360-Space Mobile Home Park Garners Supervisors' Backing
A proposed low-income mobile home park is a step closer to reality after the Riverside County Board of Supervisors Okayed a funding agreement with Desert Empire Homes to construct the first phase. The deal calls for the county’s Redevelopment Agency to pony up just over half the $9,714,528 cost of completing the first phase, which consists of 180 homes and a community center.
Desert Empire Homes wants to build approximately 360 mobile homes, broken into two phases, in
the 50-acre park.
The project is located south of 66th Avenue, west of Polk Street.
“Mountain View Estates” will help to ease a critical low-income housing shortage in the
Eastern Coachella Valley, and at least 90 park spaces will be reserved for very low-income
households whose incomes do not exceed 50 percent of the area median income.
Phase One completion is expected by the end of next year; the construction timeline for Phase
Two is not known at this time.
Each mobile home space lot will comprise a minimum of 3,400 square feet and will include
uniform fencing, a storage shed, and two awnings. The owner of the park is to provide tutoring and
mentoring activities to the children of the community. Also required of the owner: access to
computers and printers in a computer lab linked to fiber optics and high speed internet.
The proposed new park is only a couple of miles away from the sub-standard Desert Mobile Home
Park (“Duroville”), which might be forced to close by a judge—either gradually or abruptly—at some
point in the not-too-distant future.