Join us this Saturday 8/22✊🏼
Tenants of Park Monterey mobile home park in Rosemead are facing dehumanizing living conditions and potential homelessness at the hands of landlord Gerard Ngo—who is the patriarch of a company that owns Hawaii Supermarket.
In an effort to expand his real estate portfolio, Ngo is neglecting the property and forcing out low-income families, including seniors and retirees who rely entirely on fixed Social Security incomes.
Management is using legal loopholes to issue evictions to several families without just cause, while intentionally letting the property fall into severe disrepair.
Park Monterey is routinely exposed to a dangerously faulty electric grid, sewage once running down half the neighborhood, units flooding during rainy days, cockroach infestations and more!
These actions may violate state laws and local Rosemead ordinances, which require formal city notification before initiating a mobile home park closure. Ngo’s practices directly threaten Rosemead’s affordable housing stock and endanger its most vulnerable residents.
Because of the neighborhood’s desperate situation, we’re calling on the public to join us in picketing at Hawaii Supermarket and to also join our boycott in order to protest Gerard Ngo subjecting tenants, children and elderly alike, to grotesque negligence and slumlord abuse.
To stay in touch with Park Monterey families’ struggle for their livelihood, sign up to our mailing list to keep up to date with future actions!
https://actionnetwork.org/forms/rtu/
#Rosemead
More Information
7433 Garvey Ave, located near the McDonald’s on Garvey in Rosemead. Page on MHBO.
Ngo’s companies also own adjacent lots, and is developing the new apartments on Prospect and Garvey, across from McDonald’s.
Big Island Property LLC owns Park Monterey. This is documented in this 2009 application to the City of Rosemead to convert part of the MHP to parking. So they understand the legal process, and did a Closure Impact Report in the past.
From CorporationWiki:
The mobile home park, unlike the new development, has been neglected and has experienced fires, destruction of homes, and other habitability problems.
Have you told the City of Rosemead, LA County, or State of California?
Yes.
- City of Rosemead – RTU, residents of Park Monterey, and residents of nearby Paradise Trailer Park, have been to city council meetings to raise issues, and went as a large group to a “coffee and chat” meeting to ask for help. We have been educating them for months using these public and official channels.
- Los Angeles County – a residents facing eviction requested that the court recognize that Big Island Property, LLC, a Ngo company, wishes to shut down the park, and force them to enter the process of “conversion”. Converting a mobile home park to another use, like building condos or apartments, requires that the owner follow a process to help people relocate.
- State of California – people have complained to the state’s Housing and Community Development (HCD) department. HCD previously gave a notice to suspend the landlord’s permit to operate the trailer park which would have prevented them from charging rent to residents. The reason for suspension was the landlord’s failure to repair the dangerously faulty electric grid. In the past, a utility pole lit on fire and collapse which left the neighborhood without adequate power for a year or two while 4 other trailer homes lit on fire on a separate occasion. However, HCD paused the suspension on the grounds that their latest inspection didn’t result in any “visible defects” to the inspector.