Next Oasis Mobile Home Park Community Update Meeting
88-175 74th Avenue, Oasis, CA 92274
Event Details
Riverside County will hold the next Oasis Mobile Home Park community update meeting at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, February 1 at Oasis Elementary School, located at located at 88-175 74th Avenue, Oasis, CA 92274.
The meeting will provide information on resources and an opportunity for community members to ask questions directly to county departments and other agencies. The meeting will be conducted in Spanish.
The meeting will cover the latest developments to assist residents of Oasis Mobile Home Park amid the ongoing water crisis as well as the effort to help families move into safer and better living conditions.
At the close of last year, Riverside County was awarded a grant of state funding to continue its efforts, in partnership with TODEC Legal Center, to provide bottled water at Oasis Mobile Home Park. The grant from the State Water Resources Control Board will fund the Oasis Mobile Home Park Bottled Water Program for all of 2023. The state funding is a total of $883,930 covering October 2022 to December 31, 2023.
The county is also expecting to report on the progress on an agreement being worked on between the county, the Torres-Martinez Desert Cahuilla Indians and the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs regarding the future of Oasis Mobile Home Park. The goal of the agreement is to close the park after families relocate into affordable housing opportunities and mobile home parks with infrastructure. The agreement would provide tools for enforcement to prevent the park from allowing new tenants to move into vacated spaces.
The county’s housing division has now assisted with relocating 71 families from Oasis Mobile Home Park, which is up from 49 families reported in November 2022. The county is managing a $30 million state grant, secured in the state budget by Assembly member Eduardo Garcia, to develop affordable housing for relocation opportunities. To date, $7 million from this grant has been allocated for Phase 1 of the future Oasis Villas apartments in Oasis and $279,000 has been dedicated to develop 12 mobile homes at the Maria y Jose Mobile Home Park in Oasis.
Supervisor V. Manuel Perez requested that these monthly community update meetings be held to keep efforts moving and update residents of Oasis Mobile Home Park on progress and housing options for relocation.
