Some residents of a Barrie neighbourhood are fighting to stay in their homes.   

Residents in the Burton Avenue Trailer Park are being told they have to move, and many of them say they're getting a rotten deal. 

Fleur Ottaway is busy trying to sell everything she can on Kijiji. She lives in the trailer park and has been told she must be out by next summer.

“It's very disappointing. It's very tough,” she says. “Because you know we're a young couple and our plan was to kind of, this was our starter place and then use this as an investment to get into a bigger place.”

Ottaway is one of about 200 residents living in the park. The property owners have applied to have the site re-zoned and want to build more than one hundred townhouses on the land.

Many residents say they have checked around for other local parks but have had no luck.

“Where are you going to go? I have no idea,” says another resident. “The only option is let everything go and lose all the money. And rent an apartment in town and pay $1,000 a month.”

 He pays $400 dollars a month for the plot his trailer sits on.

The parks owners are required to offer everyone $3,000 to help pay for the cost of moving. But many say that's not nearly enough. Another resident says getting the trailers on the road could be an issue, and could cost thousands and require insurance.

“The cost of moving is what's really going to kill us. And we also have yet to find a company who's been willing to move it. I've contacted about 30 of them,” Ottaway says.

The mobile home park is not technically considered affordable housing by the county but it is housing that is affordable for many.

The wait list for affordable housing in Simcoe County has a list of 3,000 families on it. The average wait time for a home is up to four years.

Mayor Jeff Lehman and Ward 8 Coun. Arif Khan are inside Unity Christian School on Burton Avenue listening to residents’ concerns face-to-face tonight, Aug. 14, 2013.

Khan says the city will do what it can to help the people out, but admits it has its hands tied.

“This is truly a landlord-tenant situation. And in a landlord-tenant situation, the jurisdiction for that is provincial,” Khan says. “So really the municipality has no rights.”

People who call the Burton Avenue Trailer Park home have to be out by next summer.