It's hard to live here.

You may think the weather is crazy.

The weather is going crazy.

We don't have many options to move right now.

Housing and where we live and the changing climate will make it worse.

It's like you're in a metal box.

In Palm Springs, Palm Desert, the electric grid is better, the water is safe.

They have better resources over there.

Our residents are working for agricultural companies that are multimillion-dollar companies, five-star hotels, country clubs, and yet they're taking home the absolute bare minimum wages.

It's a 100% a structural problem.

We've been ignored because the majority of us are undocumented.

In these areas, you can't rely on the electricity.

The arsenic, the electricity, the garbage - those are the three problems that most trailer parks have.

These are trailers that are 10, 20 years old.

If you don't have good air conditioning, you feel like you're in hell.

It feels awful.

It doesn't have any insulation left.

When it's hot, all the heat gets in.

There are cracks.

The cold air doesn't stay inside.

There are trailers even worse than this one.

So it's hard right now.

When it's hot out she goes outdoors to cook so it won't get so hot inside.

I thought "El Norte" (the U.S.) was beautiful.

I didn't think El Norte was ugly.

I think my little village is better than here.

When we met, I was 14 and he was 11.

Pedro, bring the dishes to the table, please.

When I was 22 he "stole" me, as they say in Mexico, and I went to be with him.

Come on.

I used to say, "I'm going to go [to the U.S.], build myself a house and then come back to look for a girl."

I was 9 years old when I first imagined this.

It was my dream.

Go ahead, pull up your chair.

My story in the U.S. began in 2006.

I get depressed sometimes with the situation, because I can't provide a safe home for my children.

This is what I have, and it's all I can do for them right now.

If you're living in a mobile home, most likely you are at the most vulnerable in housing and in experiencing crazy temperatures.

2 p.m. in August in Indian Wells, you're literally living a very different life than at 2 p.m., also in August, in Thermal, California.

It is hot.

It feels suffocating.

You just drive through Avenue 66 and you see these mobile home parks here, a mobile home park here.

And then you see this big sign that says "Thermal Beach Club public hearing."

Thermal Beach Club is a project that was introduced August, September of 2019.

It would have luxury homes, vacation homes and a lagoon with surfing technology that you can have up to 7-foot waves.

Why are we OK with this multibillion-dollar vacation home development in our community?

It's just going to contribute to the perpetuation of income inequality in the area.

It's laughable.

It's a slap in the face for residents.

These are information packets, everything you may need, in Spanish.

Riverside County is essentially a really poor county overall.

Our unincorporated areas just don't have the revenue streams we need to put the infrastructure in.

So we don't have a choice.

We have to partner with private-sector developments to get more infrastructure.

You can't expect Thermal Beach Club to solve the problems of the legacy of underinvestment and poverty in the eastern Coachella Valley.

This is where Thermal Beach Club is going to be.

This is the Thermal racetrack and this is where Oasis Mobile Home Park is.

The racetrack, it had a very similar beginning to Thermal Beach Club.

It's right there.

You hear the sounds of the racetracks.

Wealthy folks use it as a playground for the rich.

And Thermal Beach Club would not be any different from that.

The racetrack wasn't there before.

I used to harvest cilantro there.

I have worked in the fields for most of my time in the U.S.

I'd say agriculture is the main thing in this valley.

The people who suffer most from the heat are the farmworkers.

11 a.m. to noon, when we're picking chiles, as soon as you kneel down, you get right back up because [the ground] burns.

It's as if you touched a stove.

Sometimes the day is totally cloudy, but you sweat a lot and can't breathe.

You feel like you're almost suffocating.

Everyone in California is going to experience extreme climate effects.

It's hard to think about how they'll cope with a change as severe as what we expect.

Temperatures of 130:F are not something we think of for the weather.

It's a setting for your oven, right?

It's shocking.

Droughts are going to become more extreme.

We know that a lot of the water supplies in the Coachella Valley have naturally occurring arsenic in them, which is a poisonous compound for humans to ingest.

Because water supplies are going to be so stressed, these problems could be exacerbated by climate change.

They said it was going to be fixed.

But it started getting worse.

When you turn on the faucet, something like sand comes out.

The water isn't clear.

It comes out yellow or sometimes chocolatey brown.

And we have to bathe with that water.

The people in the rental office didn't tell us it could cause us illnesses.

I don't know how many years we've been consuming this polluted water.

They started to give us water because the EPA ordered it.

One gallon of water per person per day.

They weren't even doing it right at the beginning.

Then, three days later, they raised the rent $100.

They're consuming arsenic on top of the other chronic illnesses from environmental hazards.

The owner has been negligent and noncompliant with that order.

They need to provide the water without raising rent to the residents.

OK, we're going to start.

Since the last time we had a meeting, not much has changed.

We're exploring other options.

Maybe I'm just desperate, but it seems to be going really slowly.

The people from the county haven't proposed anything or given us answers.

The only relief they told us about is that maybe some of us could qualify for Mountain View.

Can you hear me?

They told me they're not going to give me a trailer.

You lose hope because I think we're going to be left out again.

Mountain View hasn't been the solution they said it would be.

There are families that didn't qualify, the process has been very slow.

