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At A Property We Investigated, Concerns About Getting Sick
Trailer Grove trailer park in Pomona. (Aaron Mendelson/LAist) (Aaron Mendelson/LAist)
The Pomona trailer park, California Trailer Grove, is owned and managed by entities connected to landlord Mike Nijjar and his company PAMA Management. It was the site of a typhus outbreak in 2015 -- the first that L.A. County had seen in years.
And it was one of several properties I reported on for Deceit, Disrepair and Death Inside a Southern California Rental Empire.
I called resident Kara Gomez to see how life was at the trailer park now that the coronavirus outbreak has taken hold in Southern California. She told me:
"A lot of people don't have running water in their homes to even wash their hands."
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