A north Fresno mobile home park will have new ownership that will keep tenants from being evicted.
Thursday, the Fresno City Council awarded $3.5 million in state funding to Visalia developer Self-Help Enterprises to purchase La Hacienda Mobile Estates to provide affordable housing units to the community.
The backstory: Harmony Communities acquired the mobile home park in May 2022 for $1.7 million and quickly started to send eviction notices out to residents.
- Harmony planned to sell the land to developers looking to make it a commercial space, but earlier this year a Fresno County judge ruled that Harmony cannot shut down the mobile home park without receiving approval from the city.
The big picture: Once Self-Help Enterprises purchases the park, the developer will provide 26 units of affordable housing to extremely-low income households.
- La Hacienda has 58 units in total and will restrict the units to low-income households that earn no more than 80 percent of the area median income.
- Any existing tenants who earn over 80 percent of the area median income will be allowed to remain at the park so they are not displaced.
Zoom out: Self-Help Enterprises has a history in working to provide affordable housing for low-income families since 1965 throughout the Central Valley.
What they’re saying: “As you know, we’ve had a long-time challenge with the property, the mobile home park that is titled La Hacienda,” said Mayor Jerry Dyer. “And this provides a long-term solution with Self Help Enterprises purchasing the property thanks to a subsidy that we’re able to provide of $3.5 million towards this project. And it is going to allow the residents at La Hacienda to have affordable housing at that location that is guaranteed.”
