Third Place
John Moore
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"EVICTED"
Americans struggled through their fifth year of the national housing crisis, with almost three million homeowners having lost their properties during that time. Often overlooked are the millions more families unable to make rent payments and eventually evicted from their homes. Colorado had the tenth highest rate nationally for home foreclosures and evictions. County sheriff's deputies arrive to tennants' homes with a court order to give the bad news. With the deputy supervising, an eviction team, usually hired by a bank, removes all household possessions from the homes - and deposits them outside near the street. The families must leave the premises immediately and they have 24 hours to collect their belongs from outside - or the state will do it for them. *** Julie Holzhauer reacts after a sheriff's deputy arrived to serve an eviction order to remove her family from their home on September 15, 2011 in Centennial, Colorado. The family of five was evicted after they had earlier fallen behind in a rent payment, and the owner sued for their removal. Julie's husband John Holzhauer, a home building contractor, said he lost up to 40 percent of his business due to the weak economy and continued housing crisis. |
