Existing law, the Mobilehome Residency Law, requires management of a mobilehome park to offer a renewed tenancy in the mobilehome park to any previous homeowner if the mobilehome park is destroyed as a result of a wildfire or other natural disaster and management elects to rebuild the park at the same location, as prescribed. Existing law requires management to, when a mobilehome tenancy is terminated due to damage or destruction as a result of a disaster, return to the homeowner any advance rental payments, as provided, and discharges a homeowner’s obligation to pay rent for the period during which the homeowner is required to be evacuated due to a mandatory evacuation order pursuant to a disaster.

This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would support mobilehome park communities that are damaged or destroyed by a natural or manmade disaster.