Senior housing affordability and rising senior homelessness
Summary
Commissioners shared sobering numbers: senior homelessness rose 6.8% nationally last year, 48% of California's homeless are 50+, median rents are up 44% since 2000 while incomes rose only 11%, and corporate buys of mobile home parks keep pushing rents up. The county declined to pursue rent stabilization.
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Discussed at 1 meeting in the last 60 days; most recently Oct 15, 2026.
Impact analysis
Median rents have risen 44% since 2000 while incomes rose just 11%, squeezing fixed-income seniors.
Advocacy on these numbers aims to help fixed-income seniors stay housed.
Seniors in mobile home parks facing corporate rent hikes, and renters on fixed incomes, bear the brunt.
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