Mobile home residents don't know when or if they will be able to rebuild their homes as questions swirl about insurance, funding and ownership.
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For one, they’re more likely to be uninsured or underinsured, due in part to insurers’ reluctance to cover manufactured homes, said Ryan Sears, a policy advocate for Neighborhood Partnership Housing Services, a nonprofit affordable housing developer that builds fire-resistant mobile homes. On top of that, the parks were located in a state-designated high-risk fire zone.
While home values in the parks ballooned in recent decades, surpassing $1 million in some cases, residents who bought in years ago were paying as little as $600 per month for rent-controlled lots, not including the cost of their home. That made the area a haven for everyone from retired couples to supermarket employees, Sears said.
Miller had paid off her home and owed $980 per month in rent for her space, affordable on her fixed income. Palisades Bowl management has paused collecting rent since the fire, but Miller and other residents worry that this could provide a pretext for evicting them in the future, since their leases say that a catastrophe does not provide an excuse for non-payment, Miller said.
A coalition of housing nonprofits and community land trusts sent a letter to state lawmakers last month urging them to prioritize affordable housing as Los Angeles rebuilds. Some Los Angeles-area mobile home parks have converted to condominiums, said Sears, selling lots individually along with the homes atop them. It priced out those who couldn’t afford the increased cost to buy in, he said.
The state’s decision not to allow mobile home parks to qualify for disaster relief grants aimed at multifamily housing made it harder for park owners, she said. Many former mobile home residents left the state, she said, and some are still searching for permanent housing years later.In Santa Rosa, the non-profit developer Burbank Housing replaced a 162-unit mobile home park with affordable apartments after the Tubbs Fire incinerated it, displacing the mostly elderly residents.
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