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Residents ask Indio commission to probe park maintenance, rent hikes; commission seeks staff follow-up
Summary
Residents from a mobile home park in Indio told the Mobile Home Fair Practice Commission that broken amenities, unsafe lighting, eroded roadways and what they called arbitrary rent increases are harming seniors and low-income residents; the commission voted to ask staff to return with a formal report and options on the next agenda.
Residents of a mobile home park in Indio told the Mobile Home Fair Practice Commission that long-running maintenance failures, safety hazards and recent rent increases are harming seniors and other low-income residents, and they asked the commission to investigate.
At a public presentation, a resident (identified in the transcript as "Resident") said the pool has been out of service for about three months, hot tubs for six months and that bathroom facilities near the pool were padlocked for nearly a year, leaving seniors without nearby restrooms. "They locked both facilities up, padlocked them up, and there was no bathroom facilities available for almost maybe a year," the resident said.
The presenter also described eroded roadways and holes left after utility work installing new gas meters and underground lines,…
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