- Goleta Protects Mobile Home Park’s Senior-Only Status with Urgency Ordinance
- Dollars dispute: Del Cielo Mobile Estates residents fight back against a rent increase tied to lawsuit expenses
- Goleta to Consider Ordinance to Protect Senior Mobile Home Park
- San Rafael Trailer Park Showdown as Tenants Sue to Halt Evictions
- San Pablo mobile home residents urge city to halt rent hikes
- Bell residents protest city’s plan to redevelop mobile home parks
- Corona Council Approves Mobilehome Rent Stabilization After Broad Public Support
- SLO County supervisors reject rent increase for Harmony-managed mobile home parks
- Residents of Bell mobile home parks push back against plan to relocate them, redevelop property
- Sonoma mobile home park residents ask city to update mandated park protections
- Fortuna Mobile Home Rent Moratorium Passes
- Close to Home: Keeping mobile homes affordable
- Residents advocate to keep Ventura County mobile home rents affordable
- As land dispute intensifies, mobile home park residents prepare for standoff against RTC [Regional Transport Commission] next week
- Senior mobile home park debate continues as county ordinance takes effect
- Soquel mobile home park owners seek 100 apartment redevelopment
- Long-troubled Soquel RV [actually mobilehome] park faces uncertain future under controversial new owner
- HCD Registration & Titling Mobile Office Comes to Fresno June 12 and 13
- Santa Barbara County Planning Commission supports new zoning to protect 11 senior mobile home parks
- Protections for Senior Mobile Home Parks Clear [Santa Barbara County] Planning Commission
- AB 806 Passes Assembly Housing Committee – 4/30/25
- [Santa Barbara County] Planning Commission Will Consider Protections for Senior Mobile Home Parks
- Mobile Home Park Residents At Forefront Of Battle Over Affordable Housing
- San Rafael Residents Fear Eviction from Affordable Housing
- Petaluma countersues mobile home park operator, continuing dispute over who can live there
- Dozens of eviction notices go to Yuba mobile home owners
- Colorado mobile home park residents stop corporate purchase, buy their own park
- San Jose says mobile home park owner can’t raise rent
- HCD Park Manager Training Program – Frequently Asked Questions
- [State Assemblymember] Connolly proposes protections for mobile home residents
- Assemblymember Connolly Introduces AB 456 to Strengthen Protections for Mobilehome Residents
- Mobile homes are some of California’s last affordable housing. Can they rebuild after LA fires?
- Mountain View strengthens rent control protections for mobile homes
- A Night of Unity and Strength in Petaluma
- GSMOL MRL Handbook 2025 Now Available On Our Website!
- EXECUTIVE-ORDER-N-9-25 Temp Housing Signed By Governor
- San Jose mobile park residents face sky-high rent hike despite city rule that prohibits it
- AB 2782: Repeal of the Civil Code 798.17 Long-Term Lease Exemption
- Mountain View considers tightening rent control on mobile homes
- ‘Not filed in good faith.’ Controversial Fresno mobile home park owner [Harmony] gets smacked down by judge
- Will the New Long Term Lease Law Take Effect January 1? GSMOL Attorney Bruce Stanton answers this question
- San Luis Obispo County DA settles civil suit with mobile home park operator Harmony Communities, Inc. and a brokerage firm
- HCD’s Registration and Titling Mobile Office will be in Bakersfield on Nov 12 & 13
- County Supervisors Take Steps to Protect Senior Mobile Home Parks
- Santa Barbara County BOS Directs Staff to Draft Moratorium on Senior Park Conversion
- Watsonville Planning Commission to review new regulations for mobile home park closures amid housing crisis
- Park protection – Senior residents advocate for zoning protections after management group plans to convert a Santa Maria mobile home park to all-ages
- San Luis Obispo trailer park management group to pay civil penalties
- Petaluma’s newest city fee aimed squarely at mobile home park owners
- Orcutt mobile home residents concerned about proposed age policy change
- Santa Rosa mobile home park owners seek multi-hundred-dollar rent increase
- Homeowners in Petaluma Continue to Fight Against Unfair Rent Increases
- Not over yet: Mobile home park residents [in Chico] set sights on rent stabilization ballot measure
- Two Inland Empire mobile home parks facing power shutoff after operator allegedly fails to pay electric bills
- Can I Still Get Mobilehome Homeowners Insurance in California?
