Proposition 199 will raise rents and phase out rental assistance for senior citizens.
The American Association of Retired Persons (AARP), California Council of Churches, and California AFL-CIO urge a ``NO'' vote on Proposition 199.
Proposition 199 takes away rent-increase protections from hundreds of thousands of senior citizen mobilehome owners.
Don't be fooled. Proposition 199's sponsors are mobilehome park landlords who want to raise rents, not lower them.
Why would mobilehome park landlords spend millions on Proposition 199 to reduce rents?
They can voluntarily lower rents whenever they wish to help the needy!
Their ``rental assistance'' is a smokescreen for huge rent increases.
Proposition 199 won't fund new public services. Mobilehome and park owner registration fees pay certain mobilehome rent control costs.
Park landlords falsely claim Proposition 199 will save money to pay for public services. It won't. Mobilehome and park owners pay fees that fund rent control administration. If Proposition 199 passes, those fees will disappear. There'll be no new money for public services.
Proposition 199 will wipe out the investments of thousands of senior citizen mobilehome owners.
It will disrupt senior citizens' lives.
Proposition 199 will cost mobilehome owners over $300 million in lost home equity.
Proposition 199 won't create one new unit of affordable housing. It will raise rents and make mobilehomes unaffordable.
Mobilehome park landlords claim rent control has discouraged new park construction. California law already exempts all new mobilehome parks built since 1990 from local rent regulation.PLEASE VOTE ``NO'' ON PROPOSITION 199.
WILLIAM A. CRAVEN
State Senator, Republican
JACK O'CONNELL
State Senator, Democrat
PATRICIA WHITNEY-WISE
Executive Director, California Council of Churches