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Desert Palms mobile home park residents demand better living conditions

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Residents are saying no more to the discrimination and threats to the health and safety that residents, children, persons of special needs, and elderly face at Desert Palms mobile home park.

By Berta Suarez, community resident and activist at the Desert Palms Mobile Home Park Community

For years now, residents at the Desert Palms Mobile Home Park community have been experiencing unbearable and unjust living conditions. Residents are saying no more to the discrimination and threats to the health and safety that residents, children, persons of special needs, and elderly face.

They will address Lancaster City Council on Tuesday, Oct. 14 at 4:30 p.m. to demand an immediate end to these abuses of vulnerable residents.

Living Conditions at Desert Palms Mobile Home Park

The well-water system has been deteriorating for many years. Brown water frequently comes out from the taps and pipes, and the drains fill with sediment. Because the system is in such bad shape, there are frequent, unannounced water shut-offs that leave our children, persons of special needs, disabled, elderly, and sick with no water for our homes, sometimes for up to three whole days. Residents who are ill and disabled are unable to cleanse their soiled bodies of urine and feces, putting their health at tremendous risk.

Desert Palmdale mobile home park is located at 2515 East Avenue I in Lancaster.
Desert Palms mobile home park is located at 2515 East Avenue I in Lancaster.

During one of the recent water shut offs, a special-needs child with epilepsy had convulsions because there was no water to operate the swamp cooler that he needs to maintain the temperature of his home. The water system has degraded to a point where it has been suggested that residents use stagnant pool water to flush their toilets and for other basic needs.

There are also ridiculously high electricity, gas, utility, and rent bills. One resident paid around $300 for electricity and $200 for gas, a total of nearly $500 for utility bills alone. Though she complained that these figures were incorrect, she has yet to be reimbursed! She is not the only one who has received these astronomical utility charges, even though the utilities are submetered at each mobile home and the park owns solar panels on the property that get free electricity from the sun and provides income from the main utility company for the extra power provided to the grid.

Rent is around $400 to nearly $500 per month for the space rent alone. These charges are extremely high considering the lack of amenities and the humble home structures. For example, the swimming pool has been closed, the laundry room full of broken laundry machines is closed and the clubhouse is closed, no longer available for the use of the residents. Instead it is being rented out by the park for use as private storage. The playground that was open for the kids to play in has been dismantled and closed, and children are now prohibited to play near the shaded areas near trees on the property.

There is no grass to speak of. Management threatens to have guests’ vehicles towed due to the insufficient parking spaces, and continues to threaten our guests even when they park in unused dirt patches on the property.

Retaliation against community members

This Mobile Home Park is what many poor and special needs children, elderly and the sick call their community. This is their home. Too many residents are afraid to speak up about these issues for fear of discrimination and retaliation from management. Despite this fear, residents have been hosting meetings at their homes to address these issues and have spoken to the mayor and city council at Lancaster City Council Meetings regarding the intolerable living conditions at the park.

Since I, Berta Suarez, spoke with the mayor at the City of Lancaster Council Meeting on August 26, 2014, city workers and LASD deputies have been investigating the Desert Palms mobile home park and have been speaking with park management regarding the water and other issues.

Rent is around $400 to nearly $500 per month for the space rent alone, which is extremely high considering the lack of amenities and the humble home structures.
Rent is around $400 to nearly $500 per month for the space rent alone, which is extremely high considering the lack of amenities and the humble home structures.

No changes have been made as of yet.

Because these complaints have led to investigations, the park management is now retaliating against residents. Management has recently given letters to residents involved in tenant meetings stating that they need to perform needless and exaggerated repairs to the exterior of their mobile homes. If they do not complete the repairs by the third notification letter, they will be evicted and charged $500. Management has not given tenants enough time to perform these tasks, demanding they be completed within seven days from the original notice. These are families who struggle to provide basic necessities for their children and are clearly unable to set aside work days or come up with the funds to pay for paint and other supplies. These are also residents who faithfully pay their rent every month.

This is clearly retaliation and has caused more residents to fear speaking up about their problems at the park. It is clear management is trying to find ways to evict tenants for demanding that conditions at this park improve.

Call to action

The most vulnerable tenants, which include children, people with special needs, and elderly community members have been enduring injustice for years at the Desert Palms Mobile Home Park Community. To this day, nothing has been done to resolve their issues.

