Susanna T.MemphisTN

Me and my kids lost our house and a house fire about 2 months ago so we been homeless. I have 3 kids and trying to get back on my feet is hard.

Richard MBiloxiMS

I lost my job when the pandemic was in full swing and was on unemployment(thank God). Then on 08/07/2021 my PEU stopped all my income, then on the day the Supreme Court ruled against the extension of the rent moratorium My Landlord came to my door with an eviction signed by a Mississippi Judge! She brought a great big man who about put a hole in my door at 8am to remove me! (more…)

SharonFort Payne

Hi am a disabled momma and caregiver to two special needs children. My husband and I applied for a loan and was pre authorized. Ok fast forward, six months later still haven’t closed. Now progressive has falsely reported a claim on his credit now we can’t close. Mind you had people at bank not dropped ball months ago we would have closed already. (more…)

Miguel C.Fresno CA

My Name is Miguel; I have been struggling with an illness my whole entire life. I’m 32 years old with a 16year old daughter. I’m strongly believe I’m a victim of an eviction. Due to my medical condition after receiving a kidney transplant November 24, 2019 April 2020 I started with having problems & became very ill to the point that I was fainting. (more…)

Cecilia N.Moses LakeWA

I recently received an eviction notice from my landlord, who is an evil man. In the process of moving out, there a was a mysterious “power outage” and we lost air conditioning in the middle of what can only be described as a climate crisis summer from hell. (more…)

Amy M.New castleIN

I am the sole caregiver of my mother who has dementia osteoporosis and mental issues and my aunt who has severe mental issues as well. We were living in a very small two-bedroom apartment I moved them in with my husband and I because of my mother having dementia and their medical issues so I was able to keep a closer eye on them. (more…)

Marilu V.New BritainCT

I’m not a wealthy person nor do I come from a wealthy family.I’m a middle-aged Spanish woman who comes from a life of poverty and I worked very hard to dig myself out of that trap, which is very hard to do in this country. I had a job working full-time. I was paying my rent, my bills were up-to-date and everything was going very well. (more…)

Melissa V.Kitzmiller MD

My family were evicted and are living in a camper in my sister in laws yard. No water and no way to cook. I don’t know how much more I can take? I already have mental health problems and this has added to it. (more…)

Deanna S.GrandburyTX

Where do I begin..last Monday the Justice Court ruled in favor of my landlord. He wants to sell the RV I’ve been renting. So I don’t qualify for alot of the help offered right now. Come this Monday 8-9-2021 I’ll be homeless. And to make matters even worse; landlord is now sueing me for $20,000 for what he says are damages and unpaid electric bills..this is all untrue, and a very long and complicated story. (more…)

Chris B.Colorado SpringsCO

For almost 11 years I paid my rent on time. I finally had found a job 3 years ago that I thought would pay enough for me to finally save up and buy a home. All it took was a series of setbacks to push me to where I am at now. Last summer during the worse of the pandemic, I got a serious illness that cost me mobility in one of my arms. Because it flares up so often, and interferes with my daily life, I was eventually forced out of that job.

ShellyEast canton OH

I’m a mother of 3 kids. My husband works so hard for our family. We really thought we had a home to call ours; kids and I hate moving so much … so last year we got a house through a friend. We’ve been fine; we pay 1200 a month. I have given over 25 grand to her, but found out she took the money, never paid the house. (more…)

Jenny D.BurlingtonNC

Our family of seven adults is struggling. My husband’s income supports all seven of us. Four of our kids just graduated with Honors and High Honors from the local community college. Three lost jobs because of the pandemic. The CDC Eviction Moratorium kept us in our home.

Same landlord is suing us for the 2nd time in a pandemic year. The 1st case was decided in our favor because the landlord’s story wasn’t compelling and we qualified for the CDC Eviction Moratorium. This time, the landlord flouted the ruling by the judge and filed for eviction on June 3, 2021– a full 27 days before the CDC Eviction Moratorium was extended.

Since the CDC E.M. wasn’t specific enough -landlords can terminate leases and sue for eviction for “holding over,” many families like ours are at risk of losing shelter. Our family only has two unreliable cars–so driving a long distance to find another house outside the city where rents might be more reasonable is impossible. In our city, we weren’t given the opportunity to attend mediation. We are law-abiding, so why doesn’t our landlord have to abide by the same laws?

Landlord refuses to provide a reference, nor our perfect rental history—so every application for a new place is met with a resounding “NO”. We are mild, hard-working people. We keep the yard nice, and the house is in ok condition considering that our landlord fails to maintain her property. This past winter- she sold the house next door– while our family went without heat for 19 days.

Not all tenants are deadbeats and not all landlords should be above the law. This is the wrong time to force families to face homelessness. Thank you for reading my story. It’s a mess out here. If anyone has any property that needs work-we can work. We have already reached out to churches, charities, 211, strangers on the street and no one knows of anywhere for us to live. I even ask people if they have a bus, old rv, cottage or cabin, they would be willing to rent and nada…

We are a family of seven, so can’t just rent a one-bedroom apt without breaking the lease by having too many people use the space (plus- no reference). We aren’t on welfare and no one worked long enough to qualify for unemployment. Three of our kids lost their places at universities, too. We can garden, paint, landscape, clean. There has got to be some relief for families. The CDC should really extend the eviction moratorium for a year so people can catch their breath.

