Trailer park residents in Mississauga, Ont. say development plans are unfair
MISSISSAUGA, Ont. — A plan to tear down a small mobile home park for a new housing development in Mississauga, Ont., has the small community of over 200 homes wondering where they’ll have to move and has seniors wondering how they’ll be able to afford a new house on their fixed income.
The Peel regional municipality voted last week to dismantle the mobile home park and replace it with a new housing development of town homes and apartment buildings, a move that will quadruple the area’s density.
Peel region says residents of Twin Pines Mobile Home Park will each get $31,000 in compensation for their land, with an option to rent or buy at the new housing development that will replace the park.
Marlyn Addai, president of the park’s board of directors, says the compensation isn’t enough for many of the people who live in the park, many of whom are still paying off mortgages on their mobile homes and live on a fixed income.