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When I lived in Seattle, I once was late paying my rent (by mistake I put the check in the wrong box).

The landlord put a note on my door saying, I paraphrase, that I either pay or get kicked out in a few days.

Do you think that before kicking me out they should have given me $20k to ease the pain and suffering I would endure due to not having a place to live?

Are the rules for those people different?

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I'm not saying these people deserve anything here. That's a complex question whose answer I don't know and which I haven't given nearly enough thought to.

I'm merely saying, if you evict these people (which may be an entirely reasonable and justified action) then $20,000 isn't necessarily going to go very far in making it up to them.

As to whether they deserve more, or less, or anything, I don't know. You'll probably want to take that up with the parent comment.

Yup. For one they aren't delinquent on rent. But also the rules literally are different, there are city and state ordinances governing this trailer park. Residents are entitled to the appraised value of their homes, the city had to approve its closure, etc.

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