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The City of Thousand Oaks recently updated its Mobile Home Rent Stabilization Ordinance (Thousand Oaks Municipal Code—Title 5, Chapter 25). This ordinance regulates rent for mobile home pads and protects tenants from excessive increases while allowing landlords a reasonable return on their property.

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In 2011, the City reached an agreement with park owners and tenants which outlined the amount space rents could be increased during a ten-year period. This Special Supplemental Rent Adjustment is set to expired on August 18, 2021. Going forward, annual rent increases will be calculated by multiplying 100% of the Consumer Price Index by the base rent.


Since the last time the City modified its Mobile Home Rent Stabilization Ordinance in 2011, the State of California has passed several laws that regulate mobile home parks. This includes changes to regulations such as updates to definitions and updates pertaining to vacancy and decontrol/recontrol. The City has also added relevant references to the governing Civil Code and other minor edits to provide more clarity. To comply with State law and provide more clarity, the City’s ordinance reflects these changes.


Following California Health and Safety Code section 18400.1, HCD conducts Mobilehome Park Maintenance (MPM) inspections to ensure compliance with health and safety laws. Inspections include the general areas, buildings, equipment, and utility systems of mobile home parks, each individual lot, and the exterior portions of individual manufactured homes and mobile homes in each park inspected. When a "Notice of Planned Inspection" has been posted in a conspicuous location within the mobile home park, the inspection will be conducted within 30 to 60 days of the "date posted" shown on the Notice of Planned Inspection. At least 30 days before the inspection of the mobile home park, an individual written notice of the inspection will be provided to each resident. Learn more here.

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