- To Fight Rising Rents, These Fresno County Residents Bought Their Mobile Home Park
- HCD Focus Group Meeting on Park Manager Training – Feb. 22, 2024
- Owners of Youngstown Mobile Home Park hit Petaluma with 2nd lawsuit
- HCD Bulletin on Updates to the MRLPP – January, 2024
- HCD Mobile Office – Registration & Titling – Santa Clara County Jan. 30
- Mobile home park owner threatens closure after Cotati passes regulation to protect senior residents there
- Fresno will ask a judge to stop a mobile home park from closing
- San Jose mayor looks to protect mobile home park residents from eviction
- Inside the nearly three-year struggle for residents at Fresno’s La Hacienda mobile home park [formerly Trail’s End]
- ‘You’re killing us’: Castro Valley mobile home park residents told rent will double
- GSMOL Regional Educational Conference in Orange, September 30, 2023
- Petaluma mobile home park residents facing 300% rent increase
- [Thousand Oaks] Council OKs ordinance to protect city’s senior-living mobile home parks
- GSMOL Regional Conference in Santa Maria, September 9, 2023
- Sonoma County Board of Supervisors pause rent increases for mobile home park spaces
- Petaluma strengthens rent control for mobile home dwellers
- Capitola leaders approve mobile home rent stabilization ordinance
- Capitola City Council to consider mobile home rent control ordinance
- Rent for a Capitola mobile home park is increasing 56%, city council is stepping in
- Embattled former Trails’ End mobile home park in northeast Fresno set to close, according to owner
- Tornado touchdown confirmed at Carpinteria mobile home park
- South Bay Mobile Home Park Dispute Moves to Sacramento
- The 2023 Mobilehome Residency Law (MRL) is out!
- Plans underway to redevelop Buena Vista Mobile Home Park
- Windsor is next in Sonoma County to limit rent hikes in mobile home parks
- New owners, new name. What life at the former ‘Trails End Mobile Home Park’ is like now
- ‘Our fight is for every resident at every mobile home park.’ National City approves rent control
- Torrance to consider implementing rent stabilization ordinance for mobile home parks
- Windsor considering tighter rent control for mobile home park residents
- ALL THREE GSMOL-SPONSORED BILLS SIGNED BY GOVERNOR!!!
- GSMOL Store! Show your support for GSMOL with T-shirts, mugs and more!
- The MRLPP really works! It galvanized my park owner into action!
- ‘This is too much’: Residents of Newbury Park senior mobile home park stunned at 8.5% rent hike
- The NBA ‘SuperFan’ who got rich fighting rent control
- MRL 101 Townhall with Bruce Stanton
- Santa Barbara’s Green Mobile Home Park Saved from Foreclosure
- April 23 Virtual Townhall video available for watching
- Investors are buying up mobile home parks. These Fresno tenants have a different idea
- Santa Maria mayor, city manager agree to discuss mobile home rent stabilization
- Virtual Mobilehome Townhall with Bruce Stanton – April 23, 2022
- Santa Maria mobile home residents advocate for rent stabilization through challenging city politics
- OC seniors push for protections amid mobile home park rent hikes
- Car Wrecks, Flooding and a Possible Sewage Leak: Life in a Westminster Mobile Home Park
- Youngstown MHP Residents Turn Away Rent Increase
- Rancho Mobile Home Park Sold in Goleta – Controversial Property Faces Potential to Sell Land to Tenants
- ‘‘It’s a conspiracy’: Huntington Beach mobile home residents allege rent gouging
- MRL Handbook 2022 is out!!!
