Battle over mobile-home parks in California
Developers eyeing the prime land on which these parks are built but that will mean displacing the poor residents
New York
THE free market wouldn't plop down a trailer park just a few kilometres from downtown San Jose. At least not today, in a sharply spiking housing market that has made the metropolitan area one of the most expensive in the US. But that's where you'll find Winchester Ranch and its 111 mobile-home lots, just down the street from an upscale shopping mall, a newly created development zone, and a major highway interchange.
"The best use for that land is probably apartments," said Gary Hansen, a senior vice president at Cushman Wakefield, the commercial real estate firm with offices just across Winchester Boulevard from the mobile homes. You don't need to be a broker to reach Mr Hansen's conclusion: "It's a premier location."
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