News from: Riverside County Supervisor V. Manuel Perez

Riverside County has successfully moved over 100 families out of Oasis Mobile Home Park and into safer and better housing and living conditions.

The county achieved this milestone with the move-in of a dozen families to the Maria y Jose Mobile Home Park in Oasis, a new permitted mobile home park that has water, electricity and sewer utilities. The mobile home park was built with county help and investment by the developer, Jesus Montanez. It is the first Polanco park to be built in over a decade.

With limited affordable housing in the area, the newly built park is an example of how the county is working with mobile home park owners to improve the quality of housing and move families sooner into homes with proper infrastructure. There are more mobile home parks that the county, with the state’s financial assistance, is working to permit and improve to provide more housing.

“I’m happy to say that we’ve been able to make it happen, to transition families out of areas that are really struggling,” said Supervisor V. Manuel Perez. “This is a humanitarian concern. I appreciate the good work of the county and all of our partners. This is an ongoing process, and there are many more families, and we are going to work hard so we can continuously move forward and ensure families have a safe place to live.”

In addition to the 12 families at Maria y Jose Mobile Home Park, 72 families have found new homes at Mountain View Estates, and another 18 have become homeowners, purchasing homes in places such as Thermal, North Shore, Thousand Palms, Desert Hot Springs and Victorville.

Riverside County is funding these relocation assistance efforts utilizing a $30 million grant of state funding secured by former State Assemblymember Eduardo Garcia.

Alongside the housing relocation efforts, Riverside County has partnered with the state and with TODEC Legal Center, which delivers bottled water to Oasis Mobile Home Park and distributes it to the community on a weekly basis. The bottled water provides a supply of safe and clean water for the residents. The emergency bottled water program is funded by the State Water Resources Control Board, and has been continuously provided to the community since July 2022.

Riverside County will need more funding, resources and policy action from the federal government to continue the work of relocating families out of Oasis Mobile Home Park.
“We are grateful for the funding from the state,” adds Supervisor Perez. “But the county cannot do this alone. The federal government needs to play a stronger role.”

Supervisor V. Manuel Perez represents the Fourth Supervisorial District on the Riverside County Board of Supervisors. The largest district in the county by geography, the 4th District covers eastern Riverside County, from Whitewater, stretching across the entire Coachella Valley south to the Salton Sea, up Highway 74 to Idyllwild and the mountain communities, and heading east of the Coachella Valley to Blythe and the Colorado River.

Supervisor Perez’s office hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.