Mobile Home Owner News – September 2025
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RE: Palo Alto, California / Buena Vista Mobile Home Park
Tue, Sep 2, 2025 – The Santa Clara County Housing Authority is abandoning its plans to redevelop Palo Alto’s Buena Vista Mobile Home Park with new mobile homes and an apartment building. Instead, the Housing Authority will replace the utilities and develop a voluntary mobile home replacement program for the 4.5-acre park at 3980 El Camino Real, spokeswoman Brandi Johnson said today (Tue, Sep 2, 2025).
The announcement comes after the Housing Authority put the $57 million redevelopment plans on pause in October 2024. Those plans are ‘unfortunately no longer viable,’ Executive Director Preston Prince said in a letter to residents, dated Aug 28, 2025.
‘We understand that this has been a long journey for the community, and we are excited about the prospect of upgrading Buena Vista’s utility infrastructure and continuing the preservation of the park by providing affordable housing opportunities for the Palo Alto community,’ Prince said in the letter.
Prince and his team declined an interview yesterday. Johnson said they’ll have meetings with residents in the coming weeks to discuss replacing the park’s water, gas, sewer and electricity utilities, and residents will get details about the replacement program late next year.
Thu, Feb 9, 2023 – When the Buena Vista Mobile Home Park was on the verge of being razed and replaced with a luxury-housing development six years ago, the Santa Clara County Housing Authority stepped in and bought the El Camino Real property, preserving it as one of Palo Alto’s few bastions of low-income housing.
Now, the housing authority is moving ahead with its own redevelopment plan for the park at 3980 El Camino Real, one that would replace mobile homes, community buildings and a motel on the west side of Buena Vista with a new apartment building. The authority also intends to replace existing mobile homes at the remainder of the site with new ones, according to a report that the agency issued ahead of a Feb. 13 meeting with the Palo Alto City Council to unveil the proposal.
For Buena Vista, the new proposal would represent the biggest transformation since the housing authority took ownership of the 4.5-acre property from the Jisser family in 2017. At that time, the county Board of Supervisors and the Palo Alto City Council each kicked in $14.5 million to help prevent the park’s closure. The Housing Authority contributed $12 million to purchase and another $19.9 million to renovate the residential community, a process that included replacing Buena Vista’s aged utility systems and bringing mobile homes up to code.
RE: United States
Mon, Sep 1, 2025 – This table of 161 Investors, Park Owners and/or Park Management Companies is a work in progress as of Monday, September 1, 2025. The number of Sites data may not be accurate and is rounded up to the nearest quarter (25, 50, 75, 00).
The MHPHOA are performing ongoing research in this area to see if we can accurately account for the total number of Sites for each entity listed. Address and Website information are accurate based on recent audits performed for data verification against publicly available records.
RE: California / Mobilehome Residency Law (MRL) / GSMOL
Thu, Jan 30, 2025 – The MHPHOA HTML and the GSMOL PDF versions of the 2025 California Mobilehome Residency Law have been updated to reflect all changes for the 2025 year.
Division 2, Part 2, Chap. 2.5 of the Civil Code. The Mobilehome Residency Law (MRL) is the “landlord-tenant law” for mobilehome parks, which, like landlord-tenant law and other Civil Code provisions, are enforced in a court of law. The Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) does not have authority to enforce violations of the MRL.