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Despite nearly eight months of seniors lobbying the Anaheim City Council for help, councilmembers this week shelved discussion of a rent control ordinance that could help seniors living at Rancho La Paz Mobile Home Park, who face looming rent increases.
Anaheim City Council members are moving forward with a rent-relief safety net program for all local seniors after debating – and rejecting – a rent relief program for seniors living at the mobile home parks, after seniors at Rancho La Paz mobile home park have pleaded for help for most of the year.
Rancho La Paz seniors have been lobbying Fullerton and Anaheim city councils for nearly six months for help on raising rents. Seniors secured a rent subsidy from Fullerton. Anaheim decided to let the market runs its course.
The Fullerton City Council decided to hold onto a temporary rent control ordinance to see if promises by Rancho La Paz senior mobile home park owner John Saunders work for the residents, while the city is looking to create its own rental subsidy fund for mobile home residents.
Seniors living at the Rancho La Paz mobile home park won’t find out until August if the Fullerton City Council will step in and help them manage rents with either a temporary rent control ordinance or a rent relief fund.
The Fullerton City Council will discuss Tuesday how to handle the incoming rent increases faced by seniors living at Rancho La Paz mobile home park — which could be a rental assistance fund or a future rent control ordinance.
The Anaheim City Council voted down two separate proposed apartment rent control ordinances, after hours of public comment from renters telling how difficult the incoming rent increases will be.
Seniors living at Rancho La Paz mobile home park will have to address the upcoming rent increases with the owner and without direct help from Anaheim after City Council members voted April 16 to indefinitely postpone a proposed six-month rent control ordinance.
Anaheim City Council members fought each other and tabled the mobile home rent control issue, but not before Councilman Jose Moreno was able to reschedule it to April 16 — Fullerton council members debated and directed staff to research and come back with potential solutions early July.
Following the outcry of seniors living at the Rancho La Paz mobile home park that straddles Anaheim and Fullerton, council members from both cities will consider options to cap rents at the parks.