Evicted



One-year-old Chase Milam watches as a sheriff’s deputy and a member of an eviction team remove possessions from his aunt’s home in Milliken, Colorado. His aunt, Brandie Barbiere, whose child-care business had dropped by more than half, had stopped making mortgage payments 11 months earlier. Americans experienced the fifth year of a national housing crisis. By the end of 2011, some four million families had lost their homes after they could no longer meet mortgage payments. People renting houses often found themselves in a similar situation, no longer able to afford the rent and facing eviction. In Colorado, eviction teams supervised by a deputy from the county sheriff’s office arrive with court orders, and clear the contents of a house onto the street. Families have 24 hours to remove their possessions.



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