AB1542 PASSES!

A bill sponsored by HAG and its allies - AB1542 - was all but given up for dead when the state Senate failed to approve it in a vote taken Friday, 9/7. The bill gives greater protections to mobilehome residents where the park owner wants to convert the park to condominiums, and was hotly opposed by the Realtors, the park owners association, and property rights groups (the "Prop 90 crowd").
But the bill's sponsors, Assemblymember Noreen Evans and Senator Ellen Corbett, refused to give up. With the help of hundreds of mobilehome park residents around the state who called their senators to urge a yes vote, and help from organizations like the Western Center, CRLA, CMRRA, CARA, the League of Cities (!), organized labor, and GSMOL, two more senators voted for the bill and it passed today 21-14.
But we're not there yet... the bill needs the Governor's signature to become law. He's got a couple weeks to decide whether to sign or veto it. We need to show the gov that thousands of mobilehome residents and housing advocates around the state want him to sign this bill. Please fax a letter to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger urging him to sign AB1542 into law. Here's the address and fax number:

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
State Capitol Building
Sacramento, CA 95814
Phone: 916-445-2841
Fax: 916-445-4633

Special thanks go to Noreen Evans and Ellen Corbett and their staffs for really going the extra mile to get this important but controversial bill passed.