- ‘Trailer trash treatment.’ Homeowners feel ignored by Yosemite after being told to leave
- Pico Rivera gives final approval to mobile home park rent control law
- GSMOL Regional Conference in Sanger – Saturday, January 15, 2022, 10 AM to 4 PM
- Ed Fund Virtual Townhall January 22, 2022 with Bruce Stanton
- A Promising Court Victory for Mobile-Home Residents
- Plan launched to save [Santa Barbara] Green Mobile Home Park affordability
- Petition signed by 450 Santa Marians demands new mobile home rent control discussion
- Residents at Petaluma senior mobile home park face major rent increase
- Ed Fund Townhall Video and Summary from October 23, featuring Bruce Stanton, Now Available
- Santa Maria mobile home residents resume push for rent control as rates rise
- Mobile home park prevails: Residents won’t see rent increase, for now
- Governor Newsom Signs AB 861, the bill concerning rental of homes
- Governor Newsom Signs AB 1061, the Water Charges bill
- CPUC Decision Protects Homeowners in Parks Undergoing Utility Conversions
- Carson mobile home park closures put owners, residents at odds, with city in the middle
- Newsom OKs $30 million for Oasis Mobile Home Park resident relocation in state budget
- Sale Of Mobile Home Parks In Carson Displaces Hundreds Of Elderly Residents
- HCD – Help With Your Mobilehome Park Maintenance Inspection
- Availability of Park Facilities – JULY UPDATE – Bruce Stanton
- Video of Virtual Townhall with Bruce Stanton – April 10, 2021
- ‘Absolute disgrace.’ Fresno begins inspection at Trails End Mobile Home Park
- Santa Barbara City Council Puts Temporary Stop to Changes at Flamingo Mobile Home Park
- Fresno city to send ‘army of inspectors’ to mobile home park after second destructive fire
- Orangevale mobile home park residents protest rent increases
- Though ‘saved’ from dismantling, Palo Alto’s last mobile home park still a work in progress
- State knew this Fresno mobile home park was unsafe – but didn’t tell city. Now one is dead
- Update on Availability of Common Area Facilities by GSMOL Counsel Bruce Stanton
- Mountain View poised to pass mobile home rent control by September
- Fresno County will consider rent control for mobile home parks
- Former Journey’s End residents win settlement from insurance company
- Sandpiper Mobile Home Village land ownership changes hands in $20 million sale
- GSMOL Membership Discounts to be Continued In 2021!
- Santa Barbara City Council Puts Temporary Stop to Changes at Flamingo Mobile Home Park
- Follow Us On Facebook! Celebrate, Support and Build GSMOL in Real Time
- Elderly residents face homelessness after eviction from West Sacramento mobile home park
- “Your Rights Bytes” #17 by Bruce Stanton Posted at Ed Fund Academy
- Mobilehome Town Hall with Senator Tom Umberg
- Q & A With GSMOL Attorney Bruce Stanton About AB 2782
- Protections for Owners of Manufactured Homes Are Uncertain, Especially During Pandemic
- Governor Newsom Signs GSMOL-sponsored AB 2782 as well as COVID-19 Landlord and Tenant Protection Legislation
- Website Update – Membership System Up and Running!
- From Our Homes to Yours
- In a California manufactured home park, seniors asked to sign leases that may outlive them
- “Shared” Membership Opportunity to Convert to “Two-Fer” Deal
- GSMOL Membership Discount Prices During COVID-19 Crisis
- Buddy Rabaya, 58, Santee mobilehome owner activist and community icon, passes away
- San Jose adds protections for mobile home residents
- GSMOL Regional Conference in Sonoma – March 7, 2020
- GSMOL Regional Conference in Ventura, October 12, 2019
- Mobile home zoning OK’d to save affordable housing, head off conversions
- Santa Maria moves forward with model lease agreement despite residents’ concerns
- Mobile home zones in unincorporated Ventura County proposed to lock in affordable housing
- Cave fire swells to 4,100 acres overnight, threatening homes [and mobilehomes] in Santa Barbara County
- Opinion: Space rent stabilization is needed to protect vulnerable residents in Belmont Shores Mobile Estates
- Half their community burned in the Woolsey fire. Recovery is wreaking its own misery.
- Experts Say Prevention Is Key To Combat Rising Senior Homelessness In Long Beach
- Anaheim City Council Shelves Mobile Home Rent Control Ordinance, Rent Increases for Seniors Start Today
- Press Conference with Assemblymember Ed Chau
- City Council Forms Ad Hoc Committee on Mobile Home Issue
- Spoiled food and missing medicine: How PG&E shutoffs hit a California mobile home park
- Following a 35% rent hike in seniors-only mobile home park, Long Beach officials commit to closing legal loophole
- Residents, park owners split on key terms in city’s mobile home model lease
- The elderly, poor hit hard by power loss
- Residents of Belmont Shores Mobile Estates seeing rent hikes as high as 35%
- Governor Signs AB 173 and SB 274!
