Owners Of Another Riverside County Mobile Home Park Forced To Relinquish Control Over Expensive Code Violations, Health & Safety Issues

In Riverside County, California, The Desert Sun reports:

• The conditions at a Thermal mobile home park are so bad they threaten the health and safety of the 90 or so residents there, a Riverside County Superior Court judge declared Wednesday.



• Accordingly, owners of the Hernandez mobile home park, [...] must now hand control of the property to a court-appointed receiver who is expected to start making arrangements for repairs within 30 days.

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• It's a victory in the residents' lawsuit against the Hernandez park owners. Residents filed suit in 2010, claiming they endured more than a month without electricity during the sweltering summer heat. [...] The outages intermittently returned this past summer to the park, which lacks the proper Riverside County permits. Park residents, many of them farmworkers, also deal with sewage spills and an on-site well that has tested positive for potentially harmful bacteria.



• Scores of other east valley mobile home parks lack permits and have similar hazards. Wednesday's action makes the neglected Hernandez park the latest where conditions grew so bad, compiling expensive code violations, that the owners were forced to relinquish control.

For more, see Judge orders owner to give up Hernandez mobile home park over health violations.