“Pitiful amount”: Buyouts as low as $2,500 as Little Havana trailer park faces closure

The Silver Court Mobile Home Park in Miami’s Little Havana is set to close later this year, marking the latest casualty of Miami-Dade County’s building boom that’s squeezing out older affordable housing. Residents of the 65-year-old complex at 3200 Southwest Eighth Street were notified last month that it will close in September, displacing more than 200 families and eliminating a rare source of deeply affordable housing, the Miami Herald reported. The property is owned by an affiliate of Malibu, California-based Marquis Property Company, which purchased it and another mobile home park, the Sunnyside/Westhaven complex at 6020 Southwest 8th Street in […]This article originally appeared on The Real Deal. Click here to read the full story.