ORANGEVALE (CA)
Sacramento Bee
By David Richie -- Bee Staff Writer
Published 2:15 am PDT Sunday, September 4, 2005
The most frail residents of Lakeview Village Mobile Home Park may have the most at stake Tuesday when Citrus Heights officials consider a $2.6 million loan package to help residents purchase their park.
The City Council hurriedly scheduled a meeting on the financial aid so that, if the package is approved, residents can meet deadlines for submitting a bid to buy the park. Lakeview Village, where the median age is 81, is owned by the Catholic Diocese of Sacramento.
Many of Lakeview's nearly 1,000 seniors worry about being displaced if the park is sold to another buyer, but some residents have seen their finances and future jeopardized by mere talk of a sale. ...
Last month, when the diocese notified residents that it would sell the park to cover a $35 million legal settlement over sexual abuse claims, residents who had their homes on the market were hit hardest.
Park residents attempting to sell their mobile homes were caught in what Wayne Herring described as limbo.