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Residents press Sweetwater commissioners over Little Abner mobile-home displacements as litigation continues
Summary
Dozens of residents and volunteers told the City of Sweetwater on Feb. 2025 that a planned redevelopment of the Little Abner mobile-home community has left families uncertain, with some trailers demolished and a pending class-action lawsuit limiting official comment.
Dozens of residents told the City of Sweetwater commission at its Feb. 2025 meeting that the planned redevelopment and buyouts at the Little Abner mobile-home park have left families without clear options and in some cases already displaced.
The speakers photographed personal losses and health effects and asked commissioners to intervene. “What is the response by the commission board for the people who are going to be displaced?” asked a resident who said she is a single mother and that her trailer was valued at $42,000. “There is nowhere else for them to go,” she said.
Carl Mueller of 275 Fontainebleau Boulevard, who identified himself as an activist for Little Abner, told the commission the redevelopment is producing “a human tragedy of biblical proportion,” saying, by his account, the park once housed about 900 families and that recent buyouts did not…
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