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Barbara King, Del Mar Estates
My name is Bobbi King, and I am a leader in a Mobile Home Resident Coalition. I live in a manufactured home community called Del Mar Estates. We really need help with the unaffordable lot rents in manufactured home communities.
In 2003, I was declared legally blind. In 2008, I proudly purchased and secured a mortgage on a manufactured home. In 2010, I was laid off from my job when the recession hit California; I was 58. In 2012, I had no job, my savings were used up, and I had to file for SSDI.
I lost my home in October of that same year. My social security was still not enough to cover the mortgage, rent, and living expenses.
In 2017, I was offered a room to rent in the Del Mar Estates community, where I have lived as a renter since. My rent is 39% of my income, but I only have a bedroom and a bathroom, not even an entire home.
We need to address skyrocketing lot rents for manufactured homes, and AB1035 will keep me, and many more like me, housed and not homeless.
My name is Bobbi King, and I am a leader in a Mobile Home Resident Coalition. I live in a manufactured home community called Del Mar Estates. We really need help with the unaffordable lot rents in manufactured home communities.
In 2003, I was declared legally blind. In 2008, I proudly purchased and secured a mortgage on a manufactured home. In 2010, I was laid off from my job when the recession hit California; I was 58. In 2012, I had no job, my savings were used up, and I had to file for SSDI.
I lost my home in October of that same year. My social security was still not enough to cover the mortgage, rent, and living expenses.
In 2017, I was offered a room to rent in the Del Mar Estates community, where I have lived as a renter since. My rent is 39% of my income, but I only have a bedroom and a bathroom, not even an entire home.
We need to address skyrocketing lot rents for manufactured homes, and AB1035 will keep me, and many more like me, housed and not homeless.