Li’l Abner Mobile Home residents run for office while facing eviction

Li’l Abner Mobile Home residents run for office while facing eviction

The eerily quiet lull on Li’l Abner Mobile Home Park’s 112th Avenue is routinely interrupted by the clang of a demolition crane. In just four months, half of the mobile home park in Sweetwater, Florida, has been razed to the ground. An old hibiscus bush nurtured by one family for decades is gone. A handful of mobile homes sparsely populates the once-packed community, giving way to a towering new development and leaving ample space for its inevit…

BBC Mundo tours the Li'l Abner mobile home park, where the last neighbors resist an eviction order

They invested their life savings in a home in the Li'l Abner mobile home park in #Miami. Today, several #Cuban and #Venezuelan families are on the verge of eviction.

They are registered as mobile homes, mobile homes or trailers, but most have the appearance, structure and comforts of any housing in a residential neighborhood. BBC Housed on cement, with 5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, a generous patio and double covered garage, the home that Ricardo Muñiz has shared for 15 years with his wife, son and mother-in-law is one of the most affluent in the Li’l Abner mobile home park. He is now afraid to stay on the street…