“Final notice” letters were posted on residents trailers and mobile homes late last week.
City officials are working to close a $6.8 million sale with developers. As part of the deal, all trailers, campers, recreational vehicles and their occupants have to be gone, said Mayor Otis Wallace.
“The deal can’t close until the campsite is empty,” said Wallace, who’s been mayor of Florida City since 1984.
The letter threatens that failure to comply by Wednesday, March 17, 2021, “means that you will be trespassing on private property and subject to removal under the law.” The letter is signed by City Attorney Regine Monestime.
Trailer park residents in Florida City being told they must find new place to live
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The property has been sold and they have until Wednesday to get out.
Residents don’t think they have been given enough notice, but the mayor said they have known this was going to happen for months.
The people living there are mostly low-income, long-term residents, and most have no idea where to go.
“We have nowhere to go,” said resident Cynthia Thomas. “This is our home. This is where we live.”
Residents have been told they need to get off the land by Wednesday or they would be trespassing.
Dozens of residents of a low-income trailer park in South Florida are being forced to leave the place they have lived for years after city officials made a deal to sell the land to developers.
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