Indeed, conditions are rapidly deteriorating.

Residents are organizing and documenting these abuses for themselves, but we need community leaders and our neighbors to stand beside us. Otherwise, these problems will persist in our park for many more years.

We say enough of these living conditions! Enough with the retaliation!

Please join us, write letters of support and stand with us in the fight for our basic, living rights!

We will gather this Tuesday, Oct. 14 at the Lancaster City Council Meeting at 4:30 p.m. so that our voice can be heard loud and clear: We demand better living conditions! We demand justice!

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52 comments for "Desert Palms mobile home park residents demand better living conditions"

  1. Come on ppl I know folks who have live in that hole for decades and have been complaining about the same issue the entire time. MOVE if thing are that bad.

    • You obviously do not reside in a Mobile Home. Just move? Seriously? Do you understand the cost associated with moving a Mobile Home? About $12-18k. The older home you cannot even move, they will fall apart. These are all home owners, who pay space rent to some greedy company every month,, who just take take take and never give anything back. I just adore people who speak about an issue they clearly have no experience nor knowledge of.

  2. I recall that several years ago, many mobile homes were upgraded with news mobile homes; the old ones were to be gone by now. I see so many old, ugly and unsafe looking mobile homes/parks in many areas of the AV. The City of Lancaster is responsible for going after the owner(s) as they allowed them to do business here. The rents sound very cheap and that’s the main reason that these parks are not maintained. I really don’t understand why this has been allowed to go on and on.

    • This is a common misconception. Most mobile home parks do not own the homes within the park, the residents do and only lease the land. When rent is mentioned, it is for the land itself plus any utilities. The reason for the notices Ms. Suarez mentions are to improve the overall appearance of the park. Residents are ultimately responsible for the upkeep of their homes. The park is charged with the upkeep of all common areas and systems leading up to the home itself. Anything past our meters (electric, gas, water and sewer sewer lines for example) is not ours to repair.

      • I’m in the same boat in my park, just down the street on Ave. I. One reason it’s tough on us is that..all the renters in the park own their Mbile Homes. There is not one Section 8 in here. So we have to cover all the increase in space rents, pay the high utility bills and find a way to cope in the hot summer months and the cold winters.
        The big large trees in our park and others, are humongous…they were planted in he 1950’s! Their roots stretch to Edwards and Boron!! joke…
        but their roots are destroying the sewer lines in the park. So..it’s up to the Park Owner, someone who lives down below, to pay for the upgrades, maintenance etc. Park Owner can get rents raised, but there’s a moratorium on that, he has to go through the city of Lancaster, but must get bids and proof of how much and why he wants to raise rents on us. Rent Control is on our side. In our case, he wants to raise all our rents by $200.00 bucks a month…. and…that is why we have it tough,,no section 8 here, no help with rents..because we own our homes and it’s a matter of owner wanting to become rich like in the 50’s but it’s now 50 years later and owner can’t make the kind of money he made in the 1950’s. It’s critical time to upgrade these parks. It comes down to money. He doesn’t want to pay. Fat cat at the top likes it that way.

  3. Because of my medical condition, I could not make the meeting, What happened?. Would some one please keep us up to date. Thank you.

  4. I drove through there yesterday to see for myself …..It looks to be a very old park with the standard of minimal required standards of maintenance , yet the maintenance of the park is passable by city code and regulations…..SOME of the Individual homes and their spaces were well maintained by people who actually may have pride in where they live, Others , NOT SO MUCH. People who do NOT care or keep up their homes want to retaliate when given a violation notice or clean up notice. They don’t want to take responsibility and spend their money or time ( they are lazy)…. That is the individuals problem NOT managements!…..but the careless residents want to blame management and try to work the system….I have been a property manager for years…. and have seen so much of this….This park caters to the less fortunate and low income population…. there are many other people there who were rejected by just about every place in the AV except this place who willingly cut these people a break based on their income , past rental history, backgrounds, bankruptcies , and other situations that would hinder then from living anywhere else….You would think these people would be grateful and take pride in their homes and take responsibility….it is so like SOME cases of section 8,, ( and I said SOME not ALL)….the residents are not grateful, they take advantage, don’t have pride, and destroy the owner’s houses….Then when confronted they immediately try to build a case against the owner and blame them!?….that is why people are starting to be less willing to rent for section 8!!….then there are tweekers and negligent parents…..when there is low income there is most likely low lifes!

