An eviction is an incredibly time consuming and stressful event.

I wasn't crazy but it is incredibly stressful.

You lose your home, you are much more likely to lose your job the year following. The reason for that comes back to the bandwidth problem: You're so focused on this event that you're making mistakes at work; you can relocate further from work, which can increase your tardiness and absenteeism and cause you to lose your job.

Young mothers who apply for housing assistance in our nation's capital literally could be grandmothers by the time their application is reviewed.

It takes a good amount of time and money to establish a home. Eviction can erase all that.

These days, there are sheriff squads whose full-time job is to carry out eviction and foreclosure orders. There are moving companies specializing in evictions, their crews working all day, every weekday.