Mobile home park tenants
What they say
Her campaign describes work across party lines to protect mobile-home residents. In the October 1 debate, James said she fought for residents against private-equity owners and described purchases across mobile-home communities, nursing homes, storage units and assisted-living facilities.
What the record shows ·
In 2020 she was one of sixteen sponsors, from both parties, of House File 2351 on mobile home park tenants; a subcommittee recommended it and it went no further. In 2022 she voted against the amendment that rewrote House File 2562, then for the bill, which became law. It gives tenants 90 days' notice of a rent increase or a cancelled lease, up from 60, remedies when a landlord fails to supply water or other essential services, and longer protection against retaliation. Her own bills went no further: House File 2337 (2024), 180 days' notice and a public justification for a rent increase; House File 2432 (2024), attorney general enforcement; House File 481 (2025), one rent increase per calendar year with insurance/infrastructure exceptions, which a subcommittee recommended; and House File 482 (2025), ending a lease only for a serious breach. She was first sponsor of the 2024 bills and one of two on the 2025 ones.
Why there is no assessment here
Her legislative activity is documented. The cited bills and votes do not independently establish the described private-equity purchases across the named sectors; that purchase assertion remains source-limited.
Limit: The law she voted for does not limit how often rent can rise or make a landlord justify an increase, which her own bills sought and did not get. HF 481 is a proposed frequency restriction with exceptions, not an enacted rent-price ceiling; HF 482 concerns termination for material lease violations. Those landlord-conduct proposals apply regardless of private-equity ownership.