Miami-Dade mobile home residents say goodbye after an almost year-long legal battle

Sonia Carballo still remembers her two children, now college students, playing with their neighbors in the streets of Li’l Abner Mobile Home Park in Sweetwater.

“They would go around here on their bikes, running and playing,” Carballo told WLRN, in Spanish, as she surveyed demolition around the neighborhood on Tuesday. “We would go to the park, I would take them to the pool.”

Carballo began moving out last week. This made her one of the roughly 200 mobile homeowners that did not budge after the landlords, Consolidated Real Estate Investments, offered the 900 families living there $14,000 last November, to leave by January. The sum progressively decreased in the following months…

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