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Relocation payments in Palm Springs

In Palm Springs, city-approved conversions of rental multifamily housing require 3 months' rent per tenant, plus 1 month for each year over 3 years.

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Key points

  • Relocation pay: In Palm Springs, city-approved conversions of rental multifamily housing require 3 months' rent per tenant, plus 1 month for each year over 3 years.

Each rule below links to the section of the Palm Springs Municipal Code it was read from, with the code text one click away (checked October 2026). General information, not legal advice.

What Palm Springs's code says

Palm Springs code What Palm Springs's code adds
Amount
  • $6,000, adjusted for the CPI increase since January 1989.
    Applies: Mobile home park closure or change of use only, for example conversion to a condominium; the owner moves a single-wide mobile home.
    § 4.08.130 · code text
    mobile home owners who move their mobile homes shall receive six thousand dollars in relocation benefits for spaces occupied by single-wide mobile homes
  • $12,000, adjusted for the CPI increase since January 1989.
    Applies: Mobile home park closure or change of use only, for example conversion to a condominium; the owner moves a double-wide mobile home.
    § 4.08.130 · code text
    twelve thousand in relocation benefits for spaces occupied by doublewide mobile homes
  • $15,000, adjusted for the CPI increase since January 1989.
    Applies: Mobile home park closure or change of use only, for example conversion to a condominium; the owner moves a triple-wide mobile home.
    § 4.08.130 · code text
    and fifteen thousand in relocation benefits for spaces occupied by triple-wide mobile homes.
  • The mobile home's "in-place" value: its appraised value in a comparable park within 10 miles.
    Applies: Mobile home park closure or change of use only, for example conversion to a condominium; the owner does not move the mobile home.
    § 4.08.130 · code text
    Mobile home owners who do not move their mobile home shall be entitled to the "in-place" value of their mobile homes.
  • 3 months' rent paid by the tenant, plus 1 more month for each year over 3 years in the unit.
    Applies: Only for city-approved conversions of rental multifamily housing to another use; each tenant there when the application is filed or the year before.
    § 5.85.040 · code text
    The applicant shall be required to pay each tenant an amount equal to three month's rent paid by the tenant, plus one additional month for each year over three years the tenant resided in the unit.
When it is paid
  • Timing follows a relocation plan that avoids hardship or obstacles to orderly relocation; the rent commission must approve it.
    Applies: Eviction under a plan to end a mobile home space rental.
    § 4.08.130 · code text
    The plan shall adequately ensure that the timing of the payment of relocation benefits do not cause hardship or obstacles to the orderly relocation of a tenant. Said plan shall be deemed adequate and valid only after approval by the rent commission.
When relocation is owed
  • Eviction due to a change of use, including condo, co-op or other sold-space conversion, or full or partial park closure.
    Applies: Mobile home owners who rent a park space; park conversion or other change of use.
    § 4.08.130 · code text
    Any mobile home owner who is a mobile home park tenant shall be entitled to relocation benefits in the event that said tenant is evicted by virtue of an owner undertaking a change of use.
  • Converting any rental multifamily housing unit to a use other than rental multifamily housing.
    Applies: Applies when the city approves a permit, license or entitlement for the conversion.
    § 5.85.030 · code text
    Each approved application for any permit, license or entitlement for the conversion of any rental multifamily housing unit or units to any use other than rental multifamily housing, shall be conditioned upon the provision of the tenant assistance components described in Section 5.85.040 of this chapter, subject to the conditions provided.

Also in Palm Springs's code: Rent Control (§ 4.08.130) — mobile home park conversions only; Tenant Relocation and Protection Requirements (Ch. 5.85). This page does not summarize it yet.

The California rule underneath

Where Palm Springs's rule above does not cover a situation, state law still applies. For the statewide rule on its own, see Relocation under California's just-cause law.

CA state law The statewide rule underneath
No-fault eviction relocation assistance
One month's rent (as relocation payment or rent waiver), paid within 15 calendar days of the notice
Applies: For no-fault just causes (owner move-in, withdrawal from market, substantial remodel, government order) on covered units; regardless of the tenant's income.
Civ. Code § 1946.2(d)(3)(A)

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Frequently asked questions

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In Palm Springs, city-approved conversions of rental multifamily housing require 3 months' rent per tenant, plus 1 month for each year over 3 years.

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