CORCORAN, Calif. ( KSEE/KGPE ) – Over a dozen home buyers in the Kings County city of Corcoran say they have been unable to move into their new houses due to PG&E’s inability to provide the new builds with power.
Since 2021, realtor Reina Madrid says PG&E has worked with developer D.R. Horton to build and power the homes on the Fox Run development in Corcoran. Madrid says in August 2023, families had rental contracts in their hands and were ready to move in – but that excitement was swept out from underneath them after PG&E kept delaying the process to power to the development.
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“It was first like, February, March, April, May, June, July,” Madrid said. “Now there’s not a specific timeframe on when they should be getting keys.”
Madrid says between 17 and 25 families were in rental agreements out of the 48 lots on the Fox Run development. Two families that she knows of had to sell their homes, and another family had their rent raised after leaving their annual lease agreement for a month-to-month arrangement – all while waiting for their homes to be ready…