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PHOENIX — About 150 residents won’t be evicted from Weldon Court Mobile Home Park, which was scheduled to officially close on Friday.
The property owners “agreed to file no eviction actions against residents" still living at the property, the Community Legal Services attorneys told 12News late Tuesday.
“Between now and July 15, we hope to reach a final settlement,” a message sent out to tenants and provided to 12News by the organization read. “We continue to negotiate with the owners for additional relocation assistance.”
The 50 families that remain living in their mobile homes had until June 30 to move out, after getting a...
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And here’s another story of a park being torn down for redevelopment. One of the residents in the article admonishes “we don’t have a place to go” – which means they can’t find anything as affordable. The moral is that residents should embrace higher rents because without them they are homeless. Would an extra $150 per month in lot rent have saved the day? We’ll never know. Nobody ever wants to accept this reality until the eviction notices go out.