Social Betterment Properties International (SBPI) is a California-based corporation associated with the Church of Scientology, for which it operates as a real estate arm.
In April 2013, it was disclosed that SBPI had paid $5 million to purchase the estate of actor Larry Hagman at Ojai, California.
[1] The purpose of this purchase was not disclosed but Mike Rinder, the former head of the church's Office of Special Affairs, has suggested that it may be intended for use as a "celebrity Narconon".
[6] Although zoning restrictions meant that establishing such a facility at Trout Run would ordinarily be impossible, using it as a group home would be permitted under local ordinances if the property was listed on the county's historic register.
[9] In 2014, SBPI acquired a parcel of land in an isolated part of the Canadian town Milton, Ontario and applied for permission to establish a Narconon center there.