Eviction at Lil Abner Trailer Park

Not everything is in the hands of politicians, but it is within their power to try to manage a solution, so get to work, Levine!

Listen, the 12% who voted for me can’t matter more to me than the 62% who made you mayor for a second time. And since we’re talking about Miami and the hot issues happening, yesterday, residents of a trailer park in Westchester received an eviction notice.

I have people who sent me the letter, but I can’t find the part where it specifies the amount of money planned for these people. It’s all there; they have it.

Okay, put it up there. Look here; there’s the letter. Yesterday, residents of a trailer park—if you don’t know what a trailer park is, these are mobile homes that people buy and then need to place on a site where cities and counties authorize this type of housing. They pay a small monthly fee to keep their mobile home there and form a community, right?

These lands are private; they belong to an owner who obtained zoning and licenses for a mobile home business on that site. But Miami is growing completely. There’s no more land for building. They’re even destroying agricultural lands for condominiums because Mayor Daniella Levine Cava has her big donors, developers, and builders to please.

What has the county done? It’s managing every piece of land it can acquire to develop these projects that Daniella promised her sponsors.

This land has evidently been purchased; the owners received an offer to develop other constructions there. It’s very central, Flagler and somewhere in the 100s, I don’t know exactly.

Look at what’s been happening since last night. People, desperate, have been reaching out to my campaign, asking me to please show up there because they know that if I had been mayor, this wouldn’t be happening.

That’s their view. Let me tell you, folks, there’s very little a politician can do besides mediate and perhaps get a two or three-month extension to help you find a place to go. But, ultimately, if it’s private land, the owner has the right to sell it, rent it, or do whatever they want with it. So, sooner or later, you’ll have to find another place to go.

This is the letter that people in this trailer park have been receiving, and these are the amounts being offered. If you leave before January 31, they’ll pay you $14,000, right? If people leave before March 31, they’ll receive $7,000. And if people leave by April 30, they’ll receive $3,000.

After this date, on May 19, 2025, if they haven’t left, the trailer park will be without water, electricity, and any services. And those who remain will face these financial sanctions; they’ll have to pay that amount as a penalty for staying in a place where they can’t be.

It’s private property; if the owners declare that you can’t stay there and you remain, you’re trespassing. You’re invading a territory, and you’ll face not only rent issues but also legal problems.

That’s why I, with the VPP, was speaking today, sending a message to everyone in this difficult and terrible situation. Educate yourselves, educate yourselves. Seek people, talk to people, consult a lawyer who can explain what you can and cannot do because there are offers to the owners.

If you’re not the owner of the trailer, listen to me: if you’re renting a mobile home owned by someone who doesn’t live there, that owner will be interested in collecting the $1,000 they’re offering, and that same owner will evict you, forcing you out with an eviction notice.

So, get well informed, please, because it’s not all “let’s just…” It’s not all that simple. There are times when the law works, but there are times when negotiation is your best option.

Put up the audio so we can hear the demands of the people… I may be having issues? I need to stay on private property, please, not in the street… please, understand, everyone, I’m asking you. Yes, good afternoon, dear friends. Look, this is what’s happening right now on 110th and Flagler.

This is the trailer area; right now, all trailer owners received a letter saying they have to start leaving the area. What’s happening here is creating a tremendous atmosphere because there are families who have lived here for years and have grown up here, and eviction letters are being sent to all trailer owners.

As you can see, they’ve already built a building in that area, and they’re constructing another in the back. What they want is to remove all families, all families here—thousands of families who have lived here for years, who built this place from scratch. When they came here, there was practically nothing, and now that everything is done and the city has progressed, they want to kick them all out to build apartments costing about $3,200 each.

So tell me, with a standard wage of $12 an hour, the minimum wage right now, who can afford an apartment like that? Check it out; nobody here earns enough for that. Where will all these people, the thousands currently living here, go? This is happening right here; TV is here, some channel… I don’t know which one.

It’s a big problem because a lot of people here don’t know where to go. This is incredible.

Let me reiterate the letter: it gives them time until next May, May 2025. Okay, they have time until April, with a final deadline of May 19. They’re not being told, “leave now.” Mobile homes can be moved with time and organization to other trailer parks that may have availability. It’s private property; understand that.

“No,” the man says, “but these people have lived here for years.” But they didn’t buy the land; they’ve lived here for years, content with paying rent to someone else. When you live on someone else’s property, that other person makes the decisions. That’s why, ideally, you should buy as soon as you can: buy a house, an apartment, buy wherever you can. And even buying doesn’t guarantee security, as taxes can increase to the point where people can’t keep paying.

Do you remember my campaign? I campaigned hard, warning about “building Dubai over the skeletons” of those who built Miami-Dade. Here you have it. I’ve been exposing that Levin and the major interests behind her—mainly realtors and developers—are buying up Miami, and Levin’s plan is to displace the middle class. They’re doing it in the Design District, in Little Havana, in Swér, Biscayne, everywhere in Miami.

But they didn’t vote for Levin. It’s not Levin who received 90,000 ballots by mail because she’s “sweet owner” and knows what she’s doing. Well, here’s the result of voting poorly. See what I said? The bad guy in the story, which is me. Voting poorly always has consequences.

Now, I can’t go there to try to solve anyone’s problems because I’m not the mayor. If I were mayor, waiting to take office in January, I could go there and mediate between the owners, developers, and politics. But I can’t do that now, so they have to complain to Levin. Go to Daniella Levine Cava’s office, gather outside the mayor’s office, demand explanations, and ask for more time.

But here’s my advice, folks, listen up. Even if it sounds harsh or heavy, my advice is: don’t rest on your laurels. You can never stay on land that belongs to someone else. Sooner or later, in May, April, even if they extend it to June next year, you will still have to leave. So, to avoid leaving everything until the last minute, start looking now, and you’ll be able to find a solution. Okay.

I regret not being your mayor. The first ones harmed by not voting for me. Good luck, success, my loves. It saddened me; yesterday they played an audio from the campaign’s voicemail, with people calling. Several calls were received: “No, because Otaola has to come here; Otaola was the guy who had to be mayor.” If I were the mayor now, this wouldn’t be happening. Ah, loves, but life is like that. Some didn’t see it clearly, and, well, consequences are paid. Would you like to see everything clearly, crystal clear, clairvoyant?