Jinny Curtiss’ home is beautiful. It has cream siding with forest green trim around the windows. Inside, songbird knickknacks perch atop a vintage wooden hutch that separates the kitchen from a tidy, cozy living room.
Curtiss keeps a small garden fountain outside and changes the flowers around it every spring. One year they’re red and yellow, another year blue and purple, another year completely pink for breast cancer awareness.
The 82-year-old was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2020. That was 13 years after she moved here. She’s always planned to die here, too.
“Take me out of here in a box,” she says.
But now, that might not be possible.
Like many mobile home residents, Curtiss owns her home, but she doesn’t own the land underneath it. She lives in Bona Vista, a community in Otis Orchards. She’s rented the 14-by-70-foot lot where her home sits since 2007.
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