- Meet GSMOL’s New Office Volunteer, Scott Zettlemoyer
- GSMOL Conference in Orange Brings Knowledge to Homeowners
- Senator Connie Leyva’s Mobilehome Town Hall in Pomona is a Success
- Council Wrestles with How to Protect Mobile Homeowners from Rent Gouging
- Santa Maria explores potential model lease, rent stabilization for mobile home parks
- Letter: Mobile home residents need protections from predators
- Mobile home groups seek RSO
- Residents See Trailer Parks As Home. Investors See Them As Cash Cows.
- City of Carpinteria votes to approve new protective regulations for mobile home owners
- Rancho La Paz Mobile Home Park Residents Meet with Park’s Owner
- Stone Introduces Bill to Protect Mobilehome Owners
- Annual Chapter Reporting
- ‘It was a gem’: idyllic mobile home community scorched by wildfire
- FEMA promises federal help for Butte County wildfire victims
- Seminole Springs Mobile Home Park, Next to Iconic Rock Store, Devastated by Woolsey Fire
- Mobile Homes, Affordable No More
- County Supes Approve Plan to Improve North Fair Oaks Mobile Home Park
- Mobile home park for seniors left high and dry by a water main break.
- Prop 1 Aims to Assist Affordable Housing Crisis in California
- MH Resident Rent Increase Success – Royal Palm MHP, Woodland, CA
- Davis Working To Protect Mobile Homes From Bay Area Price Creep
- St. Helena Council Moves Ahead with Mobile Home Rent Stabilization
- Sunnyvale Council Candidates Tackle Rent Control and Housing at Forum Hosted by Mobile Home Park Group
- Vacancy Control is Critical in the Rent Stabilization Ordinance
- Mobile-Home Values Might Rise as Fast as Regular Homes – Here’s Why that Matters
- Public Disaster Recovery Meeting for Residents Impacted by 2017 Wildfires
- Audit: California Agency Failing to Oversee Housing Funds
- Evictions in Mobile Home Parks: Insights from Texas and Florida
- More Than 200 Long Beach Mobile Home Park Residents Take Owners to Court
- Mobile-Home Owner Protection Bill Clears Legislature
- L.A. County Adopts Temporary 3 Percent Rent Cap on Mobile Homes
- Are “vulture capitalists” preying on mobile home owners?
- Judge to Decide on Rent Control for Mobile Homes
- Rent Burden Strains More Than Three-Quarters of Low-Income Seniors in California, Study Finds
- LA County Is Considering Rent Control For Mobile Homes
- Court Sides with Park Owner and City in Ruling of Sunnyvale’s Mobile Home Park Lawsuit
- July 29 2018 Meeting of Park West Residents
- Three Grovetown Mobile Homes Destroyed by Fire Ruled Arson
- From Community to Ghost Town: Another Arizona Mobile-Home Park Vanishes
- City’s Plan to Remove 5 Vacant Mobile Homes Creates Concern it Could Mean Park’s Closure
- Mobile Home Taxes Trashed as ‘Unfair’ by Property Owners Who Cry Foul Over Assessment
- Mobile Home Owners Find a Lifeline Against Displacement
- Mobile Home Park Residents Ask Council to Reject Townhouse Proposal
- Video to Help Mobilehome Owners Waive Back Registration Fees and Taxes
- Council Considers Repeal of Mobile Home Site Rental Tax
- Assembly Bill Promises Additional Protection for Mobile Home Owners
- Manufactured Homes Touted as Affordable Housing Options
- Fire Damages Two Units in Mobile Home Park Just East of Modesto
- Sonoma Mobile Homes Knocked Askew by Pickup Truck Accident
- Fire Crews Battle 2 Mobile Home Fires in Visalia
- Regional Mobilehome Owners Conference – San Jose
- Santa Rosa Mobile Home Park Residents Frustrated by Fire Rebuild
- California 2018 Primary Election Results
- Guild Mortgage Announces New Program for Manufactured Homes
- Does California have a mobile home shortage?
- Residents Sue Owner Of Fire-Destroyed Santa Rosa Mobile Home Park
- Zone B Update
- Op-Ed: A David and Goliath Battle is Shaping Up in Sunnyvale Over Mobile Home Rent Stabilization
- Plan to Replace Mobile Home Park with Townhouses Advances
- Elections 2018
- Vallejo City Council to review amendments to mobile home ordinance
- Mobile home residents ready to sue city over rent control [Mountain View]
- Mobile home park residents in Willits to organize protests
- LA County drafting rent control for mobile home parks
- Tax and fee amnesty available for California mobile home owners
- Petaluma mobile home park under scrutiny
- Mobile-home owner sees water bill jump
- Santee Mobilehome Owners Adopt-A-Senior program
- Mobile home residents seek rent control
- FEMA bringing trailers, mobile homes to Sonoma County to house fire victims
- Yucaipa City Council accepts biennial review recommendations provided by mobile home rent review commission
- Park about to reopen
- As a Seaside resident faces eviction from her mobile home, a community rises up to protect her.
