Lin Marie deVincent examines the plight of Sonoma's mobile-home park residents, who own their homes but rent the land beneath them and have long relied on the city's Rent Stabilization Ordinance, adopted in 1992 and revised in 2016. Since 2024, park owners elsewhere in the county have threatened closures to extract rent increases beyond legal limits. Fearing similar tactics, homeowners in Sonoma's three parks have asked the City Council to amend its closure ordinance, proposing a Tri-Park measure drafted by an attorney they hired.
Read the full story: A Mobile Home Crisis — Sonoma Valley Sun, Aug 5.
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