The San Jose Housing and Community Development Commission is recommending not to raise rents for residents living in the city’s 58 mobile home parks.
A majority of commissioners on Thursday didn’t support a proposed 10% increase to space rents once a mobile home is sold. The city Housing Department proposed the increase as a way to provide more revenue for capital improvements as it updates its decades-old mobile home rent policy. Commissioners voted 9-4 to accept only changes to the policy that conform with Assembly Bill 2782, which ended long-term leases from being exempt from excessive rent hikes.
Under the existing policy, property owners are allowed a 3% to 7% rent increase on each parcel every year. Anything more than that requires city approval, and owners can’t increase rent to market rate prices except when a property is abandoned, a resident is evicted or when a sale falls through…