    • Are you the Manager of the Park down the street?, it sounds like it. If not, I think others will agree that with your mind set you have a bias opinion, and see tenants as the lesser and obviously you are not professional, and you are the type of Manager that creates these conditions.

      • Normally a property manager is responsible for the conditions of the entire property for which they oversee. They must ensure that the unit is in good repair at all times. In this instance however, the homes are not owed by the park. I am not sure how a manager could create this type of condition in regards to privately owned homes.

        All area in which park has control (common areas, infrastructure etc.) are clean in in acceptable condition.

        • Obviously, your perception of “acceptable” conditions doesn’t coincide with some of the tenants’ ideas! Why not improve and work towards exceptional conditions, Assistant? How about a positive approach to improving the park’s standards?

          • We couldn’t agree with you more on this ! The very reason for the notices Ms. Suarez bemoans are to improve the appearance throughout the park.

            As was stated, park operated areas are clean and not in disrepair as one might be led to believe. If one did not actually drive through the park, they might think that it was full of trash and buildings crumbling by the way Ms. Suarez describes it. This is just not the case.

        • Come now! Park owners and/or management are responsible for the entire aesthetic of the park. They regulate what color a home can be painted, what and where can be landscaped, what improvements, if any, the homeowner can make. Instead of being honest by allowing owners to make repairs without permits, which is legal if they’re doing it themselves, they want to gouge poor people with unnecessary permits and inspection fees. They same way management can be petty about parking or pets, they can send and enforce notices to owners that have unsightly homes. So be honest; the management only cares about collecting the rent. They do the bare minimum, as you say, “acceptable” conditions, so that they can charge top dollar rent for bottom of the barrel conditions.

    • I agree with Mobile Home Resident, I think you sound like a terrible Manager and person, you probably see Mobile Home Resident’s as Trailer Trash, where exactly do you Manage or have Managed so we can drive through your community and then post our comments. With your opinion I would not be proud to say I was a Manager of any kind,

    • There are “tweekers” from high income, diligent parents, as well! I had the opportunity to drive through some of those trailer parks, a while back. I saw some well-taken care-of “homes” and some that weren’t. I would tend to believe that some people simply can’t afford certain repairs, or, to hire anyone to do it for them. One park in particular though, looked to be run by gang-bangers and drug-dealers…it looked like a mini prison!

  6. Ms. Suarez and others have brought up some serious allegations. As we all know though there are 2 sides to every story.

    High electric bills:
    The park has had weights and measures out due to residents’ complaints. In each and every case our meters and billing have been found to be in compliance. All of our meters are state certified. Residents are always encouraged to take advantage of CARE if they qualify along with other cost savings programs.

    Solar panels:
    These are not owned by the park and have nothing to do with residents’ electric bills. The land is leased to another company.

    Amenities:
    The pool has been closed for the winter like it is every year due to colder weather. A club house has never been advertised nor was it ever mentioned in any form as an included amenity. The playground was removed many years ago due to liability issues and again has never been advertised as being available.

    Notices:
    As home owners, it is the resident’s responsibility to maintain their homes. City code enforcement performs inspections, this is no different. There are certain standards that need to be adhered to. In no way are we singling out certain residents. Some of the violations are items that are considered health and safety issues. Missing skirting, broken or absent hand rails to name a few. We have been accused of not providing a safe environment which is simply not true. The very homes some of the complainants live in are in general disrepair and pose a risk to the inhabitants. For management, this is a loose – loose situation it seems. We are vilified for actually performing our job and trying to make homes safer for the residents and to improve the overall park appearance. If we do not complete annual inspections, and allow the homes to fall into disrepair we are seen as not managing the park properly. Copies of all the inspections with pictures were given to the city council for their own review. None were frivolous in nature according to our rules and regulations.

    Water:
    We are monitored by the county and state for compliance with regards to the water system. At no time have we failed to meet those standards. The city itself obtained water samples and it was shown that the water fell within state guidelines. When there has been an emergency in the past, yes residents were instructed to use pool water to flush their toilets as this is what was told to us by Mr. Southworth, the city inspector to do. The pool has never had stagnant water. We do have bottled water available should our water system experience a mechanical problem in the future. This was verify by LASD. We have repeatedly asked residents to check their swamp coolers for leaks and to address them quickly. Yet as we were doing our inspections we came across several homes who had rusted and leaky coolers.

