As many as 50 families were left homeless after city officials closed three mobile home parks.
Most of the residents of El Descanso Mobile Home Park and two others owned by the same woman were given vouchers to pay for stays in hotels, said Eliseo Garza, director of the city's Department of Neighborhood Resources.
A dozen motels and apartments in the South Park Avenue area could serve as permanent housing after the vouchers expire at the end of the month, Garza said.
City inspectors began looking into the condition of the three parks earlier this year after a 17-year-old boy was shocked while trying to plug a hair dryer into the electrical hook-up outside his mobile home.
"What we discovered was a series of real serious code violations," Garza said. "We had faulty wiring in the units. We had units that had bad roofs that were leaking water onto wiring. We had several units that had broken sewer lines. We had stopped-up sinks, stopped-up toilets. We had a running water faucet that couldn't be shut off."
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