One of California’s new housing laws, Senate Bill 79, is carrying unintended consequences that have Sunnyvale mobile home park residents worried they could lose their homes.
Gail Rubino is a mobile home activist who has been fighting to keep rents affordable, and when she heard about the passage of SB 79, which would allow new large-scale developments within half a mile of a passenger rail station, she knew she had to act.
“My reaction? ‘Whoops. Somebody goofed,'” she said…