Holiday Party - December 18, 2022 You're Invited!

 

Mobilehome Residency Law Protection Program - HCD’s Mobilehome Assistance Center is accepting complaints

 

The California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) is pleased to announce the release of the Mobilehome Residency Law Protection Program (MRLPP) frequently asked questions in English and Spanish. HCD encourages interested parties to distribute or post this flyer to increase awareness of the MRLPP.

 

The Mobilehome Residency Law (MRL) is the "landlord-tenant law" for mobilehome parks, which, like landlord-tenant law and other Civil Code provisions, is enforced in a court of law. The 2022 Mobilehome Residency Law Handbook includes MRL Civil Codes, frequently asked questions, and local community resources.

 

Who can submit an MRLPP complaint? Any mobilehome/manufactured homeowner that has tenancy in a mobilehome park.

 

What types of complaints can be submitted for consideration? Complaints for issues within mobilehome parks related to MRL violations (California Civil Code).

Common violations include but are not limited to:

·     illegal grounds for eviction

·     failure to provide proper notice of rent increases

·     no written rental agreement between the park and mobilehome/manufactured homeowner

 

How does a mobilehome/manufactured homeowner submit their complaint? Complaints must be submitted to HCD. HCD provides assistance to help resolve and coordinate resolution of the most severe alleged violations of the MRL. Visit the Submit a Complaint webpage for details on ways to submit your complaint to HCD.

 

Please note: HCD is prohibited from arbitrating, mediating, negotiating, or providing legal advice in connection with mobilehome park rent disputes, lease or rental agreements, or disputes arising from rental or lease agreements. 

 

Questions? Please contact the MRLPP at MRLComplaint@hcd.ca.gov or

(800) 952-8356.

 

 

 

In Spanish:

 

Programa de Protección de la Ley de Residencia en Casas Móviles

 

A/A: propietarios y residentes de parques de casas móviles

 

El Departamento de Vivienda y Desarrollo Comunitario (Housing and Community Development, HCD) de California se complace en anunciar la publicación del material promocional del Programa de Protección de la Ley de Residencia en Casas Móviles (Mobilehome Residency Law Protection Program, MRLPP) disponible en inglés y español. El HCD anima a las partes interesadas a distribuir o publicar este folleto para dar a conocer el MRLPP. La Ley de Residencia en Casas Móviles (Mobilehome Residency Law, MRL) es la "ley de propietarios e inquilinos" para los parques de casas móviles, que, al igual que la ley de propietarios e inquilinos y otras disposiciones del Código Civil, se aplica en un tribunal de justicia. El Manual de la Ley de Residencia en Casas Móviles de 2022 incluye los códigos civiles de la MRL, las preguntas más frecuentes y los recursos de la comunidad local.

 

 

El Centro de Asistencia para Casas Móviles del HCD está aceptando reclamaciones de la MRL.

 

 

¿Quién puede presentar una reclamación al MRLPP? Cualquier propietario de una casa móvil/prefabricada que tenga un contrato de arrendamiento en un parque de casas móviles.

 

¿Qué tipos de reclamaciones pueden presentarse para su consideración? Reclamaciones por problemas dentro de los parques de casas móviles relacionados con infracciones de la MRL (Código Civil de California). Las infracciones más comunes son, entre otras, las siguientes: motivos ilegales de desalojo, no dar el debido aviso de los aumentos de alquiler y no haber firmado un contrato de alquiler por escrito entre el parque y el propietario de la casa móvil/prefabricada.

 

¿Cómo puede presentar su reclamación el propietario de una casa móvil/prefabricada? Las reclamaciones deben presentarse al HCD. Este ofrece asistencia para ayudar a resolver y coordinar la resolución de las presuntas infracciones más graves de la MRL. Visite la página web Submit a Complaint (Presentar una reclamación) para conocer los detalles sobre las formas de presentar su reclamación al HCD.

