The city has the most mobile home parks in California.
Quail Hollow Mobil Home Park in San Jose, Calif., on Monday, Dec. 4, 2023. San Jose, the city with the most mobile home parks in California, has adopted new rules to protect tens of thousands of park residents from displacement by making it more difficult to redevelop the sites for other purposes.
“You’re helping add layers of protection against displacement,” mobile home resident Jill Borders told councilmembers before the June 11 vote. “You’re helping answer the question that my 9-year-old daughter asked me after we were evicted: ‘How can I be born and not have a place to live?'” But in 2015, after residents at the Winchester Ranch Senior Mobile Home Park opposed developers who sought to convert their community into apartment buildings, mobile home owners across the city grew worried about getting pushed out. The Winchester Ranch residents eventually struck a deal that guaranteed them a spot at the new development.
“This is an added layer of protection if the owner of those properties hypothetically wanted to redevelop them for some other use,” said San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan. Schoennauer, who represented the group that redeveloped the Winchester Ranch park, credited the conversion with increasing the number of housing units on the property from around 110 to almost 700. The developer also compensated mobile home residents and offered them the opportunity to live at the new apartment complex at a reduced rate.California pushes insurers to cover more homes.
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