‘It’s absolute desperation:’ Mobile park residents say rent increases threaten one of Silicon Valley’s last affordable housing options
“When Enid and Dwight Fox moved from Ohio to the Plaza Del Rey mobile home park in Sunnyvale in 1988, the family-owned community was known as “the park with a heart,” a place where they could afford to buy a home of their own to spend the rest of their lives. That piece of the California dream started to become a nightmare about five years ago, Enid said, when the roughly 95-acre park with 812 homes was purchased by the private equity Carlyle Group.”