Seniors anxious as diocese sells park to cover legal expenses

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Uncertainty, fear and anger prevailed Thursday as the 1,000 senior residents of the Lakeview Village Mobile Home Park in Citrus Heights learned that the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sacramento will sell the park to an investment group for more than $45 million.

“Do they plan to help us or hurt us?” asked resident Rosalie Ingle.

The buyers and diocese assured residents the park will not be converted to another use and they will not be forced out by rent hikes.

But the Citrus Heights City Council pressed ahead Thursday night with a hearing, attended by scores of park residents, at which it was decided to create a task force on rent control for mobile home parks and to consider a temporary rent hike moratorium.

Lakeview Village’s sale is intended to help the diocese cover costs of a legal settlement involving numerous claims of sexual abuse by priests.

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What the heck is a diocese runing a Mobile Home Park for anyways?
 
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ByzCath:
What the heck is a diocese runing a Mobile Home Park for anyways?
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That was my thought too. But perhaps it was donated? Some people leave their estates to the Church.

If so, the diocese was probably wondering why they were running a mobile home park too! 🙂
 
The Lawyers always win. The bishops strategy of delay,obstruction, and obfuscation costs money. The big one is coming up ,Los Angeles has been in court almost 3 years fighting.Those Beverly Hills lawyers of the Cardinal must be making millions.
 
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ByzCath:
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Parishes and Dioceses sometimes own and manage land not directly related to Church matters, especially in urban areas where land is scarce and expensive, as a means to have said land available for future Church use. I can’t document this, but I heard that the Archdiocese of Chicago owned some golf courses at one time with the eventual intention of using the open land for Catholic cemeteries. As the land was not immediately needed for cemetery use, the Archdiocese reportedly continued to operate the land as golf courses for some time so that the land might not sit idle.
 
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Parishes and Dioceses sometimes own and manage land not directly related to Church matters, especially in urban areas where land is scarce and expensive, as a means to have said land available for future Church use. I can’t document this, but I heard that the Archdiocese of Chicago owned some golf courses at one time with the eventual intention of using the open land for Catholic cemeteries. As the land was not immediately needed for cemetery use, the Archdiocese reportedly continued to operate the land as golf courses for some time so that the land might not sit idle.
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I’m sure they also own property in order to make money to operate the diocese in general (priest and staff salaries, etc.).
 
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I’m sure they also own property in order to make money to operate the diocese in general (priest and staff salaries, etc.).
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Naturally they use the money generated to pay parish or diocesan operating expenses. They also use it for charitable works. To leave the land unproductive would be poor stewardship of resources.
 
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