By Allison Jarrell
A meeting of the city’s Housing Advisory Committee on Sept. 16 brought another full house to the San Juan Capistrano City Hall, as mobile home residents from across the city gathered to hear the recommendation of the committee to the City Council regarding the recent El Nido Mobile Estates rent hike of $641 a month across the board. The increase more than doubled the rent of some residents effective Sept. 1.
All three Housing Advisory Committee members concurred with the city-appointed hearing officer Michael Roush’s ruling that the mobile home park owner Richard Worley’s rent increase “is not proper” and the City Council “should reverse the rent increase to no lower than the maximum allowable increase” under the city’s rent control ordinance.
The committee’s recommendation to reverse the rent increase will go before the City Council for final review and a vote at a special meeting set for noon on Monday, Oct. 5.
Unbelievable! I take it the owner has other plans for the mobile home park? The news article said something about rent controls. What is the fine/punishment for not adhering to rent control regulations?
I thought under rent control that an owner can’t raise the rent more then a certain percentage. Like our is about 12%, which is around 13 dollars a year. Trust me we watch all this as the owner of our park is ELS and they have tried to break rent control in other parks. So how is this owner getting away with this.
http://www.marinij.com/general-news/20140114/supreme-court-denies-contempo-marin-petition-to-review-san-rafael-rent-control-ordinance
Please read the above link. ELS tried to do same thing with Contempo Marin and the State Supreme court nixed ELS bid to overturn rent control