Meet The Press
October 31, 2020
About the Writer
Kate De La Torre, Broadcast Editor, Illustrator
Kate De La Torre is the Broadcast Editor and one of two illustrators for the Wolfpack Times. The school year of 2020-2021 marks her second and last year...
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![As the City of Bell aims to sell two major mobile home parks and displace hundreds of families, the mobile home residents fight back with organization, demonstration, meeting with council members, and even going as far as to create their own certified non-profit organization, known as the New Dawn of Bell Home Owner Association, in hopes that they could purchase the property themselves. As new developments begin to pop up, for example, Border X Brewery and Tesla charging stations which are located on Pine and Gage in the City of Bell, residents should begin to worry that their low-income and predominantly Hispanic neighborhood may soon be taken over by a new crowd. “...Los que vivimos aquí en las mobile homes...nos están discriminado, porque? Porque somos familias de bajo recursos. Aquí la mayoría somos hispanos, por eso, yo creo, [Those who live here in the mobile homes… they are discriminating us, why? Because we are low-income families. The majority of residents here are Hispanic, thats why,] said Merli Albizurez, Vice President of the New Dawn of Bell Home Owner Association. (Alejandra A. Martinez)](https://wolfpacktimes.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/bell-mobile-home-park-photo.jpg)
