Nearly a year ago, residents of one of Cary’s last mobile home parks sounded the alarm on what might happen to them if the owner sold the property.
Most of the over 200 people in the Chatham Estates Mobile Home Park are immigrants, working class, and seniors who have made the tight-knit community their home for generations.
Rent on the 130 mobile homes behind Chatham Square at SE Maynard Road and East Chatham Street costs $400 a month.
While the park hasn’t been sold yet, residents believe it’s inevitable. Over 100 residents and their advocates packed a Cary Town Council meeting Thursday night to support a plan they say could help.
‘Something to call our own’
A 10-year mobile home park resident, Maggie Regules, spoke in Spanish through an interpreter, reminding leaders that the residents are all contributing to the town’s growth and success.
She is a health care worker at a local organization supporting the Latino community. She’s also the mother of two sons, one a student at Cary High, the other a local restaurant employee.