Marisol Sanchez is devastated after losing her home in the Li'l Abner Mobile Home Park, which is being cleared for a new affordable housing complex. The park's eviction notice and low buyout offer of $14,000 have led to an uproar among residents, many of whom see the payout as insufficient compensation for their homes, which are their primary assets. Over 3,000 people lived in the park, and now, as they fight their eviction, they face an affordable housing crisis in Miami, a city ranked among the least affordable for renters.
Only 250 of the park's 900 households remain... The rest have taken the payout. To numerous Li'l Abner home owners... the $14,000 was peanuts.
Marisol Sánchez sobbed outside the Sweetwater trailer... they once called home. The front door was broken down, some windows smashed - the place had been ransacked.
...many have struggled to find new, affordable housing around Miami, recently ranked the second least affordable American metro area for renters.
The eviction represents an enormous and unjust loss of both wealth... and community.
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