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In the late 80’s and 90’s Oceanside Manufactured Home Alliance (OMHA) was very active and vocal on mobile home issues at both the city and state level. Rent-control was established in Oceanside in 1984 when the then mayor, Melba Bishop returned from a conference with a penciled version of our current Rent Control Ordinance. It has been a guideline for other mobile home communities since that time. With a strong rent control ordinance, OMHA faded away for a while.
In 1996 the park owners tried to abolish rent control with an initiative on the state ballot. They spent over one million dollars trying to get it passed. It was defeated primarily by Golden State Mobile Homeowners League (GSMOL)
In 2003 the same park owners tried again to find a way to increase their revenue and they went to the Oceanside City Council, asking for a change in the CPI from 75% to 100% and to add 15% when a home became vacancy. Twenty members from twelve different mobile/manufactured home communities met with Melba Bishop and Tim Sheahan (now President of GSMOL) to discuss ways to combat this move. Tim suggested that OMHA re-activate so as to show that we did not want any changes to the ordinance. Today OMHA has a strong presence both by working with mobile/manufactured home communities and the City of Oceanside to keep our Rent Control Ordinance strong.
