springs Mobile Home Park, Next to Iconic Rock Store, Devastated by...
Much of the Seminole Springs mobile home park along scenic Mulholland Highway appears to have burned as the Woolsey Fire left a path of destruction through the Santa Monica Mountains.
View ArticleFEMA promises federal help for Butte County wildfire victims
CHICO, Calif. (KCRA) — For many of the hundreds of Camp Fire evacuees now living in the Walmart parking lot in Chico, the big question is — where’s FEMA? “I have only heard there is one in Oroville;...
View Article‘It was a gem’: idyllic mobile home community scorched by wildfire
Roger Kelly had been up through the night, watching the orange glow emanating from the hillside above his home of 30 years. The Seminole Springs mobile home park, a co-op of 215 small lakeside homes...
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Stone Introduces Bill to Protect Mobilehome Owners
SACRAMENTO— Assemblymember Mark Stone (D-Monterey Bay) has introduced Assembly Bill 705, a measure to increase protections for mobilehome owners facing displacement. AB 705 will ensure that if a...
View ArticleRancho La Paz Mobile Home Park Residents Meet with Park’s Owner
by Jane Rands | Source About 150 Fullerton and Anaheim residents of the Rancho La Paz Mobile Home Park met with the park’s owner, John Saunders, on April 5. Saunders said he made a “mistake” and...
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City of Carpinteria votes to approve new protective regulations for mobile...
By Claire Burke | Source At the May 13 City Council meeting, councilmembers voted 3-0 (Mayor Nomura, Councilman Shaw recused) to approve a set of actions suggested by the Mobile Home Rent Stabilization...
View ArticleResidents See Trailer Parks As Home. Investors See Them As Cash Cows.
(DISCLAIMER – it was the news source that called them “trailer” parks, not GSMOL.) By Josh Wood | Source TAUNTON, Mass. — When Kathy Zorotheos retired in 2014 after working for nearly four decades, she...
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Mobile home groups seek RSO
By Camas Frank | Source (ED. NOTE – Randall Sears, pictured above, is Vice President of GSMOL Chapter 1317 at Rancho del Bordo.) ATASCADERO – About a month after a group of speakers showed up at a...
View ArticleLetter: Mobile home residents need protections from predators
By Buffalo News Staff | Source I read with interest the May 21 editorial: “NYC Rent Laws Unneeded Here.” New Yorkers throughout the state need safe, affordable housing, like elsewhere across the...
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Santa Maria explores potential model lease, rent stabilization for mobile...
Pictured: Ron Faas, Eileen Armijo, Esther Jensen, Jamie Rodriguez, Jackie Narachi, and Gary Hall, members of North Santa Barbara County Manufactured Homeowners Team (NSBMHT), a GSMOL-allied...
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Council Wrestles with How to Protect Mobile Homeowners from Rent Gouging
by Jesse La Tour | Source In an effort to protect 155 residents of Rancho La Paz mobile home park in Fullerton from the extreme rent increases imposed by the park’s new owner, Fullerton city council...
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Senator Connie Leyva’s Mobilehome Town Hall in Pomona is a Success
Story and Photographs by Carol Brinkman, GSMOL State Secretary and Legislative Action Team Committee Chair On Saturday, August 17, 2019, Senator Connie Leyva, Chair of the Senate Committee on...
View ArticleGSMOL Conference in Orange Brings Knowledge to Homeowners
Regional Conference in Orange, September 28, 2019 By Carol Brinkman, GSMOL State Secretary and Chair of LAT Committee. Mary Jo Baretich, Vice President of Zone C, and Bobbie Magnusson, Park Royale...
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