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Limits on Mobilehome Rent Control. <br />Low -Income Rental Assistance. Initiative <br />Argument in Favor of Proposition INY <br />TAXPAYER GROUPS. SENIOR CITCLENS, HOUSING <br />ADVOCATES AND MOBILEHOME TENANTS ALL URGE A <br />-YES" VOTE FOR PROPOSITION 199. <br />PROPOSITION 199 WILL HELP STOP THE DECLINE OF <br />AFFORDABLE HOUSING IN CALIFORNIA. <br />Affordable mobilehome housing is rapidly disappearingg in <br />California. Over 600 mobilehome pules have closed since 1981. <br />In the last five years, only a handful opened in .jurisdictions <br />with rent regulations. <br />This dramatic decline is the result of local rent regulations <br />that drive up the cost of mobilehome housing while <br />discouraging maintenance and new construction. <br />UCLA economist Dr. 'Werner Hirsch, a national expert on <br />mobilehome housing, says local rent regulatioas artificially <br />increase the re -sale pTice of mobilehomes by thousands of <br />dollars, making units Tess affordable. <br />Contrary to opponents' chime, inflated re sale prices of <br />mobilehomes, not monthly pad rents, ccreate the biggest <br />obstacle to affordable mobilehome housing. <br />This is particularly important for seniors, since 80% purchase <br />their mobilehomes outright with no mortgave_ They then pay <br />only a pad rent, which averages appruxima6ij $300 per month <br />statewide. <br />PROPOSITION 199 PROTECTS CURRENT TENANTS, <br />IMPROVES ACCESS. <br />Proposition 199 preserves rent control for current tenants. <br />No one with rent control will lose it. Market prices take effect <br />onl, when current tenants move Out. <br />The U.S. Census Bureau reports the average age of <br />mobilehome tenants in California is only 46 years old. Many <br />rdabi h <br />rent regulatians inflate mobilehome re -sale prices. <br />Proposition 199 requires rent reductions for those truly in <br />need, and requires park owners to privately finance these <br />reductions. 'There is no cost to taxpayers <br />PROPOSITION 199 Wn.L SAVE SEVERAL MILLION PER <br />YEAR FOR LOCAL GOVFsRNMENT. <br />California taxpayers have shelled out tens of millions for <br />attorneys and burpauc ats to administer the hodgs of 102 <br />different mobilehom <br />e rent regulations tahroaghout alifornis. <br />And the bill keeps going up with taxpayers spending several <br />trillion more each year to administer these regulations --our <br />tag dollars an better spent on police, fire and public services. <br />Proposition 199 will end this waste. <br />LOCAL MOBIUTIOME RENT REGULATION HAS BEEN A <br />FAJLLM. <br />Leval mobilehome rent regulation has had precise)y the <br />opposite effect its promoters predicted, increasing housing <br />costa, reducing supply, decreasing maintenance and creating a <br />costly new level of government bureanmmcy. <br />PROPOSITION 199 IS A FAIR. SOLUTION. <br />Economists, housing advorates and taxpayers all recognize <br />it's time for a change. But opponents argue for continuation of <br />this failed policy, seeping to protect the $330 million windfall in <br />re -sale value they gained when local regulations were first <br />adopted. <br />The interests of all Californians for affordable housing and <br />reduced government bnreaucra out -wen h the narrow <br />interests of this small group. VM YES ONROPOSITION <br />199. <br />+ younger families loolnng to mobilehomes for affo a ousnne <br />are denied aemss because of the effecta of local rent regulations. <br />LEWLS S- ViIIza <br />By restoring market forces, Proposition 199 wiill make <br />Predden,4 The C44fornin 1'ax'Limactio" Co*vnatee <br />purchasing a mobilehome more affordable for seniors, young <br />SANDRAL, BUMER <br />families and others. <br />irersidpn4 UmApdSeniors Assocudwn <br />PROPOSITION 199 PROTECTS THE TRULY NEEDY. <br />VICKIE X. TALLEY <br />Local mobilehome rent regulations apply to all tenants <br />ExcesrioeDirmtor,dfa:wfaeevsadHowure <br />within a jurisdiction, whether they need them or not Poor rind <br />F.ducahonW?Vuo of Ornt wo. Rtverside <br />fixed -income persons arc denied affordable housing because <br />and Son SernariCna Co w.t et <br />Rebuttal to Argument in <br />Favor of Proposition 199 <br />Preposition 199 wiU race rents and phase out rental assiaturtee <br />for senior citizens <br />The American Association of Retired Persons (AARP), <br />California Council of Churcbes, and California AFL CIO urge a <br />`NO" vote on Proposition 199. <br />Proposition 199 takes away rent -increase protections From <br />hundreds of thousands of seniox citizen mobiiehome owners. <br />Don't be fooled. Proposition 199's sponsors are mobilehome <br />park landlords who grant to raise rents, not louver them. <br />Why would mobilehome park landlords spend millions on <br />Proposition 199 to reduce rents? <br />They can voluntarily lower rents whenever they wish to help <br />the needy! <br />Their "rental asaistance" is a smokescreen for huge rent <br />increases. <br />Proposition 199 won't fund new public services. Mobilchome <br />and perk owner ?rgiadration fees pay certain mobilehome rent <br />control casts. <br />Park landlords falsely claim Proposition 199 will save money <br />to pay for public services. It won't. Mobilehome and pans <br />owners pay fees that fund rent control administration, <br />If Prnpnsitiion 199 passes, those fees will disappear. There'll be <br />no new. money far public services. <br />Proposition 199 will wipe out the investments of thousands of <br />senior citizen mobileAc" a owners. <br />It will disrupt senior citizens' lives. <br />Proposition 199 will cost mobilehome owners over $300 <br />million in lost home equity. <br />Preposition 199 won't create one new unit of afjbrdable housing. <br />It will rinse rents and realm mobilehomes tanaffordable_ <br />Mobilehom a park landlords claim rent control has <br />discouraged new park construction- California law already <br />exempts all new mobilehome parks built since 1990 from local <br />rent regulation. <br />PLEASE VOTE `440" ON PROPOSITION 199. <br />WELLLtMA. CRAVEN <br />State Senator, Xrprablican <br />JACK O'CONNELL <br />Sta" SenaMp, gemoerw <br />PATW CIA Wffi7NEY WLSR <br />exucu ioe D&viceor, Coiif6rmi4a CvwtcU of Churches <br />38 Argumenta onoted on this page are the opinions of the aothom and h,ve not been checked for accuracy by any oMCW agency. P96 <br />JAN-10-1996 14:42 44 97% P.04 <br />38 <br />