As follow-up to a story we have reported on nearly a dozen times since last May (the last time was March 29, 2012), KPBS radio tells us the Oceanside City Council passed an ordinance last year to eliminate rent control on the seventeen MHCs in Oceanside, once the current home changes hands or moves. Opponents collected the necessary 15,000 signatures to put Proposition E to the ballot, which will be voted on this June. Councilman Jerry Kern, who calls it “vacancy decontrol”, says, “We cannot have the city paying for a program that in essence is taking away property rights from the land owner and transferring to somebody else.” MHProNews.com has learned Oceanside instituted rent control in 1984 to provide affordable housing for veterans and seniors.

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