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The Curious Institution of Mobile Home Rent Control: An Analysis of Mobile Home Parks in California

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Carl Mason (University of California, Berkeley)
John Quigley (University of California, Berkeley)

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This paper analyzes the implications of rent control as applied to dwellings located in mobile home parks. This form of regulation differs from apartment rent control in that: it is applied selectively to a small portion of the housing stock, and; it regulates the site rents paid to the park owner, not the selling prices of mobile homes. We present a detailed case study of the effects of this institution in three mobile home parks in different cities and regions in California, documenting the capitalization of regulatory rules into the selling prices of housing, and raising questions about the legality as well as the efficacy of the institution.

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Paper provided by Berkeley Program on Housing and Urban Policy in its series Berkeley Program on Housing and Urban Policy, Working Paper Series with number 1066.

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  1. Sheppard, Stephen, 1999. "Hedonic analysis of housing markets," Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics, in: P. C. Cheshire & E. S. Mills (ed.), Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics, edition 1, volume 3, chapter 41, pages 1595-1635 Elsevier. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  2. Edward L. Glaeser, 1996. "The Social Costs of Rent Control Revisited," NBER Working Papers 5441, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  3. Edward L. Glaeser & Erzo F. P. Luttmer, 2003. "The Misallocation of Housing under Rent Control," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 93(4), pages 1027-1046, September. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  4. Hirsch, Werner Z. & Rufolo, Anthony M., 1999. "The regulation of immobile housing assets under divided ownership1," International Review of Law and Economics, Elsevier, vol. 19(3), pages 383-397, September. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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