    Towing:
    There are designated areas for guest parking. We have no parking signs posted giving us the legal right to tow vehicles though we rarely enforce it. We do not allow cars to park on the dirt areas because of the mess it creates. We have also had trouble with non-residents parking out in the back and dumping trash, drinking etc.

    Children playing:
    The only time children are asked not to play in the center area is when they are playing with a ball and either hit parked cars or have broken windows at the office building.

    City inspections:
    Yes we did receive 4 violations which were addressed immediately by park staff. All of the violations were minor and easily remedied.

    As always the park has been cooperative with the city. The park itself is well maintained and clean. We recently spend $10K on tree trimming alone. We have dedicated staff for cleaning as well as for landscaping.

    Sometimes people see demons when there really aren’t any. We do believe that Ms. Suarez is well meaning and we tender no ill will to her or any other resident that has a valid complaint.

    • I DO NOT AGREE WITH CLOSING THE LAUNDRY ROOM due to efforts in conserving water!……then it is stated people CAN USE water to hand wash??……..or go to laundry mat, or impose on family??…..Shame on you management! How dare you!….Hello, some are disabled, elderly, or families with special needs children that CAN NOT easily just pack up everyone and all laundry to go to laundry mat, Some Can NOT hand wash (the elderly and disabled) or maybe NO family near by….The laundry room Yes is NOT required, But it is on premises and has been made available for use prior and it is stated on space rental contract for use of residents!!…..Now, for Individual homes and their yards, IT is their SOLE responsibility, Not the Park’s.

      • The closing of the laundry room was only a temporary measure on management’s part. It is already scheduled to reopen within the week as was previously stated.

        In the past the laundry room had been closed on occasion due to vandalism. Since the machines are leased we are at the mercy of the company’s schedule to facilitate repairs.

  7. It sounds like people looking for a pay day, yes the park, is not being managed, but when you live in a mobile home the individual tenants are responsible for the appearance of there own home, and surrounding, on there space…..

  8. Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute, Speak up and judge fairly; defend the rights of the poor and needy.
    Proverbs 31:8-9

    Don’t take advantage of the poor just because you can; don’t take advantage of those who stand helpless in court. The Lord will argue their case for them.
    Proverbs 22:22

    So have no fear of them, for nothing is covered that will not be revealed, or hidden that will not be known.
    Matthew 10:26

    • “So have no fear of them, for nothing is covered that will not be revealed, or hidden that will not be known.
      Matthew 10:26”

      So when those inspectors showed up to inspect the park, the residents should have been none to surprised when they got orders to fix what was wrong with their property.

  9. Contact the GSMOL, they can help with a class action Law Suit, or at least direct you. and look on line at the California State Mobile Home Residency Laws. Report your problems, they over see Mobile Home Parks. They can be fined for every offense.Between filing complaints with the City and State, we shall have Victory over these turn key operations.

    • Thank you for that information! And thank you to everyone else that truly cares for us, and wishes the best for the living conditions of our families and our children! You are welcome to join and stand for our cause if you would like to! Thank you for going out of your way to help us!

      • Have the water there tested privately, if possible. I don’t think it costs that much? I had some dry-wall samples sent to a private lab several years ago, for asbestos testing and it was relatively inexpensive.Good luck.

        • AVEK has already tested the water at the urging of the city council and their independent reports also showed that the water falls with in state guidelines. The park’s well is state monitored, as are all wells that service the public.

      • Theresa
        October 14, 2014 at 9:06 pm
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        “As a result of the mayors request, multiple water samples were taken by local and county agencies and no issues were found”

        I find this statement a bit disturbing… I believe the tenants should have done their own water testing, as, well; sending samples to private laboratories. I don’t live in a trailer park, but, the water that is at my house (in Palmdale) frequently, looks cloudy. On occasion it has sediment in it…Sometimes, it smells strongly of bleach. I will NOT drink the faucet water. Something about the words “mayor”, “local”, and “county agencies” all said in one sentence makes me feel uncomfortable.

    • The Mobile Home Residency laws are actually the very set of rules that allow mobile home parks to conduct site inspections and to charge for clean-up and in very rare occasion evict over rules violations. The actual section numbers are provided for in the violations Ms. Suarez mentions.

