3,000 Mobile Home Park Residents Get The Boot As Landowner Decides To Put 20 Acre Property To New Use

In Broward County, Florida, the South Florida Sun Sentinel reports:

• One of the town's largest mobile home parks is set to close today, forcing hundreds from their homes. Sonja Borrero is just one of them. But her plight, chronicled in the Sun Sentinel on Thursday, touched the hearts of more than two dozen strangers. Through e-mails and calls to the paper, they offered Borrero money and a place to stay.

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• On Friday, Borrero was one of about 100 people remaining at Palma Nova. The 940-unit park lost the majority of its 3,000 tenants after eviction notices arrived in August telling them to move out by Feb. 28. A hearing on Friday requested by Legal Aid Service of Broward County failed to halt the eviction. Park owner Austin Forman has not revealed his plans for the 20-acre parcel.

For more, see Davie mobile home park resident's plight tugs at heartstrings (Saturday is deadline to move, Public responds to evicted Palma Nova resident).