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Litigation

Apr. 25, 2007

Despite Resistance, Mobile Homes Increasingly Go Condo

Attorney Richard Close is advising many of the growing number of mobile-home park owners who are converting to resident-owned communities, a process some say is a way to get around rent control and force out low-income residents.

By Max Follmer
Daily Journal Staff Writer

      LOS ANGELES - Looking to maximize the value of their investments in rent-controlled areas, a growing number of mobile-home park owners are carving up their properties and selling the individual lots to tenants.
      But many residents and affordable housing activists decry the conversions as a way to circumvent rent control and push out low-income re...

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