Kingstown Mobile Home Park v. Strashnick, 774 A.2d 847 (2001)

Citation: Kingstown Mobile Home Park v. Strashnick, 774 A.2d 847 (2001)
Parent Document: Kingstown Mobile Home Park v. Strashnick, 774 A.2d 847 (2001)
Jurisdiction: Rhode Island (state)
Effective Date: 2001-06-26
Original Source: https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/1515698/kingstown-mobile-home-park-v-st... ↗

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The United States Supreme Court rejected the argument that the interplay between a city mobile home rent control ordinance and California's Mobilehome Residency Law  which limited the bases upon which a park owner may terminate a mobile home owner's tenancy  rendered "the mobile home owner * * * effectively a perpetual tenant of the park, and [that] the increase in the mobile home's value thus represents the right to occupy a pad at below-market rent indefinitely." Yee v. City of Escondido, 503 U.S. 519, 527, 112 S.Ct. 1522, 1528, 118 L.Ed.2d 153, 165 (1992). The Supreme Court reasoned that

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