In January 2025, a devastating wildfire tore through Pacific Palisades, destroying three mobile home parks – Pacific Palisades Bowl, Tahitian Terrace, and Malibu Village. In just one night, nearly 400 seniors, low-income families, veterans, and people with disabilities lost everything: their homes, their communities, their stability.

Over seven months later, we are still in limbo. The ashes have cooled, but we are scattered, displaced, and paying rent we cannot afford while our neighborhoods – the affordable housing the Palisades already had – sit abandoned. The Pacific Palisades Bowl has not even been cleared. It is filled with toxic debris that could wash into the ocean with the next heavy rain.

That is where Senate Bill 749 (SB 749) comes in. This bill, authored by Senator Ben Allen, strengthens protections for mobile home park residents if a park is closed or sold, especially after a disaster. It requires proper notice, return rights, and transparency. It is a step in the right direction.

But as written, SB 749 does not protect us. It only applies to future disasters. We are asking the California Legislature to make SB 749 retroactive to January 1, 2025, so it includes survivors of the Palisades Fire. If they do not, our existing affordable housing will be erased and replaced with developments we will never qualify for.

We are not asking for charity. We are not asking for new development. We are asking for the right to go home. This bill will not just help us – it will protect tens of thousands of mobile home park residents across California. As wildfires and climate disasters grow more frequent, we need stronger laws to protect the most vulnerable before and after disaster strikes.

Sign this petition to tell lawmakers: Make SB 749 retroactive. Protect mobile home residents. Help us rebuild and come home.