Bowling Green Mobile Homes United
The Hanks Family and the City of Bowling Green
On August 1, the Bowling Green City Commission unanimously approved a zoning change that will allow the Hanks family to displace 30+ families from the Kentucky Gardens Mobile Home Park in order to build luxury apartments and eateries where their homes currently stand. Despite owning their homes, families in the park must forcilbly forefit them because they do not own the land their homes stand on. Most of the homes cannot be moved, which means the Hanks family can legally proceed to evict residents and tear down the homes without compensating the families that own them. While the Hanks family has offered to help families search for new housing, they have not offered any financial compensation for the homes they are taking away from residents.
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We demand financial compensation from the Hanks family for all families residing in the Kentucky Gardens Mobile Home Park. These families deserve compensation not only for the value of the homes they’ve bought, maintained, improved upon, and lived in for years, but also for the inconceivable inconvenience and hardship they will face by being forced to move.
This injustice should never be allowed to happen. Developers have a moral obligation and should have a legal obligation to compensate families for the homes they’re taking when the home is immovable, and the City Commission should not be legally obligated to approve a zoning change, especially without considering the impacts of their decision on constituents' lives.
We demand financial compensation from the Hanks family, and changes in city policy to ensure unjust displacement doesn’t continue in Bowling Green!