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Lillian Bailey lived without power in a Surrey trailer park for more than two months.

The 88-year-old had no power, heat or phone connection after a worker accidentally cut the lines to the property. When Bailey shared her story with Global News, BC Hydro and Surrey’s city manager finally fixed the problem and the park’s owner promised to buy Bailey a new home.

She thought she had found one at a neighbouring RV park. She had the money to buy it and the sellers accepted, but as a prospective tenant Bailey needed the park manager’s approval, and he wouldn’t take her calls.

“Of course I asked him why and he said it’s because she’s too old,” says Sue Hammell, NDP MLA for Surrey-Green Timbers. “She was too old, that she wouldn’t fit, her son was 70 and had health issues, and I was flabbergasted.”

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The RV park Bailey currently calls home is up for sale and she now has just over six weeks to move out, but she still has nowhere to go.

The park manager was not available for an interview today.

At 88 years old, Bailey not only takes care of herself and her son, she still cleans up after others.

“You can’t discriminate against people because of their age,” says Bailey. “I’ve been on my own for the past 50 years, earning my own living and looking after myself.”

Bailey said she’s considering filing a human rights complaint.

The trailer she wanted has since sold to someone else.

“It’s frustrating when you know you have to go, and you can’t get at it,” she says.

Bailey doesn’t know where she’ll go next, but hopes to find a place that will take her, her son and two cats.

A fundraising page was set up for Lillian when she was raising money to buy a new trailer.

– With files from Tanya Beja.

WATCH: Randene Neill’s previous story on Lillian Bailey: