Tenants at the Congress Mobile Home Park have won a temporary restraining order against Congress Corner, LLC to postpone their evictions.
to postpone their evictions, a significant win for those residents at the South Austin property who have not yet secured new housing.and his entityinformed tenants – some of whom had been living at the park for decades – that their leases were not being renewed; they had 60 days to move out.
The vast majority of residents who were living at Congress Mobile Home Park at the start of 2022 have already moved out – some within their South Austin neighborhood, others out of Travis County entirely. But a handful of families remain in the park, struggling to navigate the myriad challenges of the housing market and particularly the mobile home end of that market."The stakes are high," Noelia Mann, a tenant organizer withA number of the homes are manufactured and cannot be moved.
"It's so wrong," Mann said,"not only the negligence and lack of concern, but in fact the desire to see those people pushed out. I think it represents the kind of Austin that some people want to see, which I think is a gentrified Austin, which is a white Austin, a wealthy Austin – and that is at the direct expense of people's lives, a roof over people's heads and food on the table.
Velardie said that since moving, she and her sister have stopped going out to eat and try to keep their lights off at all hours to save money on their electricity bill. In addition to the higher utility costs, their rent has increased by $1,000 per month at their new apartment. Velardie said that she hopes the lawsuit sends a message to other potential investors.
"Now when I go to the park, I find myself sighing a lot," Velardie said."I hate to see how my neighborhood was and what it became, and how basically ugly it got in the sense that Reza Paydar didn't make this transition a lot better ... This is the new reality. You leave with this frustration that we were treated this way, like disposable people."
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