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Over the last decade, mobile home parks — or trailer parks, as they are commonly known — have become something of a rarity in South Florida. As the price of land has creeped up to unprecedented heights, investors have increasingly targeted these sites and the acres they sit upon as being ripe for development.
As WLRN has extensively reported those land purchases often immediately lead to longtime residents being evicted from their homes. The result is that one of the most affordable housing options available is disappearing. In their place, luxury developments far out of the reach of local salaries have gone up.
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Over the last decade, mobile home parks — or trailer parks, as they are commonly known — have become something of a rarity in South Florida. As the price of land has creeped up to unprecedented heights, investors have increasingly targeted these sites and the acres they sit upon as being ripe for development.
The harsh reality of the situation has forced many to question the very foundations of the region’s socioeconomic foundation, as decades-long residents are forced to leave the region.
Several residents WLRN spoke to who faced eviction from a Hialeah trailer park in 2018 said the experience made them consider returning to Communist Cuba, faulting the lack of tenant protections in the US for their plight. “We live in a capitalist country,” Carlos Hernandez, the then-mayor of that city, explained at the time. “This is a trailer park where the owners of the land sold it to another company.”
So apparently now even the re-development of mobile home park land is evil. Although mobile home parks represent .000000000000000000000000000000001% of all American land mass, the mere concept of building an apartment complex on the old park site is more evil than “Communist Cuba” (their quote, not mine).
Since LOW LOT RENTS = REDEVELOPMENT, maybe this reporter should instead write an article urging park owners to raise their rent significantly to stave off the wrecking ball?