  10. There are over 40 Children, around 10 Special Needs Children, there are also Disabled, Terminally ill, and Elderly low income defenseless and vulnerable precious human beings that live in Desert Palms Mobile Home Park.

    I believe there are about 6 parks in or near the A.V. Area that are under the same ownership, they are:

    Desert Palms Mobile Home Park, 2515 E. Ave.I, Lancaster CA 93535 (near 25th St. East)
    Terra Nova MHP, 1617 E. Avenue I, Lancaster, CA 93535 (near 15th St. East)
    El Rancho MHP, 44122 20th St. E. Lancaster, CA 93535 (near East Ave. J) [I heard El Rancho MHP was recently purchased for around $2-$3 million dollars, and also a Hotel in the A.V. area was also recently purchased by I believe the same owner]
    Rosamond MHP, 1258 W. Rosamond Blvd. Rosamond CA (near 15th St. West by Park Ave.)
    Additionally two other parks also, one is in the Mojave area, the other unknown, plus a hotel in the area. I also heard the owner owns several other parks in the Palm Springs area. So it appears the owner is a multi millionaire living pretty well I guess while a lot of tenants are living poor in drastic unbearable conditions. A question I ask is, are the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer?

  11. I know a few people who live in that park. I suggest to everyone who wants to know the truth to drive around and look at the homes and yards. Some of the yards are just trashy. Homes with peeling paint, messed up siding etc. Yes the grass is brown but right in the management office window there is a sign stating that due to drought conditions, water conservation efforts are in place.

  12. Who owns these parks?
    Sounds like developers trying to degrade the parks so they can bulldoze them.
    Let’s see, who else is know for that? Oh yeah Mr. Parris likes to condemn properties for his buddies who are developers.
    Good luck folks.

    • It is unfortunate Ms. Suarez has failed to communicate the truth. Contrary to her opinion the park is not in disrepair.

      Specifically, the water quality issue is not valid. Immediately after Ms. Suarez raised the same issues noted in the article the Mayor directed city staff to conduct a full investigation.

      As a result of the mayors request, multiple water samples were taken by local and county agencies and no issues were found; the Lancaster police department conducted a full investigation over a period of roughly 4 weeks and no issues were found; the Department of Weights and Measures found no issues and confirmed the meters are accurate and the billing amounts are reasonable while at the same time Ms.. Suarez failed to provide both the Lancaster PD investigating officer and the Department of Weights and Measures the documentation supporting the allegation of $300 electricity and $200 gas bills she mentions in her article.

      In addition, within the past 3 weeks, the City of Lancaster completed a thorough inspection of the park and issued a correction notice for 3 common area items. A bent light pole that was hit by a car, a block wall that was slightly damaged by yet another vehicle and a hole in the laundry room door caused by resident vandalism. The light pole and block wall were immediately repaired and a replacement door has been ordered.

      The pool was temporarily closed this summer due to vandalism by unsupervised children even after numerous requests were made for parental supervision and is now closed for the season as a customary practice and in an effort to conserve water; the laundry room has been fully operational until a decision was made to temporarily close during the high temperatures experienced in Lancaster over the past few weeks in an effort to conserve water. With the cooing weather patterns the laundry room is scheduled to reopen.

      The supposed “clubhouse” has not been available for anyone’s use other than storage for the past decade or longer. The children’s playground was removed due to ongoing nighttime vandalism as it was an attractive nuisance for unsupervised, alcohol consuming park teenagers and after numerous attempts to repair it was determined the playground could result in unintended harm to small children.

      Contrary to Ms. Suarez opinion, each of the homes and accompanying home sites in the park are strictly the responsibility of the homeowner and not the park owner or manager.

      It is true corrective notices have been issued however it is a standard operating practice and the notices were not issued to just a select few. Every resident has the same park rules and regulations and is under California State law regarding the upkeep of their home and home site. The notice of violations consisted of minor health and safety related repairs ranging from unsafe steps and hand rails to leaking swamp coolers and missing skirting, none of which are significant in cost to repair. In addition to some homes in need of exterior paint, the majority of notices call out the need to remove unsightly and at times unsafe items from the home site. Regardless of income level and contrary to Ms. Suarez opinion there is no excuse for not maintaining a clean and safe home site as the actual cost for essentially a “yard clean up and on going maintenance ” is negligible if any at all.

