The LA County Board of Supervisors adopted an ordinance Tuesday to temporarily cap rents at mobile home parks in unincorporated areas.

The temporary 3 percent rent cap on mobile homes is scheduled to take effect on Oct. 4.

Last month, the vote on the temporary mobile home rent control was originally scheduled as an “urgency ordinance,” which would have needed four “yes” votes and taken effect immediately, according to Jarrod DeGonia, field deputy for Supervisor Kathryn Barger, who represents Santa Clarita as part of the Fifth District.

Barger voted against the ordinance, proposing an alternative, and Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas abstained from the vote.

Because of this, the measure was presented as a normal ordinance and passed 3 to 1. Supervisors Hahn, Kuehl and Solis voted yes.

“Mobile home parks are really the last bastion of affordable housing here in L.A. County,” said Hahn after the board first voted on the matter. “If the county ever wants to address the homelessness crisis, we are going to have to prevent residents from falling into homelessness. This is an opportunity to do just that.”

Mobile home park owners are mostly “mom and pop” family businesses who have saved to build a park that provides an affordable home ownership opportunity for thousands of county residents, according to Jarryd Gonzales, a representative of the Western Manufactured Housing Communities Association.

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Gonzales told the board that there is no evidence of a widespread problem with rent increases at mobile home parks, or of a connection to homelessness.

“The county seems in a hurry to create a solution for a problem that doesn’t exist,” Gonzales told the board during Tuesday’s meeting. “Mobile homes are not contributing to the county’s homelessness crisis — mobile homes are part of the solution.”

In a previous meeting, Barger agreed with this notion, and added that the high interest rate on the mortgage of mobile homes was a bigger factor in affordability than rent paid to landlords for space in the park.

“We are attacking the symptom and not the cause,” said Barger.

Although Barger voted against the ordinance, she proposed that the county invest in opening more mobile home parks on county land because the cost of housing people there would be a fraction of what it costs to build conventional affordable housing.

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