CPR: Los Angeles County Supervisors approved a mobile home park rent-control ordinance on Tuesday for unincorporated areas that will limit rental pad inflation to 3 percent a year — the latest sign of high housing costs in L.A.
The Los Angeles Times reported the supervisors approved the Mobilehome Rent Regulation Ordinance by a 3-to-1 vote. It initially provides a 180-day temporary limit on rent increases to maximum of 3 percent a year for annual or short term leases. The ordinance is scheduled to come back before the supervisors next month for another vote to make it permanent.
Supervisor Janice Hahn, who sponsored the rent control measure that will impact about 8,500 mobile home tenants, told Southern California Public Radio that she proposed the ordinance because skyrocketing apartment rents are spilling over to mobile home pad rentals.
Hahn argued that with 100 California communities already having passed rent control laws to protect mobile home tenants, “If we believe in affordable housing, and we believe in keeping these people from being homeless, we should really protect people who are in our mobile home parks in L.A. County.”
Hahn claimed that LA County needs an immediate temporary ordinance to stop mobile home operators from raising rents before a study is conducted to measure if tenants are rent-burdened. But the language of her ordinance states that it can be “extended or replaced by the Board of Supervisors.”
According to a June report from Apartment List, the median rental price for a two-bedroom apartment in Los Angeles was $1,750, and $1,360 for a one-bedroom unit. That was up 3.2 percent, about the same as inflation in the last 12 months, but down from the 6 percent average annual rate since 2015 that had been more than triple the rate of inflation. read more
Now if government could just hold down tax increases to that level.
So the county dictates a business to hold rents under inflation talk about a losing proposition I bet storage units pay better than that.
Our place in norcal has gone from $400 mo to $600 a month in 10 years with no utilities paid. Everytime Soc Sec goes up the rent wipes it out.
3% just became the standard annual pad rental increase.
Now the county needs a law banning unintended consequences.
Maybe they will tax evictions, park closures, and sale of the property for other uses.
Don’t let the greedy bastid landlords make a dime.
Government solution to a problem the government created. What could possibly go wrong?
@RadioMatt: exactly. Rent control should be tied to property tax control and utility rate control. As long as those increase, rents will increase.
Gotta love California….
Dave, you are an arrogant wanker!