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State of Mobile Home Displacement in Florida in 2008

View speech by Mitch Chester, Esq., to the 21st Annual Statewide Affordable Housing Conference in Orlando, Florida on 9.16.08, hosted by the The Florida Housing Coalition. Mr. Chester was asked to speak about mobile home park preservation legal issues.

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New: Posted 10.9.08

"Uprooted..."Emmy award winning documentary on the closure of mobile home parks

See San Jose Mercury News.com's compelling documentary about the nationwide mobile home park closure crisis. This must see project was photographed by Mercury News photograher Dai Sugano.

To view parts 2 through 6, click here.

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Crisis in Hallandale Beach...On the front lines of America's Accessible Housing Wars

New Times Broward/Palm Beach edition writes on the Tower Mobile Home Park dispute with the City of Hallandale Beach...see article written by noted journalist Bob Norman, entitled, "Trailer Trashed, Hallandale draws a bead on its most vulnerable citizens," here. Article published 3.27.08.

Frank Serra, Chairman of the Town of Davie Mobile Home Task Force, addressing residents of the Tower Mobile Home Park on Friday, 11.30.07. Tenants of Tower have filed a lawsuit against the City of Hallandale Beach to stop the City's plans to close the park and eliminate homes, so it can expand a local sports park designated for pet use.

See SharedEmergency's special report, including video.

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Above...Residents of the Tower Mobile Home and RV Park in Hallandale Beach Florida.

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View SharedEmergency's video on Mobile Home Displacement in the Town of Davie, Broward County, Florida, produced 10.1.07

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Across America, thousands of manufactured home park residents face the prospect of losing their habitats due to the threat of park redevelopment. For many individuals faced with displacement from their communities, alternative housing options are few.

Mobile home parks, the most affordable of "affordable housing," are threatened.

Displacement of individuals from mobile home parks is a moral issue. It is also an economic issue. The controversy is a property rights issue. Most of all, it is a human rights issue.

On this site, we discuss this pressing but often ignored controversy, seek constructive discourse of the multiple factors making up this dilemma, and we proffer various solutions.

Sponsored by the Law Office of Mitchell A. Chester, P.A.