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Lori Teresa Yearwood

November 17, 2021

A Widow Prepares To Start Living In Her Van

It is as if the eviction has been a long-brewing and inevitable storm aimed at Susan Violette, who lives in Worcester County in central Massachusetts.

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Eric S. Peterson

October 27, 2021

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Is Utah misusing federal funding intended to help renters by paying landlord legal fees?

Ashley Beamer was walking her dog outside her Holladay apartment one night last April when the light from her phone reflected off something strange in the tree above her.

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Lori Teresa Yearwood

May 19, 2021

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A $9-an-hour port-a-potty job helped her escape homelessness. Now she watches others struggle.

Dawn Woudenberg witnesses the pain on Salt Lake City’s streets working across from the homeless shelter where she used to sleep.

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Alieza Durana and Carl Gershenson

May 12, 2021

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Struggling Renters Need More Federal Aid

The Biden-Harris administration did not expand Section 8 vouchers in its recent infrastructure proposals, which could leave millions of renters behind.

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Christina Leimer

May 11, 2021

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San Francisco Supervisors Put Corporate Responsibility to the Test

In San Francisco, Supervisors are taking an unusual tack. Just to cover tenants’ COVID-related rent debt accumulated from April through September 2020, their Budget and Legislative Analyst estimated the City would need about two to four …

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Nina Riggio (Photography)

April 30, 2021

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A Year in a School Bus: Amid COVID-19, A Family Finds Freedom Traveling the American West

Paula, 39, and Max have lived in their 35-foot skoolie—a term for school buses which have been renovated into small mobile homes—for nearly a year, often traveling across public Bureau of Land Management (BLM) land in Arizona, California, …

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Greta Moran

April 22, 2021

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They Planned to Grow Old Together

For 24 years, Marie Giardino and her partner Michaeljon Blue made a home, a cozy yellow house with a front porch and fenced backyard in Rochester, New York. They lived with many cats and dogs lucky enough to once cross Blue’s path: “If a …

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