Washington state owes a big debt to its eviction moratorium. But now the bill is coming due
Like most tenants, Amy March has her complaints about the place she's renting.
There's the bathroom sink, broken for over a year, that's forced her family to wash their hands in the bathtub instead. There was a busted pipe that flooded their basement for three days. There are the "complete addicts" living nearby.
Yet, for all this, what really scares her is that she and her family might be forced to leave. She knows what the alternative is. The 40-year-old has lived it.
She spent a year and a half homeless — March, her girlfriend, March's autistic son and her high-school-aged daughter — spread across three tents set up in a friend's backyard. They survived, despite her son's seizures and her fibromyalgia neuropathy and the windstorms and blizzards. They adapted, piled on blankets and ran an extension cord from her friend's house to a $5 Walmart space heater so they didn't "freeze too much."
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(Spokane Inlander)