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    Evicted And Homeless Due To Pandemic — 'I Literally Had To Sleep In My Car'

    Getting evicted during COVID can risk a person's health and doom their ability to find a home. The extension this week of a federal order preventing evictions could save many people from that fate.
    by Chris Arnold Mar 30, 2021 3 minutes
    Gregory Curry has had almost all his belongings in boxes and in a storage locker since he was evicted in August. He spent more than seven months struggling to survive financially and unable to find another landlord willing to rent to him.

    Getting evicted can hurt you in a bunch of different ways. You don't have to tell that to 57-year-old Gregory Curry in Dothan, Ala.

    "I'll be honest with you, I was petrified by this situation," Curry says. "What I've had to go through over this last year."

    Curry fell behind on rent after the furniture store where he was a salesman shut down due to COVID-19. His landlord filed an eviction case against him over the summer.

    Curry had nowhere to go. But there was no federal eviction moratorium in place at the time and

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