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Residents of Trinidad Extended Stay who’ve seen their rents go up for years in violation of a rent control measure met Thursday. Since discovering late last year they should have been protected by Measure V, a voter initiative passed in 2016, they’ve still had to pay the overcharge every month.
Following successful efforts to get a mobile home rent control ordinance passed in Arcata in 2017, an advocate for mobile home owners is organizing a meeting to kick the idea around for the city of Trinidad.
Residents of Trinidad Extended Stay, a park just outside Trinidad city limits, have faced yearly rent increases despite the ordinance; for some, rates are well over the limit set.
The Board of Supervisors approved a full set of guidelines Tuesday for renters and landlords in mobile home parks, the result of a 2016 voter initiative that aimed to stabilize rents in communities in unincorporated areas of Humboldt County.