SB 749 (Allen, D-El Segundo) Defeated! – Forced Sale Requirement
The bill dictating who a mobilehome park can be sold to and at what price is dead. After countless discussions, meetings and hearings, CMPA President Jeff Kaplan was able to set up a one-on-one Zoom meeting with the bill’s author, Senator Allen, to explain CMPA’s objections to the bill. It was a good and productive meeting.
This bill was especially harmful and a challenging issue politically, given the devastating fires in Los Angeles and natural sympathy for fire victims. It would have required park owners seeking to sell their property or change its use, to offer to sell it to “qualified entities” designated by the State. CMPA successfully opposed and defeated a right of first refusal in 2024. The defeat of SB 749 – a “forced sell” requirement – is another important victory.

SB 610 (Perez, D-Alhambra) Significantly Amended – Disaster Assistance for Tenants, Mobilehome Parks, and Mortgage included so many problematic and unconstitutional provisions that it is hard to document them all. This included a rent control provision of 3% plus the percentage change in the CPI up to a maximum of 5% any time during a 12-month period after a state, federal, or local state of emergency is declared. In the event that a parkowner chose to rebuild a mobilehome park, the bill further limited increases in rent to 10% more than the previous rental rate charged for the state. It also required parkowners that owned other parks in California to offer vacant spaces to displaced residents on “substantially similar” terms. Finally, the bill discharges a residents obligation to pay rent when a park is evacuated.
CMPA worked with WMA to oppose this bill throughout the year. Senate leadership considered SB 610 part of its wildfire response package. As a consequence, despite our opposition, the bill easily passed out of the state Senate. However, we were able to cause significant problems for the bill in the Assembly Housing Committee where a cadre of moderate Democrats, particularly Assemblymember’s Wilson and Avila-Farias, worked with us to limit the bill’s assault on property rights. With their support the bill was narrowed significantly before it passed out of the Committee. All of the rent control provisions and the requirement to offer spaces in other parks were removed from the bill by the Assembly Housing Committee. As such, the only provisions that remain applicable to mobilehome parks is the requirement for owners to forego rent during an evacuation. With these amendments, WMA removed its opposition to the bill. CMPA remained opposed to the bill, but it was ultimately signed into law by the Governor and will take effect January 1, 2026. 

SB 522 (Wahab, D-Fremont) Defeated! – Housing, Tenant Protections & Rent Control
This bill required residential rent control to apply to a residential real property built to replace a previous residential real property on the same parcel if the previous residential real property was substantially damaged or destroyed by a disaster, as defined, and was subject to residential rent control at the time the residential real property was substantially damaged or destroyed.  This would have impacted the mobilehome parks and other rental property in Los Angeles County that were lost in the fire.  If they rebuild, they would remain under rent control.

SB 525 (Jones, R-Santee) Supported & Signed into law – California FAIR Plan
Defines “basic property insurance” offered through the FAIR Plan to include manufactured homes insurance that is comparable to basic property insurance sold for residential dwellings. Signed into law by the Governor and will take effect January 1, 2026.

SB 436 (Wahab, D-Fremont) Defeated! – Unlawful Detainer Grace Period
Would have provided a tenant with a three-day grace period to pay rent after an UD action. It would also allow a tenant to apply for rental assistance without having to prove financial hardship and delay paying rent until the request for assistance is granted or denied.