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'Cold water on my shoulders': Trailer park residents fear displacement by urban development Yue Stella Yu, Nashville Tennessean © Andrew Nelles / The Tennessean Brixel Rios and her father, Javier Rios, speak about the termination of their lease at the 1209 Dickerson Pike mobile home community in Nashville, Tenn., Monday, July 12, 2021. The land owner has told residents they must leave the property by August 31st to ready the land for redevelopment. Where to next? Javier Ríos does not know. For 24 years, the trailer park at 1509 Dickerson Pike — W.C. Company Mobile Home ...

Where to next? Javier Ríos does not know. For 24 years, the trailer park at 1509 Dickerson Pike — W.C. Company Mobile Home Community — has been where Ríos calls home.  The 56-year-old pays $450 a month to keep his mobile home there — the only affordable option for his family of five to remain in gentrified East Nashville, he said. So when a lease termination notice arrived at his home in June,  telling him to move out by the end of August, Ríos was stunned. "It was like if they would have just thrown cold water on my shoulders," he said in Spanish.