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mahatmakanejeeves

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Wed Aug 31, 2016, 02:35 PM Aug 2016

Nowhere to go: Manassas trailer park residents face eviction

Nowhere to go: Manassas trailer park residents face eviction



Crescenio Pinon Torres and his neighbors received eviction notices Monday from their homes at the East End Mobile Home Park in Manassas. (Patricia Sullivan/The Washington Post)

By Patricia Sullivan
http://twitter.com/psullivan1

August 30 at 4:19 PM 

About 60 families are being evicted from a Manassas mobile home park that was bought by the city government on condition that the land be emptied of people and trailers.

There are 300 people living in the 58 structures at the East End Mobile Home Park, just over 30 miles west of Washington. Most are low-income, many are Latino immigrants, and a significant number have lived there for years. ... The property manager notified residents Monday that they have until Feb. 28 to vacate.

At a demonstration that night organized by the Latino advocacy group CASA, residents said there are no other mobile home parks in the area that will accept their older-model trailers. They also said they lack the thousands of dollars it would take to move the structures elsewhere.

“How is it okay for the city to force people into bankruptcy?” asked Dawn Kestner, who pays $450 each month to rent her site and has lived at the seven-acre park for 20 years with her husband and stepdaughter. “People here are low-income but hard-working.”
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Nowhere to go: Manassas trailer park residents face eviction (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2016 OP
“How is it okay for the city to force people into bankruptcy?” elleng Aug 2016 #1
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