      Perhaps Ms. Suarez should direct her efforts to encouraging her neighbors to “pitch in” and provide assistance to cleaning up everyone’s home site and making some of the minor repairs that have been identified instead of trying to blame the park management for the residents choice of behavior.

      Lastly, and as many of us have been told; life is too short. If Ms. Suarez is so unhappy with her environment of less than a year perhaps she should sell her home to a qualified family truly in need of affordable housing in the City of Lancaster.

      • The repeated mentions of “special groups” led me to believe that this complaint may not be as straightforward as it sounded. Reading this, I see I wasn’t far off.

        Management is meant to maintain a certain standard, if they are not, then yes, they need to be in trouble. However, as a tenant, you signed an agreement as well; you may not like that they are calling people out on it aggressively now, but you signed the contract, and need to uphold your end as well. Tenants often like to complain about landlords slacking on their job, yet the tenant is unwilling to do anything to assist.

        Best move I ever made was leaving the apartments for my home. May be a little tighter on my wallet, but definitely worth it.

      • “the laundry room has been fully operational until a decision was made to temporarily close during the high temperatures experienced in Lancaster over the past few weeks in an effort to conserve water. With the cooing weather patterns the laundry room is scheduled to reopen.”

        I don’t get it. Please explain what you expect your residents to do during heat waves. Are they supposed to wear dirty clothes as part of your water conservation efforts? But when it cools down your water crisis is over? Maybe too expensive to pay the a/c in the laundry room or the equipment really is broken. Obviously it’s not all rainbows and sunshine over there. I hope the residents find someone to help them.

        • Laundry rooms are generally an amenity, not required. If they shut them down, residents still had choices to hand wash, impose upon family, or go to one of the many laundromats around town.

          • You are correct, it is not a required part of the property, however it becomes required if it is included as part of the rental contract. (No idea if it is or not in this case.)

          • @Searching regarding the laundry room. It is not in the rental or lease agreement. There were repeated acts of vandalism at the laundry room that required the closure due to repair issues. Ms. Suarez claimed the machines were broken which has some kernel of truth to it, They were broken by either residents or their guests. These machines are leased an not the property of the park.

      • “As a result of the mayors request, multiple water samples were taken by local and county agencies and no issues were found”

        I find this statement a bit disturbing… I believe the tenants should have done their own water testing, as, well; sending samples to private laboratories. I don’t live in a trailer park, but, the water that is at my house (in Palmdale) frequently, looks cloudy. On occasion it has sediment in it…Sometimes, it smells strongly of bleach. I will NOT drink the faucet water. Something about the words “mayor”, “local”, and “county agencies” all said in one sentence makes me feel uncomfortable.

        • All the water samples mentioned by SVM were taken by outside agencies by their own employees. Park management was not involved in these tests at all.

  13. I would encourage any and all of you that either live in this mobile home park community or ones like it in other parts of Lancaster to come to the council meeting tomorrow to tell your stories and to demand action against these living conditions.

  15. Pete and Tom, do you really think they would live there if they could afford to move? Moving involves security deposits, moving your stuff, switching your utilities over etc. If these folks are disabled, low income etc. they probably don’t have that kind of money, especially when they are being overcharged for space rent and utilities already…

    • You have good advise, so I assume you are going to let us rent your home, or find us living and help with the funds?

  17. I agree that the city needs to look into management at all these mobile home parks more. They seem to have too much power!

  18. I live in Golden Sands right down the street, it’s not much better. We have not had a onsite Manager here for over a year and a half. Management/Maintenance is here about five hours a day Monday – Friday. The city should monitor the Mobile Home Parks and Management better……

  19. True, this place has been a hole for years now. What I want to know is why the people there simply don’t move out?

  20. I wonder if its the same owners for the Rosamond Mobile Home Park? You have much of the same conditions there.

    • Carol that is what I was thinking as I was reading this article. I don’t live there but I remember reading about it in the Rosamond News regarding poor sanitary conditions, sewage issues, lack of water, etc. I’m praying that the residents can get some help from the community leaders! People shouldn’t have to live in these conditions!

    • Carol if you are talking about the mobil home park on 15th st east I believe (in back of thenlow income apartments) then yes they are the same owners. I lived in both parks.