BELL, Calif. (KABC) -- Hundreds of people who live in two Bell mobile home parks may soon be displaced as the city works on plans to close the parks and sell them to be redeveloped into housing, retail and entertainment destinations.

The city says it still owns the Bell Mobile Home Park and the Florence Village Mobile Home Park, which together contain more than 400 residential units. But Bell wants to close the parks "to protect resident safety and support long-term land use planning and community reinvestment" according to a statement from the city manager's office.

Residents are concerned that the city's plans will push them out of the parks and into housing they would no longer be able to afford.

"It will be extremely difficult because they're already in an elderly age so to find so

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