Susan H. B.CincinnatiOH

I have actually lost my home to the government THREE TIMES In my lifetime.

When I was in college, my grandmother added my name to the deed on her home, because she wanted to make sure I always had a place to live. She had lived through The Great Depression and she always maintained that a fully paid off home is a resource to keep, as housing can be lost easily during tough times. When she needed care in a nursing home, I had to relinquish the home to Medicaid to use for her care. I got nothing and had to move an apartment but I was 20 years old, in college, and knew nothing about how to address policies designed to take your home.

Fast forward to 1993, after 18 years of marriage and two children I went through a divorce- my husband got our home and even though we were co-owners, I did not get my share of our home and was homeless after the divorce. My husband kept the home, rented it out and made $1400 per month for the next 15 years, all the while not giving my the funds from my share of the home. The local Domestic Relations Court would do nothing about this.

I lived in apartments for some years, and in 1999 I moved into the home I was raised in which my parents bought in 1958 (the yr I was born), and took care of both of them until their death. They left me the home in their will. Unfortunately, my father had gotten a reverse mortgage on the home which was a predatory loan. They added $80,000 in interest to the original $60,000 my father borrowed, which totaled more than the home was worth.

The company that wrote the loan went out of business during the mortgage loan crises, and HUD took over the loan. When my mother died they gave me a year to get a loan for the total amount, which was much more than the home was worth. I was trying to get my credit score high enough to get the loan, but no one would loan me that much on the house, as it was over the value of it. So they took over the home, and I had to move AGAIN, with nothing. Because my parents owned the home for 60 years, and I had to empty it out I needed time to work on it, as I was working during the day, and trying to go through 60 years of items. I went to my local court to ask for more time to get rid of everything, and clean out what was there. The judge gave me another 30 days, and I was assured that if I was out by then, I would not have an eviction on my record. We (my daughter and I) were out of the house by two days before the given date, and I emailed the HUD attorney in Cleveland that we had vacated. This was in October of 2019.

In January of 2020, I was applying for an apartment and I was told my the manager that I had an Eviction on my Record, even though I was assured if I vacated the house by the due date I would not have. I have called all parties involved in this, and no one will do anything about this. I am told once an eviction is on the record, it will never come off. I am now trying to rent an apartment, and No One will rent to me because of that eviction.

This is just Wrong, and unjust. I was out by the due date, and I have my emails and other proofs to as evidence to support this. In addition, the HUD attorney did not notify Duke energy that they had taken over the house, and so I got an $800 plus utility bill for service from November 2019 through March 2020, even though I was no longer living in the house, and was no longer the owner, I have come to the conclusion that the policies of the government CREATE homelessness and do little to nothing to address it, or to correct errors on their part.

I am currently looking for a less expensive apartment, but no one will rent to me because of the eviction on my record. I am 63 years old, I work at a social service job, and have for the past 20 years, I do not use drugs or substances, I am an honest and hard working person, and I do my best to pay my bills although I am one of the working poor. That $800 Duke bill is akin to $8000 on my budget, and HUD will take no responsibility for not doing their due diligence in transferring the utilities. I tried to do it when I moved, and was informed by Duke Energy that I could not transfer it, that HUD had to contact them, so I emailed the attorney letting him know this. He did nothing, and then when I tried to get utilities in my name, I could not because they notified me of the bill for utilities for the house I no longer owned, or lived in at the time of service, and that HUD did own.

I am concerned that I will be homeless again, but I’m getting used to it. When I was first divorced, I thought that I would save up and buy another home, and have a home of my own, but I have given up ever owning my own home again, or even getting out of poverty. At my age, it is too difficult, if not impossible to dig out of poverty.

As a person working in social services, I can see no logical sense for the government policies and eviction laws that create homelessness. It does nothing for society in general, and what affects each person, affects our society as a whole, and our quality of life as a country.

The eviction laws in this country need to be changed. There needs to be some other process by which landlord/tenant issues can be addressed, as an Eviction almost guarantees that no one will rent to you, and you will end up homeless. This is an issue that I would gladly spend my time working to change, if I know how to go about it. I would volunteer if knew a group or some kind of organization that works to change this. No one should go through what I have had to go through.- NO ONE. It is a shameful part of life in this country that needs to be changed. I hope to see it changed in my lifetime, but I’m afraid I have little to no faith that it will change, as there are too many entities making money from this travesty, and too much greed on the part of landlords, and the Federal Government (HUD).

It has been made plain to me in my conversations with HUD that they could care less that they took my family home, or about the grief, and anxiety, and PTSD that having to leave it, and then being homeless because of the wrongful eviction that they put on my (and my disabled daughter’s records- she was living with me at the time). The only thing I have left in my life, are my children, and my faith in God. I certainly have none in the Department of Housing and Urban Development, or the government, or the courts.

Chasity D.TooeleUT

In Utah, Landlords are getting away with practically murder especially in Northern Utah. I learned recently Utah is considered , Utah Landlord friendly and boy is it. My kids and i were literally sabotaged by a landlord in a Government Subsidized apt property. (more…)

Pamela Ann C.HollyMI

I am a 69 yr old disabled senior in a handicapped apt almost 5 yrs. I have the MSHDA housing choice voucher. In feb..MSHDA sent a housing inspector out. Failed with 3 repairs needed. 2 were completed but not the 3rd. The inspector gave them a 2nd chance with a time period. They still didnt fix it so MSHDA quit paying thier part of my rent. (more…)