Consumer resources related to living in manufactured homes, mobilehomes, employee housing facilities, and factory-built housing. See below for important information including complaint resolution options, home installations on a foundation system, fire safety, carbon monoxide, and more.
Mobilehome Assistance Center
Receives and processes complaints related to living in manufactured homes, mobilehomes, employee housing facilities and factory-built housing.
Mobilehome Assistance CenterMobilehome Residency Law Protection Program
Helps resolve certain disputes between mobilehome/manufactured homeowners in mobilehome parks and park owners/management.
Mobilehome Residency Law Protection ProgramManufactured Homes and Mobilehomes on a Foundation System
How to Report the Installation of Manufactured Homes, Mobilehomes, and Multifamily Manufactured Homes
- By an HCD-Licensed Dealer to an Owner-Builder Installed on a Foundation System (PDF)
- By an Owner-Builder onto a Foundation System (PDF)
- Procedures for Cancelling Title and Registration of a Used Manufactured Home, Mobilehome, or Multifamily Manufactured Home Currently on a Foundation (PDF)
- Submit a complaint for a home installation
Responsibilities of a Manufacturer, Dealer or Local Enforcement Agency During the Sale and Installation
- Manufactured Homes Installed on a Foundation System as an Improvement to Real Property (PDF)
- Manufactured Homes Installed on Pier/Pad or on a Foundation System as Chattel (PDF)
Lead Paint
- California Department of Public Health’s Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Branch provides information on lead-based paint and lead hazards.
- Protect Your Family from Exposures to Lead provides information on the sources of lead at home, how to make your home lead-safe, and protecting children where they learn and play.
- National Center for Healthy Housing
Fire Safety
- Fire Prevention and Community Risk Reduction is provided by the U.S. Fire Administration and helps increase community awareness about fire safety and preparing for and preventing home fires.
- Smoke Alarms
Additional Resources
- Mold and Dampness
- EPA Mold Resources
- Manufactured Home Roof Mounted Solar Panels Advisory (PDF)
- Protect Your Family from Carbon Monoxide Poisoning (PDF)
- Legal Aid and County Community Resources (PDF) provides local resources within your county.
- Asistencia Legal y Recursos Comunitarios por Condado (PDF) proporciona recursos locales dentro de su condado.
- Guide to Affordable Manufactured Home Best Practices (PDF) seeks to encourage more utilization of this housing type by the affordable housing community.
- Manufactured Home Construction Safety Program discusses U.S. Housing and Urban Development manufacturer and retailer responsibilities as well as the federal standards of manufacturing for these homes. See State Administrative Agency for manufactured home concerns in California.
- CalCAP Seismic Safety Loan Program
Can help with financing to seismically retrofit a mobilehome, manufactured home or multifamily manufactured home that is currently registered with HCD. - Department of Consumer Affairs licenses professionals and enables consumers to check license status, investigates consumer complaints on issues under its jurisdiction, and educates consumers by giving them needed information to avoid being victimized by unscrupulous or unqualified people who promote deceptive or unsafe services.
- Department of Motor Vehicles