{"id":11458,"date":"2025-11-21T16:05:35","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T19:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/2025\/11\/21\/greens-urge-p-e-i-housing-minister-to-expropriate-evergreen-village\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T16:05:35","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T19:05:35","slug":"greens-urge-p-e-i-housing-minister-to-expropriate-evergreen-village","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/2025\/11\/21\/greens-urge-p-e-i-housing-minister-to-expropriate-evergreen-village\/","title":{"rendered":"Greens urge P.E.I. housing minister to expropriate Evergreen Village"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>PEIThe P.E.I. Greens are urging government to expropriate the Evergreen Village property in Summerside in order to help the neighbourhood\u2019s residents who fear the loss of their homes.\u2019These families shouldn\u2019t be put through this wringer any longer than they\u2019ve been,\u2019 says Green LeaderCody MacKay  \u00b7 CBC News  \u00b7 Posted: Nov 21, 2025 9:00 AM EST | Last Updated: 5 hours agoListen to this articleEstimated 4 minutesThe audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence.Residents of the Evergreen Village mobile home park have received eviction notices for the second time, and have previously described the situation as an \u2019emotional gut punch.\u2019 (CBC)The P.E.I. Greens are urging government to expropriate the Evergreen Village property in Summerside in order to help the neighbourhood\u2019s residents who fear the loss of their homes.In question period Thursday, Green Leader Matt MacFarlane asked Housing Minister Cory Deagle whether government would expropriate the Summerside mobile home park, considering negotiations to purchase it have allegedly fallen apart.Deagle said it\u2019s not that simple.\u201dI can\u2019t just go into a privately-owned park and fix all of these things,\u201d he said to MacFarlane. \u201cYou could imagine who I would have coming to me looking to do this right across the Island. The owner is responsible for upkeeping this. I know the residents have appealed to IRAC. I hope that they\u2019re successful because we don\u2019t want to see anyone lose their home. \u201cMacFarlane disagreed with the notion that Deagle can\u2019t just \u201cfix\u201d everything.\u201dExpropriation is an option for this property to give these people the peace of mind,\u201d he said. \u201cYou can expropriate at fair market value so you don\u2019t have to pay the millions of dollars that you\u2019re referring to.\u201dExpropriation a \u2018very, very last resort\u2019The residents of the mobile home park received eviction notices for the second time now, and have previously described the situation as an \u201cemotional gut punch.\u201dThere are about 57 families in the community, which is owned by landlord Clifford McQuaid. The private land has a private water system and privately maintained roads, separate from the City of Summerside. Residents first learned that McQuaid planned to sell the land last year.  It\u2019s not a precedent that we want to set.- Cory Deagle, Minister of HousingMcQuaid previously told CBC News that the park is no longer financially viable due to rising expenses and rents that aren\u2019t covering his costs.After question period, Deagle told reporters government has been trying to help negotiate a purchase of the property to an unnamed third-party he called a \u201ccommunity organization.\u201d Expropriation is an option, but not one he wants to do, he said.\u201dExpropriation would be a very, very last resort. I guess I can say that everything is always on the table, however that would also involve government owning the trailer park at the end of the day,\u201d Deagle told CBC News.\u201dWhat we have is a landlord who\u2019s holding government hostage, saying \u2018I have 57 families I am going to evict if you don\u2019t give me the money that I want for my trailer park\u2019\u2026 That is not how we operate. We can\u2019t have landlords holding government hostage with families like this.\u201dMinister of Housing Cory Deagle says it\u2019s less about the ability to expropriate, but rather the principle of a person asking government to make them a \u2018multi-millionaire.\u2019 (Rick Gibbs\/CBC)By law, it\u2019s within government\u2019s ability to use the Expropriation Act to obtain property like Evergreen Village. Deagle said it\u2019s less about the ability to expropriate, but rather the principle of a person asking government to make them a \u201cmulti-millionaire.\u201d\u201dIt\u2019s not how we operate,\u201d Deagle said.\u201dI\u2019m not going to come in and say \u2018Yeah, we\u2019re just going to expropriate every property that a landlord comes to us and says \u201cWe\u2019re going to evict everyone.&#8217;\u201d It\u2019s not a precedent that we want to set.\u201dGovernment needs to expropriate, Greens sayMacFarlane called it \u201cunacceptable\u201d for residents to be in the middle, and facing homelessness. \u201cWe\u2019ve seen government exercise its right to expropriate property before, and this would be a really good example of a time where they should use that power again to provide some certainty for these people,\u201d he said.\u201dThe expropriation process involves an appraisal to determine what the fair market value is for this property, and that way taxpayer\u2019s dollars are protected.\u201dGreen Leader Matt MacFarlane says government needs to expropriate the Evergreen Village property, which would give the landowner, residents and government what they want. (Rick Gibbs\/CBC)MacFarlane said it\u2019s his understanding that negotiations are not making progress, and asked Deagle to make a decision to expropriate soon.\u201dThe clock\u2019s ticking on the notice of eviction,\u201d he said.\u201dThese people and these families shouldn\u2019t be put through this wringer any longer than they\u2019ve been. Unfortunately, it\u2019s been too long as it is, with that clock ticking on the eviction date.\u201dABOUT THE AUTHORCody MacKay is a writer, editor and producer for CBC News on Prince Edward Island. From Summerside, he\u2019s a UPEI history and Carleton masters of journalism grad who joined CBC P.E.I. in 2017. You can reach him at cody.mackay@cbc.ca<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PEIThe P.E.I. Greens are urging government to expropriate the Evergreen Village property in Summerside in order to help the neighbourhood\u2019s residents who fear the loss of their homes.\u2019These families shouldn\u2019t be put through this wringer any longer than they\u2019ve been,\u2019 says Green LeaderCody MacKay \u00b7 CBC News \u00b7 Posted: Nov 21, 2025 9:00 AM EST [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11459,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118,131,1],"tags":[116,130],"class_list":["post-11458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-indigenous","category-prince-edward-island","category-uncategorized","tag-indigenous","tag-prince-edward-island"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}