In a rare consolidated hearing, a panel of five county judges presided over about 210 eviction cases involving the residents of the Li'l Abner Mobile Home Park in Sweetwater — all at once.

More than 100 Li'l Abner residents poured into a sixth floor courtroom in the Miami-Dade County downtown courthouse as their attorneys argued why they should not be evicted from their homes after their landlord told everyone to leave last November.

"All we’re asking for is that they do the right thing and give each person what they are owed,” mobile home owner Milagros Pérez told WLRN in Spanish.

Pérez said she bought her mobile home at Li'l Abner around September of 2024. Just two months later, her and about 900 neighbors received notices that the park was going to be redeveloped and they must vacat

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