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Limits on Mobilebome Rent Control, Low -Income Rental Assistance. Initiative Statute. I 199 Armament Against Proposition 199 PROPOSITION 199 DEVASTATES SENIOR CITIZEN MOBUZHOM OWNERS. Thousands of widows, widowers and other seniors will face logs of their mwbilehomes. 400,000 Califor*+iaw (mostly senior citizens) own mebilehomea, but not the land they sit on. They rent a small slice of bare land from a park owner. Unlike apartment tenants, they own their homes. Some monthly space, rents are higher than Social Security and retirement income. Senior Mobilehome owners are trapped when rents increase. It costs $10,000 to move the mobilehome, and available spaces are scarce. Homeowners must either pay the rent or lose their homes. Mobilehome owners who cant pay escalating space runts lose their equity and their homes, PROPOSITION 199 ,LETS MORILEHOMSE PARK .LANDLORDS R41SE RENTS WITHOUT LDf S. Without local rent protections, unlimited rent increases can be heaped upon captive homeowners. An 83-year-ald Los Angeles widow, faces the loss of her home of 20 years. Since LA.. Countpe rent control ordinance aspired, her rent has risen to $846 per month. while her Social Security ehWA totals only $783. She faces eviction, repossession of her home, and total disruption of her final years_ Under Proposition 199, teas of thousands of vidows and seniors wt71 face the loss of their homes. A 'no' vote on Proposition 199 helps her keep her home_ The AARP, Legislative Council for Older Americans and Congress of California Seniors recommend that you vote 'no' Fiease vote no oa the "Widows Eviction Initiative'. PROPOSITION 199 TAKES AWAY RE, ASSISTANCE FROM SENIORS, Deny be misled. Propasitiort 199 removes m,obilehome rent otections. Proposition 199's sspgonsors are mobilehome park landlords io want to raise Mobilehome rents without limit, whenever ...ey Choose. Proposltiom 199's so-called •rental assistance' is a farce. It gives a 109b discount on rents park owners alone deteri mne. What good is a 10% discm mt after rents have risen 50%? Few, if any, seniors will get the 'subsidy". Don't be fooled by the fraud. Remember the tobacco industry& fraudulent `No Smoking" initiative? Proposition 199 is just as phony. Proposition 199 mould wipe out more than ,$300 million in seniors' home equity. For every $10 rent increase, mobilehome equity is likely to decease by apprvcimately S1,000. Proposition 199 woWd raise rents, wiping out hundreds of millions in seniors' home equity. Senior 06— would be irreparably harmed PROPOSITION 199 GIVES POWER TO SACRAMENTO POLITICIANS, AND TALES IT AWAY FROM LOCAL VOTERS. Proposition 199 phases oat over 90 local initiatives and laws —laws paased by voters and local offiiciala. Proposition 199 prohibits local voters from ever passing another mobilehome rent protection law_ It gives the State l eWlature all power over mobilehome rents. Don't give mote power to Sacramento politi©ans! Proposition 199 wouldn't put a single police ofj`Fcer on the street Mobilehome rent protections are funded by fees paid by moWehome and park owners They cost taxpayers very little. VOTE NO ON PROPOSITION 199. DAVE BENhBS" Preaidan; Coldem State ifobahome Drones Leagueresm L) MARY TUCXER Stage Leg#latioe Committee Chair, Amerman Asseetasion of Retired Persona (AARp) LBIS WPIJI vGWN Prtrident, Cerwr— of Caliph mia semiov Rebuttal to Argument Against Proposition 199 A small special interest group, trying to protect their $300 million ooindfadl profit, has resorted to deceptive Statewide, mohilehome tests pav average space rent of ciauas. The vlettms are tens Of of thousanda of California families denied affordable housing by ill-conceived approximately $300 per month. Average statewide rents equal just 28% of social security rent regulations. income. THE FACTS ABOUT PROPOSITION 199: TAXPAYER GROUPS AGREE: Opponents deceptively claim "thousands of widows and other seniors Will face lose of their mobilehomes." The Proportion 199 doesn't take coauoi from cities and give it to the truth is: • Proposition 199 protects seniors and low income families. state, as opponents claim. It takes goveranoeat mmerty pleteLy out of private propriots issues. It maintains mat controls for all current tenants No tenant will be evicted or forced out by Proposition 199. • Preposition 199 eliminates several million per year in layer -ceded buresaejacy. PROPOSITION 199 PROTECTS LOW-INCOME i'ENAN'TS: PAUL GAriNS CITIZENS COMMITTEE fSPIRIT OF • Proposition 199 mattes a 1.0% rent rednmon available to PROP. 13), CALIFORNIA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, PARK approximately 100,000 law -income seniors and families not now protected. OWi�IERS AND CALIFORNIA MOB)EROME TENANTS AS.SOCIATTON AGREE: As tenants voluntarily move, Proposition 199 phases -in Privately funded tent reductions and r@zUres VOTE YES ON PROPOSITION 199 market fortes to make Mobilebomee more affordable for those seeking them. gDeALANAEMN pseaidcre� TO T'ilE G.S. CENSUS BUREAU: California Alabi[el orar Tl r oats AssociationACCORDING • Of 1,000,000 mobilehome tenants is California, only 30% are seniors, Of these, SO% own their homes &QCk tAL stlT1Z$g Nt Unitrd Seniary Aasoeiation outright with no mmmesge. LEWIS X UW.EB ^-rxidkPL4 Caufb►ma 2kw Lilmiead m Committee P96 Argumenta printed ea this page are the opinions of the authors and have not been checked for accuracy by spy official agevvrr. 39 JAN-10-199G 14:43 44 97% p.05 3