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California

  1. 1441 Manufactured-Home Residents Association (MRA1441)

    The 1441 Manufactured-Home Residents Association has been working hard to increase awareness of the vulnerability of residents in mobilehome parks. We have participated in other associations, especially the statewide organization, Coalition of Mobilehome Owners (COMOCAL.org), and our local organization, the Rowland Heights Community Coordinating Council (Rowland-Heights.org).

  2. California Alliance for Retired Americans (CARA)

    As an umbrella organization for more than 275 affiliated groups, CARA serves a combined membership of over 950,000 Californians. Its broad-based coalition includes senior centers, tenant associations, retired public employee organizations, trade union retirees, and a variety of other agencies and associations.

  3. Congress of California Seniors (CCS)

    As an umbrella organization for more than a hundred affiliated groups, CCS serves a combined membership of several hundred thousand Californians. Its broad based coalition includes trade union retirees, retired federal/state public employee organizations, senior centers, tenant and homeowner associations, other senior advocacy groups, church groups, and a variety of other agencies and associations. The Congress of California Seniors is a vital "grassroots" organization.

  4. El Dorado Mobilehome Owners Coalition (EDMOC)

    We are senior citizens, disabled Veterans, and low income families who have found a way to provide ourselves with a small piece of the American Dream by owning our own homes. Ours happen to be Mobile and Manufactured homes, located in El Dorado County’s mobile home parks.

  5. Golden State Manufactured-Home Owners League (GSMOL)

    Golden State Manufactured-Home Owners League (GSMOL) is a statewide volunteer organization dedicated to protecting and promoting the health, safety, welfare, rights, and investment of members throughout California. Our mission is accomplished primarily by legislative advocacy at national, state, and local levels, by judicious use of legal funds to protect homeowners, and by education of members so that they can help themselves solve local problems.

  6. Mobile Home Park Information (MHP411)

    Mobile Home Parks – Homeowner Risks and Rewards – Over 100 years combined experience promoting long-term affordability and stability. Nonprofit, Independent, No Industry Ties.

  7. Mobile Home Resident Coalition (The MHRC)

    The Mobile Home Resident Coalition (MHRC), a non-profit formed in August 2021, educates residents, housing advocates, and elected officials on the need for fair rent increases. MHRC distributes a monthly newsletter; compiles and disseminates media articles and interviews on MH issues; and researches legislators to find their platforms, the number of mobilehome voters in their districts, and their willingness to support statewide legislation for fair rent increases. Currently we serve residents in 81 parks in 31 cities with over 1,600 members. We are now partnering with the Western Center on Law & Poverty, Housing Now with its 175 member organizations, and MH Action (a national mobile home advocacy group).

  8. Mountain View Mobile Home Alliance (MVMHA)

    Mobile home owners have unique interests and concerns often misunderstood and even ignored by local government. The residents of Mountain View’s six mobile home parks are joining forces to change that, to make sure we have a voice at City Hall, and to protect the equity in our homes.

  9. National Manufactured Home Owners Association (NMHOA)

    The mission of the National Manufactured Home Owners Association (NMHOA) is to promote, represent, preserve, and enhance the rights and interests of manufactured home-owners throughout the United States.

  10. Oceanside Manufactured Homeowners Alliance (OMHA)

    OMHA’s Board of Directors has continued to show leadership throughout the years, allowing the Alliance to partner with mobile/manufactured home communities, and the City of Oceanside, in order to keep our Rent Control Ordinance strong.

  11. Rancho San Luis Rey Homeowners

    Rancho San Luis Rey Mobile Home Park is a 55 and older mobile home park community located at 200 North El Camino Real in Oceanside, California 92058.

  12. San Marcos Mobilehome Residents Association (SMMRA)

    San Marcos Mobilehome Residents Association (SMMRA) promotes, represents, preserves, protects and enhances manufactured/mobilehome-owner’s way of life throughout the jurisdiction of San Marcos, California.

  13. Santee Mobilehome Owners Action Committee (SMOAC)

    Serving the City of Santee Mobilehome Residents. SMOAC’s mission is to assist mobile home park residents in their efforts to develop collaborative relationships with mobile home park owners/managers in agreeably resolving any issues not in compliance with the State of California laws governing such matters.

  14. Sonoma County Mobilehome Owners Association (SCMOA)

    With Education, Communication and Integrity we want you to know… we’re working on your behalf! Our increased unity at local and state levels has attracted the support of powerful allies such as AARP, NAACP, Council on Aging and CA Association of Cities.

  15. South Bay Mobilehome Resident’s Alliance (SBMRA)

    The South Bay Mobilehome Resident’s Alliance (SBMRA) is a community advocacy group for mobilehome owners based in the South Bay of California. The mission of the South Bay Mobilehome Resident’s Alliance (SBMRA) is to serve as a vehicle to promote mobile home owners interests.

  16. Sunnyvale Mobile Home Park Alliance (SMHPA)

    An Alliance of Mobile Home Owners in Sunnyvale, California Mobile Home Parks to protect home owner rights, to address homeowner concerns, and to provide information and resources to achieve these ends.

