SB 136: Mobilehome parks: mobilehome park program funding.

Existing law authorizes the Department of Housing and Community Development to make loans from the Mobilehome Park Rehabilitation and Purchase Fund, a continuously appropriated fund, to qualified mobilehome park residents, resident organizations, and nonprofit housing sponsors, and also authorizes the use of fund moneys for related administrative costs of the department. Existing law requires the department to adopt regulations for the administration and implementation of these provisions.

This bill would authorize the department to contract directly with nonprofit corporations that have significant experience working with mobilehome park residents, or acquiring, rehabilitating, and preserving affordable housing, and have statewide or regional capacity to deliver technical assistance to mobilehome park residents or community-based nonprofit corporations in order to assist them in acquiring, financing, operating, and improving mobilehome parks occupied by low- and moderate-income households. The bill would authorize moneys in the fund to be used for grants to provide these services. By adding a new purpose to a continuously appropriated fund, this bill would make an appropriation. The bill would prohibit the use of funds for the purpose of taking a mobilehome park by the state, county, or city by eminent domain. The bill would deem contracts entered into pursuant to these provisions to be for local assistance.

This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.