Sanger mobile home seniors seek protections from steep rent hikes
Sanger seniors on fixed incomes are pushing rent control as lot-rent hikes add to loans, insurance and utilities, with no easy place to move.
Sanger mobile home residents Dale Yurong and Linda Nye are pressing for rent control as steep lot-rent hikes threaten seniors who already pay a mobile home loan, homeowner’s insurance, utilities and maintenance. The fight has put pressure on Sanger leaders to spell out what authority the city actually has over mobile home parks and whether it can shield fixed-income residents from repeated increases.
In Madera, residents at The Meadows senior mobile home park protested rising rent in 2021 after increases began in 2014, when Kingsley Management Corporation of Provo, Utah, bought the park. In Fresno County, the Mobilehome Park Rent Review and Stabilization Commission was weighing a major rent hike at La Hacienda Mobile Estates in 2023.
Mobile home residents are often low-income or vulnerable households. They face a stack of monthly costs, including lot rent, a home loan payment, insurance, utilities and unit maintenance. If a park resident is evicted, moving the home is expensive and available space is limited, which leaves many owners with fewer relocation options than renters in apartments or single-family homes.
Rent stabilization has remained a recurring issue in Fresno County, and residents have organized repeatedly around the problem. In 2026, Sanger residents returned to the rent control issue and looked at ordinances from other California cities as examples for their own community.
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