 

Tenga en cuenta: se prohíbe al HCD arbitrar, mediar, negociar o brindar asesoramiento jurídico en relación con las disputas sobre el alquiler en parques de casas móviles, los contratos de alquiler o de arrendamiento o las disputas derivadas de los contratos de alquiler o arrendamiento. 

 

¿Tiene alguna pregunta? Póngase en contacto con el MRLPP en MRLComplaint@hcd.ca.gov o al (800) 952-8356.

SB 869 - Mobilehome Park Manager Training - Signed Into Law

 

DIGEST: This bill requires managers and assistant managers of Mobilehome and recreational vehicle (RV) parks to complete an online training and renew the training every year.

Assembly Amendments change the hours of training from 16 to six hours with a continuing education requirement of a two-hour training every two years, instead of a six-hour training every year. In addition, a third party can be permitted to offer the training, and two subject areas have been added as relevant material. The amendments also clarify non-compliance with management having 60 days to comply before a civil penalty and then suspension of a park’s permit to operate. Lastly, the date of adoption is now one year later, May 1, 2025.

ANALYSIS:

Existing law:

1) Governs the terms and conditions of mobilehome tenancies, including rental agreements between homeowners and the management of the mobilehome park and park rules and regulations through the Mobilehome Residency Law.

 

2) Establishes requirements for the construction, maintenance, occupancy use, and design of mobilehome parks. It creates the Mobilehome Parks and Special Occupancy Parks Revolving fund in the State Treasury through the Mobilehome Parks Act.

 

3) Governs the terms and conditions of RV park tenancies with the Recreational Vehicle Park Occupancy Law.

 

4) Establishes requirements for the construction, maintenance, occupancy, use, and design of special occupancy parks and creates the Special Occupancy Parks Revolving Fund through the Special Occupancy Parks Act.

 

5) Gives the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) authority over mobilehome, special occupancy, and RV parks established by the aforementioned acts and laws. HCD’s main enforcement is over the Mobilehome Parks Act and not the Mobilehome Residency Law.

This bill:

1) Requires HCD to:

 

a) Adopt regulations to require at least one person employed as or acting in a managerial role on behalf of a mobilehome or a RV park to receive appropriate training.

 

b) Issue a certificate, effective for two years, for people who successfully complete the training or renew their training.

c) Give written notice to certificate holders 90 days prior to the renewal date.

d) Offer the initial training and yearly renewal training.

e) Review complaints it has received since July 1, 2020 to develop the training.

f) Establish a fee-based structure to cover HCD’s costs.

 

2) Requires the training to be six hours, no more than eight, with an annual online examination. Every two years thereafter there will be follow-up training and coursework of at least two hours, no more than four, and an examination. The training shall be offered in an online format and may be offered in other formats.

 

3) Requires the training to include, at minimum:

 

a) Provisions of the Mobilehome Residency Law including the rental agreement, rules and regulations, fees and charges, utilities, homeowner communications and meetings, termination of tenancy, and transfer of mobilehome or mobilehome park.

b) Provisions of the Recreational Vehicle Park Occupancy Law.

c) Rights and responsibilities of homeowners and management.

d) Addressing emergencies and emergency preparedness and procedures.

e) Communication with homeowners.

f) Mobilehome parks and installations regulations.

g) Mobilehome title and registration.

h) Applicable vehicle code provisions.

i) Any changes or updates to the Mobilehome Residency Law and Recreational Vehicle Park Occupancy Law.

j) Provisions of the Mobilehome Parks Act

k) Provisions of the Special Occupancy Parks Act

 

4) Establishes the Mobilehome and Recreational Vehicle Park Training Fund in the State Treasury for HCD to carry out the provisions, upon appropriation by the Legislature.

 

5) Requires management of a mobilehome or RV park to post a copy of the certificate in a conspicuous location onsite.

 

6) Imposes a civil penalty and suspend the management’s permit to operate if deemed out of compliance.

Important Meeting September 18, 2022

Clarifying the law concerning 'companions' in mobile home parks

Informative Meeting on August 21

 

Why are we talking about animal abuse?

