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Formerly location to 5,000, improvement is acceptable to beryllium cleared for caller lodging by midnight
MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – A last deadline is conscionable hours distant for the remaining residents of Li’l Abner Mobile Home Park, erstwhile a bustling assemblage of astir 900 families.
By midnight, the spot successful Sweetwater is expected to beryllium cleared of each remaining tenants to marque mode for a caller workforce lodging development.
Construction has already been underway for months.
Several tons person been stripped of their mobile homes. Some units person been relocated, portion others look abandoned and looted.
But an lawyer for the remaining residents says much than 220 families — astir 1,000 radical — inactive unrecorded connected the property.
That’s down from the estimated 5,000 who called the parkland location earlier eviction notices were issued past November.
Since then, protests person been near-daily arsenic residents propulsion backmost against what they accidental was an improper and unjust eviction.
“It wasn’t right,” said Martha Torres, who inactive lives successful the parkland with her extended household — 11 people, including children, nether 1 roof.
Torres is 1 of galore residents present portion of a people enactment suit aimed astatine halting the evictions and holding the owners accountable.
“We’re paying. This isn’t free,” she said successful Spanish, showing impervious of rent payments adjacent arsenic she points to rashes and wellness issues she believes are linked to the deteriorating situation astir her.
County inspections antecedently detected asbestos successful 4 demolished homes astatine the park, though the spot owners person denied immoderate hazardous conditions.
Past region inspections discovered asbestos connected astatine slightest 4 demolished homes successful the development. The spot owners contradict hazardous conditions here.
Still, Torres says she is holding connected to hope.
“We person religion successful God and successful the judge,” she said.
What happens adjacent whitethorn beryllium decided not by bulldozers — but by the courts.
Read the ailment and petition by the assemblage successful the documents below.
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