In January, the Palisades Fire ravaged coastal Los Angeles, destroying not only luxurious mansions of celebrities, but also two essential mobile home parks, Palisades Bowl Mobile Estates and Tahitian Terrace.

These parks were home to retirees and long-time residents who relied on a middle-class lifestyle, like co-chair of the Palisades Bowl Community Steering Committee and displaced resident, John Brown, in one of the area's few remaining affordable communities The entrance to the community was like right off Pacific Coast Highway there.

Residents still face challenges that can make a mobile home owner's path to disaster recovery more difficult than that of single-family homeowners.

So many people didn't have any insurance at all.

When I speak to that, it's partially about all of the Palisades, because I know there was an issue, but also specifically for the mobile home park.

Since residents own their homes but lease the land underneath them, whether and when they're able to rebuild will also depend on whether park owners choose to replace infrastructure damaged in the fire.

The main obstacle that we faced from the beginning was just getting some of the initial cleanup to start happening, because our park owners were unresponsive.

We had to fight very hard just to get that basic initial cleanup done.

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

Democratic state senators proposed a state-run relief fund that would help families and individuals who were affected by the recent fires but unable to get federal aid.

Legislators could award extra funding to a state program that supports repair and replacement of mobile homes and parks, including those affected by a natural disaster.

For CalMatters, I'm Mia Henry with reporting by Felicia Mello.