Although animal abuse can happen in any community and is certainly not restricted to mobile home parks, that's where our members live and some of you have raised concerns about seeing abuse.    As a service to those concerned, you may click here to read about Penal Code 597 PC – California Animal Abuse & Animal Cruelty Laws.

Or, you can watch this video: 

 

National Night Out, August 2

INFORMATIVE MEETING Sunday July 17, 2022

 

HCD Releases New Racially Concentrated Areas of Affluence Map Layer

 

The California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) is pleased to release a new map layer in the interactive Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) Data Viewer that shows Racially Concentrated Areas of Affluence (RCAAs).

 

The concept of RCAAs was originally developed by scholars at the University of Minnesota to illustrate the flip side of the Racially and Ethnically Concentrated Areas of Poverty metric used by HUD in the 2015 AFFH rule and to tell the story of segregation more fully. HCD is now releasing a version of the RCAA metric that better reflects California’s relative diversity and regional conditions.

 

The Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) Data Viewer, including this latest RCAA metric, will aid local jurisdictions in their analysis of racially concentrated areas of poverty and affluence pursuant to AB 686 and AB 1304 and if utilized, should be supplemented by local data and knowledge and other relevant factors.

HCD may revisit and refine the layer over the coming year. If you identify areas where the RCAA methodology does not reflect local dynamics in your community, please send your feedback to affhguidance@hcd.ca.gov.

VMC Meeting June 26, 2022 - informative guest speakers

 

Huntington Beach senior mobile home residents seek rent relief

 

Photo by Voice of OC

Read the article in the Voice of OC here. 

Longtime Napa Valley resident "Miss Terri" faces rare brain disease

Photo by the Napa Valley Register

 Read the Napa Valley Register article here.  

People losing homes in mobile home parks

Meeting Sunday, 4/24/22 in Vallejo

 

Vallejo Mobilehome Coalition Wishes everybody Happy Saint Patrick’s day!

 

VMC is here to help!

 We are still here to answer and to serve you if you live in a mobilehome !

Vallejo Mobilehome Coalition: 707-648-6155.  Call us if you need something - we’re here to help always!!!

Do Trailer Parks and Mobile Homes Have a Future As Affordable Housing?

Photo courtesy of Arch Daily

 

 

 

 

"The future of manufactured homes may reinvent the form of something that already widely exists- trailer parks. All across the United States, these small homes are being reimagined by architects by utilizing more sustainable materials, inventive construction techniques, and value engineering to create affordable homes and reinvent the once negative connotation that surrounded this housing typology."

 

Read the Arch Daily article here.  
 

SB-869 Housing: mobilehome parks: special occupancy parks: recreational vehicle parks: manager training

 

"This bill would require the Department of Housing and Community Development, by January 1, 2024, to adopt regulations to require each person employed or acting under contract as an onsite manager or assistant manager, or otherwise acting in an onsite or offsite managerial capacity or role, on behalf of a mobilehome park, special occupancy park, or recreational vehicle park to receive appropriate training of at least 18 hours during the initial year and an unspecified number of hours of followup training each year thereafter on rules and regulations for the park, among other matters."

For the full details of this bill, click here.  

2022 California Mobilehome Residency Law - VMC has printed copies

 

They’re here! The 2022 Mobilehome  Residency Law are in hot off the Press ! Only at the Vallejo Mobilehome Coalition.   We are limited on supply so call us now!  707-648-6155

For an electronic copy, click here. 

Happy New Year

 

2022 California Mobilehome Residency Law

For the 2022 edition, there are significant legislation changes that affect the MRL. AB 861 (CIV 798.23) requires mobilehome park management to comply with any park rule or regulation prohibiting mobilehome owners from renting or subleasing unless renting or subleasing to an employee. AB 978 (CIV 798.30.5) set specific restrictions for mobilehome parks located between two incorporated cities. AB 1061 (CIV 798.40) sets specific requirements for mobilehome parks that have individual water submeters to bill for water. AB 1584 (CIV 798.56) clarifies a manufactured home can be considered an ADU if it meets specified requirements.

Click here for additional information.