Ronald S. Javor

Ronald Javor practiced as a Legal Services attorney that dealt primarily with the CA Department of Housing and Community Development for over 40 years before retiring. His state practice focused on transactional law (affordable housing finance and development); mobilehome park Civil Code rights, obligations, and mobilehome park regulation; and rural and farmworker housing operations.

Mr. Javor received his J.D. in 1974. From 1974 to 1977, he was employed by Legal Services of Long Beach (San Pedro), dealing with landlord-tenant and affordable housing laws. Between 1977-2011, Mr. Javor served as Chief Counsel as well as other legal and management positions at the California Department of Housing and Community Development. He currently works part-time for the California State Treasurer's Office (Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Allocation Committee), serves as a Small Claims Court pro tem judge regularly, and has sat on several nonprofit boards dealing with homelessness and affordable housing issues.

Since 1986, Mr. Javor wrote, rewrote, and annually updated the Mobilehome Parks Law chapter of the "California Residential Landlord-Tenant Practice" manual. He has also written and rewritten an affordable housing standards chapter in the ABA's "The Legal Guide to Affordable Housing Development," and has written for other legal and nonlegal publications. Until 2019, Mr. Javor presented regularly at both legal and nonlegal conferences related to mobilehome park laws. He also has written seven children's books about youth overcoming barriers such as homelessness and disabilities.