  17. Tenants Together

    Tenants Together is a nonprofit organization dedicated to defending and advancing the rights of California tenants to safe, decent and affordable housing. Tenants Together works to improve the lives of California’s tenants through education, organizing and advocacy.

  18. The Sacramento Area Coalition of Mobilehomeowner Associations, Inc. (SAC)

    Official website of The Sacramento Area Coalition of Mobilehomeowner Associations, Inc.

  19. Yucaipa Mobilehome Residents Association (YMRA)

    YMRA is the voice of the mobilehome community in Yucaipa. YMRA is a 501(c)(4) Non-Profit Organization that has served the Yucaipa Mobilehome Park residents community since 1991.

Arizona

Illinois

Minnesota

  • All Parks Alliance for Change (APAC)

    All Parks Alliance for Change is the statewide organization for Minnesota’s 180,000 manufactured home park residents. APAC provides a vehicle for manufactured home owners to express their needs and concerns in their parks and in the larger community.

Oregon

  • Oregon State Tenants Association (OSTA)

    If you are an Oregon park or marina resident who owns their home, but rents the space or slip in which your home is located, then we are here for you. OSTA is your support network, a trusted source of information about your rights, and your advocate for more secure housing through improved legislation.

Washington

  • Association of Manufactured Home Owners (AMHO)

    The Association of Manufactured Home Owners (AMHO) is a membership based organization dedicated to promoting, representing, preserving, and enhancing the rights and interests of manufactured home owners in the state of Washington.

  1. California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD)

    Provides leadership, policies and programs to preserve and expand safe and affordable housing opportunities and promote strong communities for all Californians.

  2. Office of the Mobilehome Ombudsman

    The Mobilehome Ombudsman receives and processes complaints from the public and from public officials related to living in manufactured homes and mobilehomes. Staff provides information, coordination, referrals, and other assistance to help resolve complaints.

  3. TITLE 25. Housing and Community Development Mobilehome Parks and Installations Regulations

    Except as otherwise provided in sections 18300, 18303, and 18304, Health and Safety Code, the provisions of this chapter shall apply to the construction, use, maintenance, and occupancy of mobilehome parks, mobilehome and special occupancy lots, permanent buildings, accessory buildings or structures, and building components wherever located, both within and outside of mobilehome parks, in all parts of the state.

  4. California State Board of Equalization (BOE)

    Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) about Manufactured Homes in California. For example; Q: Are manufactured homes the same as mobilehomes? A: Although they may generally have the same meaning, for California property taxation purposes, the term mobilehome is now obsolete and was changed to manufactured home in Revenue and Taxation Code section 5801 in January 1992. However, the term mobilehome park remains a correct term for a community of manufactured homes.

  1. GSMOL – Resident Ownership of Manufactured Home Parks

    GSMOL is a nonprofit advocacy organization, dedicated to protecting the rights and quality of life of manufactured home owners. GSMOL educates homeowners on their rights, helps to solve problems for MH communities throughout California, and supports legislative efforts for the benefit of MH owners.

    • PMC Financial Services

      PMC Financial Services has been helping mobile home park residents buy their communities for almost 20 years. We have completed projects in California, Oregon, Washington, Utah, Minnesota and New Hampshire.

    • Resident Owned Parks (ROP) – David Loop

      David Loop is a Real Estate Attorney and past Homeowners Association President at resident-owned Aptos Knoll Park, near Santa Cruz, California.

  2. ROC USA®

    ROC USA® is a non-profit social venture scaling resident ownership of manufactured home communities since 2008. Together with ROC USA® Network, a group of regional non-profit affiliates, and ROC USA® Capital, a CDFI lending subsidiary, we work with 304 resident-owned communities nationwide.

    • California Center for Cooperative Development (CCCD)

      The mission of the California Center for Cooperative Development is to promote cooperatives as a vibrant business model to address the economic and social needs of our communities.

    • CaliROC

      CaliROC is a program at the California Center for Cooperative Development (CCCD), the California Certified Technical Assistance Provider (CTAP) affiliate for ROC USA®. CCCD and ROC USA assist in the transition of privately owned Manufactured Housing Communities to ROCs from the initial sale agreement to close of escrow and to educate the Board of Directors for many years after.

  3. Resident Owned Communities (ROC) in California

    The MHPHOA are currently developing a database of Resident Owned Communities (ROC) aka Resident Owned Parks (ROP) in the State of California.

  1. Google Search

    Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.

    1. Google Alerts

      Monitor the web for interesting new content.

    2. Google Earth

      Google Earth lets you fly anywhere on Earth to view satellite imagery, maps, terrain, 3D buildings, from galaxies in outer space to the canyons of the ocean.

    3. Google Images

      The most comprehensive image search on the web.

    4. Google Maps

      Provides directions, interactive maps, and satellite/aerial imagery of many countries. Can also search by keyword such as type of business.

