Dear Friend -



Help us protect our elders and vets who live in mobile homes from unscrupulous investors and rent-gougers.



Please urge our CA Senate Judiciary committee to support AB 2895.







Back in February we heard from Rancho La Paz mobile home park resident, Lupe Ramirez and Assemblymember Sharon Quirk-Silva <[link removed]>, who told us about important new state legislation, AB 2895, which would cap annual rent increases for mobile home residents.



The introduction of this bill came about after Rancho La Paz mobile home residents in Orange County learned that a developer, John Saunders, had bought their park (half in Fullerton and half in Anaheim), and decided to raise their lot rentals up to 65%!



For a community of retired, and in many cases disabled, residents living on fixed incomes, the news was tragic, yet somehow completely legal in California. Unable to afford these outrageous rent hikes, many of these residents will ultimately be pushed out of the homes that they planned to live out the remainder of their lives in!



Residents first approached their cities to step in. Anaheim City Council voted to do NOTHING, meanwhile Fullerton worked on an inadequate payment plan that will simply delay for a couple years the eventual eviction of most current residents. After months and months with no support from their cities, residents realized the only way to prevent this from happening was via state legislation.



Rancho La Paz resident (and retired Teamster) Lupe Ramirez and their newly formed Mobile Home-Owners Association worked directly with Assemblymember Sharon Quirk-Silva to write this statewide bill in order to stop this cruel, widespread practice.



Please watch this powerful press conference with Rancho La Paz residents and Assemblymember Quirk-Silva to hear their testmonies: [link removed]



Where is the bill now?



AB 2895 made it out of the Assembly, and is now before the Senate Judiciary Committee, and there is substantial opposition from real estate speculators and the mobile home industry.



1. Can your congregation or organization send a letter of support to the chair of the Senate Judiciary committee?



If you have a congregation or organization that's willing to endorse, please send in your support letters through the Senate Portal for the Judiciary Committee. This will make sure your organization is officially listed in support in their committee analysis.



Here is a sample letter you can send: click here <[link removed]>



After writing your letter, please submit it via this legislative portal link: [link removed]



- Login or create a profile

- Click "Submit a Letter"

- AB 2895 > Session Type: "Regular" > click "Search"

- Click "Next"

- Choose the org you want to submit as - if no organization is listed, click "Other Organizations" > then click "Create Organization.

- For Committee, mark "Judiciary". For author, mark "Quirk-Silva".

- Stance: SUPPORT

- Subject:  AB 2895 - SUPPORT

- Then upload and submit your letter as a .pdf or .doc



If you have any problems with the site, just let me know and I can help.







2. If your State Senator is on the Senate Judiciary Committee, can you call them today and ask them to support of our elders and AB 2895?







We need to make sure the members who sit on the Senate Judiciary Committee vote in support of AB 2895. Are any of these your State Senator? (Not sure? <[link removed]>) If so, please call them urging they vote YES.



1. Senator Hanna Beth Jackson – Chair(916) 651-4019



2. Senator Andreas Borgeas – Vice Chair(916) 651-40083. Senator Maria Elena Durazo(916) 651-40244. Senator Lena Gonzalez(916) 651-40055. Senator Brian Jones(916) 651-40386. Senator Bill Monning(916) 651-40177. Senator Henry Stern(916) 651-40278. Senator Tom Umberg(916) 651-40349. Senator Bob Wieckowski(916) 651-4010Simply call and leave a message with your Senator's staffer:



Hi, my name's _____, and I live in your district in ______.



I am calling to urge the Senator and the Judiciary Committee to please vote YES on AB 2895 (Quirk-Silva), a bill that will protect elders and vets from rent gouging and eviction from their mobile-homes.



We can't continue to allow unscrupulous investors to push elders and vets into homelessness like the ones in Rancho La Paz mobile home park in Orange County who saw their rents increased up to 65% last year. Rent gouging like this is morally reprehensible, and should not be legal in our state.



Can we count on the Senator to support AB 2895?







Please let me know once you've called or submitted a letter: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>.



More info about the bill can be found here:



Fact Sheet <[link removed]>



Bill Language <[link removed]>



God bless you all for your assistance!



In solidarity and gratitude,



Adam Overton

Faith-Rooted Organizer, CLUE

[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>

661-373-8679



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