- Journey’s End remains closed as asbestos testing continues
- For Northern California fire victims, FEMA extends housing assistance
- Asbestos keeps some Santa Rosa fire victims away from belongings
- Yucaipa’s Mobilehome Rent Review meeting gets heated
- Council approves rent control for Vallejo’s mobile homes
- Sonoma County, Santa Rosa consider new housing policies to help fire recovery
- Arcata City Council introduces redrafted mobile home rent stabilization
- Affordability crisis hits LA’s trailer parks
- Council takes first vote on Vallejo mobile home rent control
- Hotel, Mobile Homes Destroyed by California Wildfires
- Mobile home park residents continue to fight for their rights
- Mobile homes often trade in a ‘gray market.’ Owners now have a chance to avoid back taxes.
- Senate Select Committee on Manufactured Home Communities, Monday, October 2nd, 2017
- In Memorium – Katie Coleman
- YES on AB 1269!
- Westwind Estates Won’t Implement Emergency Recommendations from County or City
- Chapter News – February 2017
- Humboldt County’s Rent Control Debate
- Senate Select Committee on Manufactured Home Communities, Friday, September 16th, 2016
- Communication with members is a major goal
- “Ed Fund Academy” features articles on a variety of MH topics
- Convention Wrap-up
- Chapter News – March 2016
- Chapter News – January 2016
- Chapter News – December 2015
- ‘Tis The Season for Giving!
- First Sub-Meter Conversion Completed
- Chapter News – November 2015
- Welcome to GSMOL News!
- Marin rent control could help preserve affordable housing, proponents say
- Chapter News – September 2015
- Chapter News – August 2015
- Chapter News – June 2015
- Chapter News – May 2015
- Chapter News – April 2015
- Chapter News – February 2015
- Chapter News – January 2015
- Chapter News – 2014
- Mobile Homes: More than Just a Box on Wheels
- Vacancy Decontrol for Oceanside Mobile Home Parks
- Manufactured Housing in the News – Part 4
- Manufactured Housing in the News – Part 3
- Manufactured Housing in the News – Part 2
- Manufactured Housing in the News – Part 1
GSMOL’s Mobilehome Residency Law (MRL) HANDBOOK for 2026 is available HERE!
Read about forming a Disaster Preparedness Team in your park HERE!
What do we do?
We support manufactured-home owners…
GSMOL enhances the quality of life for all manufactured-home owners and for residents of manufactured-home communities throughout California. We champion the property rights of homeowners, and deliver value through advocacy, information and service. GSMOL lobbies for just and fair protection under the law for manufactured-home owners so they may experience the quiet, peaceful enjoyment of their community.
How do we do it?
- LEGISLATION – We work with the state legislature to pass bills that protect manufactured-home owners and to defeat harmful legislation; and we help homeowners work with their local governments to create and defend ordinances relating to manufactured homes.
- EDUCATION – Through our magazine The Californian, our Chapters in parks, our email list bulletins, social media, this website, local events such as Regional Conferences, and the work of our volunteer leaders, we help homeowners understand the laws that govern manufactured-home living, so that they will be less likely to be taken advantage of.
- ORGANIZATION – We coordinate our members to form GSMOL Chapters in their parks, to work together with neighbor parks and local coalitions to benefit their communities, and to support the state bills that we sponsor.
- LITIGATION – We have a long history of supporting homeowners in important legal cases and assisting local jurisdictions faced with Court challenges to their Zoning and Rent Stabilization Ordinances. The landmark case Yee v. City of Escondido, decided by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1992, is just one example of many successful joint efforts.
Why do we need you?
We could not have accomplished all we have without the help of our members. The MRL (Mobilehome Residency Law) would not exist, some city and county ordinances protecting manufactured-home owners would not have been adopted, and some manufactured-home- friendly state and local legislators and public officials might not have been elected.
Your membership gives us strength in numbers, and supports most of the work that is outlined above. Your connection to other members in your park and community will help to accomplish both our goals and yours! JOIN US!!
