Local, state, and federal decisions will affect the fate of some of California’s dwindling lower-priced housing.

California law says mobile home park owners who rebuild after a natural disaster must allow tenants to return — but that they can increase rental rates to cover the cost of rebuilding.

Senior citizens living in a California mobile home park are being forced to ditch their retirement pads due to “unaffordable” rent hikes. “Nobody wants to move,” Karyn Keyser, a resident ...