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Voices from the pandemic: Tusdae Barr, on being evicted from her home during the coronavirus crisis

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Tags: usa.tx.houston, eviction, voices from the pandemic, housing, coronaviruses.covid19, interviews, author.eli saslow, source.the washington post, paywall.hard
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/08/15/eviction-coronavirus-houston/

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Title
'May rent. June rent. Late fees. Penalties.'
Published
Aug 15 2020
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1704 words

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    Other articles in this series: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/national/voices-of-the-pandemic/ https://tildes.net/~health.coronavirus?tag=voices_from_the_pandemic

    We put together all of our savings to pay the rent in March. The stimulus money helped cover most of April. I donated plasma for twenty-five bucks. I cleaned an old friend’s apartment for twenty. I fixed up people’s hair for whatever they could give me, but it was never enough. May rent. June rent. Late fees. Penalties. The hole kept getting bigger. Phone bills. Electric. Trash. Insurance. Water. We were stacking up bills and putting off our problems, and we knew it was only a matter of time. Houston had an eviction ban for those first few months, but that didn’t mean they stopped charging us. The landlord kept knocking on our door, but all we had for him was more apologies. The court sent a letter in July telling us we needed to pay $3,000 or we would be evicted, and that’s when everything started to spiral.

    Other articles in this series:

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/national/voices-of-the-pandemic/

    https://tildes.net/~health.coronavirus?tag=voices_from_the_pandemic

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