HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif.—Some senior residents of mobile home parks pressured the city council June 7 to put limits on rent increases on the November ballot, saying many of the area’s parks are being purchased by investors who are hiking the rent for space by as much as 52 percent.
For months, residents have been holding demonstrations and urging the city council to consider the issue, which would be a change to the city’s charter.
A group called the Skandia HOA, which is a coalition of 17 mobile home parks, is advocating for the change.
“Stand up for us,” mobile home resident Kim De Sante, one of about a dozen commenters on the issue, said to the council….