Residents of a Manassas mobile-home park who had been threatened with eviction will very likely be able to stay in their homes after the city agreed to allow a local nonprofit agency to buy the property. The Manassas City Council voted unanimously Monday night to enable Catholics for Housing, a Northern Virginia nonprofit group, to purchase the East End mobile-home park for $1.4 million. “We are doing this for the express purpose of sustaining these homes for the residents of East End,” said Catholics for Housing Executive Director Karen DeVito. “We’re going to make this happen, and it’s going to work.”An empty trailer sits in the East End Mobile Home Park in Manassas. The cost of living is too high,” Selfo Sosa, a construction worker who has lived at East End since 2012, said last spring.

Source: Washington Post October 17, 2017 16:44 UTC