The county created this housing problem by not providing enough housing for our residents.

At some point in the '80s or '90s, residents started developing on their own new forms of housing that were affordable.

And that took the form mostly of mobile home parks.

The housing was being developed but in a way that was not safe for residents.

The county of Riverside became aware of the problems and in the late 1990s started to shut them down.

And this is during a time when there was no alternative housing options for families.

It was really pushing them into even worse circumstances.

The fact that a lot of those residents have ended up in tribal land has provided a convenient escape hatch for county representatives who say, 'Well, it's in tribal land, what can we really do?'

There's a lot of discrimination in the East Valley.

The onion?

Politicians don't pay us much attention.

Do we have another container?

North Shore, Thermal and Salton City, I'd say we are forgotten.

It did come by design.

Elected officials are elected to prioritize budgets on what gets built and what doesn't get built.

Local government are struggling to find resources and meet the demand of our ever-growing affordable housing crisis.

Tie him up here.

Let's go because your break is going to end.

Charlie misbehaved!

Did he misbehave?

Oh well.

He is hyperactive and has moderate autism.

<b>YouTube?

OK. Now, pay attention.</b> Sometimes we don't understand him, and he gets annoyed and frustrated quickly.

We just keep an eye on him so he doesn't hurt himself.

When he was younger we could get a babysitter for him.

Now nobody wants to take care of him.

Cinthia is supposedly normal, but she has learning difficulties.

So Maria has to stay with them almost 24 hours a day.

This is our traditional clothing, the traditional dress of indigenous people from Michoácan.

Some people use a machine, but they fall off more quickly.

She doesn't charge much considering how long it takes her to make them.

You missed something here.

No, this one.

OK, finish writing it.

This was our room, but we don't use it anymore because it's the most damaged part of the house.

Now it's just Maria's workspace.

Do you need me to bring it over now or tomorrow?

No, ma'am.

Come now, or if not, there is no trailer.

OK, tell her I'm on my way.

<b>But tell her there is a part that I didn't</b> <b>understand and I didn't fill it in.

</b> <b>The fear that they'll turn me down at the end of the day</b> <b>makes me feel a bit desperate and anxious.

</b> <b>This is our second time applying.</b> <b>You are under pressure.</b> <b>Hi, good afternoon.

</b> <b>Hi!</b> <b>They just approved me for a new trailer.

</b> <b>I'm so happy!</b> <b>This is No.

2 ... 25.

</b> <b>This place won't fit all the people who live in Oasis.</b> <b>There are a lot of people living there.</b> <b>228.

It's this one.

The fourth trailer.</b> <b>I had almost given up.</b> <b>One, two, three, four...

It's 12 feet.

It's good.</b> <b>Enough room for the children to play.</b> <b>Here, this is your space.</b> <b>What is the number?</b> <b>228.</b> <b>228.</b> <b>That's all?</b> <b>That's all.

</b> <b>And Charlie?

</b> <b>Charlie will come with us, too!</b> <b>Good afternoon, Lesly.

</b> <b>Hi Maria, how are you?

</b> <b>Good!

Happy!</b> <b>Great.

Did they already give you the trailer?

</b> <b>We are picking up the keys tomorrow.

</b> <b>Congratulations!

How wonderful!</b> <b>Thank you for encouraging us to keep</b> <b>fighting here and also over there.</b> <b>We are tenants now.</b> <b>And the good thing is that Mountain View</b> <b>has clean water, and it's connected.

</b> <b>You are going to pay the water district</b> <b>directly for what you use.

</b> <b>This does not mean that because I got a new trailer</b> <b>that I am not going to keep on supporting the others.</b> <b>I've already been through it and I know</b> <b>the big problems that most of us have here.</b> <b>Of course.

Congratulations!</b> <b>For now, Pedro's win is amazing.</b> <b>This is where the washer and dryer will go.</b> <b>Hot, and cold.</b> <b>Look, the keys to our new home.</b> <b>They go straight on the keychain.</b> <b>Hey Cinthia, which ones are the new ones?</b> <b>This one!</b> <b>You do know!</b> <b>Look, the water comes out clear here!</b> <b>It's transparent.</b> <b>That's a big difference.

</b> <b>And it doesn't smell.

It doesn't smell!</b> <b>It's a safer community.

</b> <b>It has the appropriate infrastructure,</b> <b>it has potable drinking water.</b> <b>It has a level of security and attention from law enforcement.

</b> <b>Still, mobile home housing itself is not</b> <b>a great model of housing for anybody</b> <b>It's not just about Oasis Mobile Home Park.</b> <b>For the rest of the Oasis residents,</b> <b>their fight still continues,</b> <b>every day, with contaminated water</b> <b>and poor housing conditions.</b> <b>I have to take them out so they won't fall onto the highway</b> <b>when they take [the trailer] to be demolished.</b> <b>Now I have to board it up so dust won't get in.</b> <b>It seems like we don't have many things, but we do.

</b> <b>We have a lot of stuff.</b> <b>What else do you want me to take?

</b> <b>Do you want to do another trip to take this?</b> <b>It feels sad because even though</b> <b>it was ugly, it was my home.

</b> <b>I think this [move] is going to be the first good</b> <b>part of living in the United States.

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