Mobile home parks are unique communities where residents own their homes but rent the land beneath them. The value of these parks is intrinsically linked to the residents' ability to pay lot rents. When investors acquire these parks at premium prices, they often offset their investment by increasing lot rents, placing a significant financial burden on residents, many of whom are seniors or individuals on fixed incomes.  This practice not only threatens the affordability and stability of our communities but also raises ethical questions about the commodification of essential housing. I urge you to consider the following actions to protect mobile home park residents:  1.      Implement Rent Stabilization Measures: Establish guidelines to prevent excessive lot rent increases that outpace inflation and residents' income growth.   2.      Right of First Refusal: Enact legislation that grants residents the opportunity to purchase the park before it is sold to outside investors.  There needs to be price discussions with regard to a fair price as the residents are directly involved in the value of the park.  It should be based on a value with lot rent in place and not the park value because of value perceived when lot rents raise substantially.   It is a complicated process but right now it is putting the owners of the mobile homes in a financial situation that they didn’t control. A fair increase can be justified but when the new owners raise it 75% it is a form of price gouging that has not been documented in our systems yet..   3.      Resident-Owned Communities: Provide financial and technical assistance to residents seeking to form cooperatives and purchase their parks collectively. We need more financial options for Resident Owned Communities (ROC) to get funds quickly and affordably. This is an investment in affordable housing for Florida. This can save money for Florida as the housing is already there and won’t need to be build. Otherwise these parks are becoming high end, vacation spots for higher income Snowbirds.  These measures would empower residents, preserve affordable housing options, and maintain the integrity of our communities. I respectfully request your support in introducing and advocating for legislation that addresses these concerns.  Thank you for your attention to this critical issue affecting many Floridians. 

Oakland needs clean air and better jobs; we cannot allow corporations dragging her dirty coal from Utah to pass through our new port facility. Brown needs to take a stand! So this petition asked the governor that immediately – we join our voices and people from all over the Bay Area concerned about the future of our planet.

You are on Notice. We have witnessed the failure of our democratic voting system in Arizona, New York and other states. If there are any voter irregularities of that scope and nature in California we hold you accountable. We insist the June 7th 2016 Primary election results not be certified until every discrepancy is decided by a neutral judge and all votes are counted, including provisional ballots.

All children deserve to feel like they belong, regardless of their ethnicity or culture, their faith or nationality, their gender identity or sexual orientation. Schools should be a safe haven for students to be accepted and included so that they can learn and grow. It's time for school leaders to take charge. Join our call: It’s time to change the culture of our schools and usher in a day where "inclusion is the new cool in school!"

An accurate Census count is essential to a fair and representative democracy. If we let the 2020 count be skewed by a dangerous question on citizenship status, real people will be deprived of the representation and resources they deserve. Only tested and necessary questions should appear on the Census -- which is why Congress must support the Census IDEA Act and mandate that all new Census questions undergo a three-year review process.

Earlier this year the Trump administration issued a new permit for TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline — an attempt to sidestep our previous court victory blocking this project. But the fight isn't over. Federal agencies, including the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, are still reviewing the project's environmental harms, and there are many. Tell the feds to protect our climate, waters and wildlife from the Keystone XL pipeline.

Republicans propose that students pay taxes on the tuition the university typically pays itself for their education under university grant programs, making it impossible to get an MA or PhD for most middle and lower class students. This brain drain would give both Betsy DeVos and Donald Trump a lower tax rate than a graduate student at Princeton under the new proposed tax plan.

Local Hawaii families are more likely to have elderly relatives living with them than people in any other state. Being able to growing old in your own home around your family is a distinct local value. The legislature should take up the challenge of the long term care commission and create a new social insurance program to help Ohana stay together!

West Virginia kids deserve to learn the scientific facts about climate change as part of a 21st-century science education. Please correct all inaccurate and misleading information about climate change in new science standards for K-12 students in West Virginia. Replace altered climate content with the original peer-reviewed climate science standards written by scientists and science educators.

21 new ballots have suddenly appeared in the Maine Senate District 25 election under incredibly shady circumstances. All of them are for the Republican candidate and have flipped the election in her favor. So far, Republicans have shut down attempts to investigate this potential fraud. Tell the Secretary of State and the Maine Senate that we deserve to know the truth and that this election must be decided fairly.