  2. Bing Search

    Bing helps you turn information into action, making it faster and easier to go from searching to doing.

  3. Bizapedia.com

    Provides free online Company Search, People Search, Address Search, Phonebook Search, and Trademark Search tools.

  4. California Secretary of State

    Business Search – This search provides access to domestic stock, domestic nonprofit and qualified foreign corporations, limited liability company and limited partnership information of record with the California Secretary of State.

  5. Corporation Wiki

    The future of corporate history. Discover more about the companies and people that you do business with.

  6. Commercial Real Estate Exchange (CREXi)

    Commercial Real Estate Exchange, Inc. (CREXi) is the commercial real estate industry’s fastest growing marketplace and technology platform dedicated to supporting the CRE industry and its stakeholders. CREXi enables commercial real estate professionals to quickly streamline, manage, and grow their businesses using the industry’s most advanced transaction management solution.

  7. Department of Homeland Security – Mobile Home Parks

    An inventory of mobile home park locations and the number of mobile homes within those parks is essential for emergency preparedness and evacuation.

  8. HCD Mobilehome and RV Parks Search

    Use the criteria fields in this interface to find information about California Mobile Home Parks and RV Parks in a specific region. If you want to return a listing of ALL the mobile home and RV parks in the HCD database, leave all criteria fields blank and simply click the search button.

  9. LoopNet™

    Search listings and list availabilities with LoopNet, the most comprehensive resource for commercial real estate online.

  10. MHVillage.com

    New and used mobile homes for sale and rent. Dealers, retailers, and for sale by owner. Largest park and community database. Mobile home loans, financing, insurance and appraisals.

  11. Multi-Housing News (MHN)

    Multi-Housing News is the leading integrated resource for executives and companies that own, invest in, develop, manage and/or market multifamily real estate. MHN reports on critical news, trends and issues in real estate markets across the U.S. as well as those that affect the industry nationally.

  12. OpenCorporates

    In collecting this information, and matching up to other data, OpenCorporates has acquired database rights, but we strongly believe this information should be freely reusable, and so make it available (to the extent that we have the rights) under the share-alike attribution Open Database Licence.

  13. ProspectNow.com

    ProspectNow has the most complete residential and commercial real estate prospecting database on the market. The ProspectNow property database boasts more than 100 million properties (residential, commercial, and industrial) nationwide that can be searched by a property’s location, size, type and more.

  14. The Grissim Guides

    From Rainshadow Publications, the two most comprehensive, trusted and authoritative guides to manufactured homes, written by veteran journalist and author John Grissim.

  1. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics – Consumer Price Index (CPI)

    Use this interface to determine the CPI for Los Angeles, Orange and Riverside Counties. The West region includes Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming. Consumer Price Index for all urban consumers, all items, in the U.S., West, and selected metropolitan areas, not seasonally adjusted.

  2. HUD.GOV – California Fair Market Rents

    U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development – This system provides complete documentation of the development of the FY 2024 Fair Market Rents (FMRs) for any area of the country selected by the user.

MRL Protection Program

Sometimes, in mobilehome parks, disputes can arise between mobilehome/manufactured homeowners and park management. To help resolve some of these disputes, California created the Mobilehome Residency Law Protection Program (MRLPP) through the Mobilehome Residency Law Protection Act of 2018, Assembly Bill 3066 (Chapter 774, Statutes of 2018).

Who Can Submit a Complaint?

Must be a mobilehome / manufactured homeowner residing in a permitted mobilehome park.

What Types of Complaints can be Submitted for Consideration?

Complaints for issues within mobilehome parks related to Mobilehome Residency Law violations (California Civil Code). Common violations include illegal grounds for eviction, failure to provide proper notice of rent increases, or no written rental agreement between the park and mobilehome owner.

How do I submit my complaint?

Complaints must be submitted to HCD. HCD provides assistance to help resolve and coordinate resolution of the most severe alleged violations of the Mobilehome Residency Law. Visit the How to Submit a Complaint page for details on ways to submit your complaint to HCD.


  1. 2024 California Mobilehome Residency Law
    File Type: PDF, Pages: 145, Size: 3.3 MB
  2. 2012 Ley de Residencia de Casas Móviles
    Tipo de Archivo: PDF, Páginas: 103, El Tamaño: 716 KB
  3. 2019 Las Preguntas Más Frecuentes
    Tipo de Archivo: PDF, Páginas: 26, El Tamaño: 1.1 MB

CA MRL Online MRL FAQs RVPOL Online

Laws (California Health and Safety Code)

Regulations (Title 25)

HCD Complaint Form
  • Step 1: Complainant Contact Information
  • Step 2: Complainant Homeownership Information
  • Step 3: Mobilehome Park Information
  • Step 4: Complaint Information
  • Step 5: Power of Attorney (Optional)
  • Step 6: Review
  • Step 7: Certification and Signature

Complaint Assistance: If you require help with your mobile home park complaint submission, contact your HOA representative or you can contact the MHPHOA and we'll direct you to a representative for assistance.