![]() ![]() When I first moved to San Diego in 1977, my husband and I tried to move to De Anza Cove. (The whole place wobbles when your washing machine is on it’s spin cycle) They are the older models that have aluminum sides and walls that are very thin and frankly looked awful, even when brand new. A significant number of the homes there were what I call ‘wobbly boxes’. Thank you for this article and the photographs! You showed some of the more unusual structures that are there. For all I know your visit and this articles’ writing was done this year, 2021, or several years back. One thing I wish you would add to all articles is the date of the visit and publication date. From what I read, the city of San Diego announced that it will be paying the residents a sum of around $22 million for the hell they put the residents through. Pieces of these people's lives still sits in almost every home like a shattered time capsule. It looks like people were forced by gun-point to move out looking at how the homes are in shambles.īooks, clothing, personal memorabilia is thrown about everywhere. But sometime around 2015, all residents were given between a week to a month to move out, leaving everyone in a scramble. From what I was told, the residents sued the city, which helped delay their move-out day. This is in part because business deals fell through on the hotel, but where did the money go instead? The city claims it doesn't know.įast-forward to present day. But making shady things even shadier, when the time came, the money was all gone. Fortunately for the residents, they were protected under the Mobile Home Residency Law which meant that the city would have to help relocate them when the time came. This caused a huge outrage amongst the people. The obvious outcome of hike was that the property management would have to quadruple the tenant's rent overnight. This plan would guarantee the city to make roughly $50 million dollars over the next 20 years, helping to save up the necessary funds to build the hotel. Behind the scenes, the city was plotting how to turn the land into a fancy, beach-front hotel and this fee hike would help pay for it. They would now be taking 20% of the mobile home's profits. Literally the day that the Kapiloff Bill was passed, the city quadrupled their take away from the mobile home management. Maintaining their corruption, the city continued to defy the ordinances and instead took it to the residents, blaming them for building permanent structures on pubic land. This was clearly not the residences fault and guarantee they had no clue this was intended as public land. Therefore, the bill gave the city 20 years to save up the money and transition the residences to other places. This bill essentially said that the mobile home parks were never supposed to be there and must be removed, but it is also acknowledged that most of the residents living there are now in their elder years. In 1982 a bill was passed to specifically target this issue called the Kapiloff Bill. In 1980, the State Lands Commission did a survey of the land and were shocked to find that it wasn't being used for what it was intended for. Eventually that became part of the problem though. Many of the owners lived for 30-40 years here and into their ripe years. With that said, the park had a lovely 80 year run. By turning the land over to private developers, the city would get kicked back a percentage. The story actually begins in the 1930's when the state of California gave this land to the City of San Diego “to be held in trust for the use of all citizens of the state.” Unfortunately, the city defied the trust and instead used it for private, commercial use by creating this 680-unit trailer park instead. The answer is lengthy, complicated and of course, involves the greed and corruption of our city. One would probably wonder how a run-down mobile home park like this even lasted this long in an area that is highly sought after as prime real estate. It put up a grand fight, but the very slow death is most likely nearing the end. As of this writing, this abandoned mobile home park could be destroyed at any moment. ![]()
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