Prancing across the living room last week, Emely De La Garza took one look at her father disassembling a television and her mother frantically packing boxes and declared with the sweeping authority only a 5-year-old can possess: “This is a mess!”
A mess indeed. Her parents, Erick and Marta De La Garza, stayed up the entire night packing in preparation for a moving company to transport their home from Country Road Park, a trailer park in northwest Houston, to a new mobile home community in Spring.
The De La Garzas — Erick, Marta, Emely and her older sister, Yocelin — are one of 53 low-income families living in the community forced to relocate by next Tuesday after their landlord sold Country Road Park last year…