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Samuel McCurin and his son were evicted from their South Sacramento apartment in August. With the loss of his apartment, he also lost a maintenance job he had at the complex.
The single 44-year-old father says he believes he shouldn’t have been evicted, but regardless, the upheaval to his and his son’s life has been significant.
McCurin said that as a result of eviction, his young son was separated from his friends, tutor and immediate community within the apartment complex.
Now, he and his son live with his sisters that run a board and care, and he also sometimes sleeps in his car, whenever his son goes to see his mother. “This is our new home,” McCurin said.
Millions of Americans are threatened with evictions each year, with the most at risk being children, studies from Eviction Lab have found. From 2007 to 2016, 2.9 million children faced the threat of eviction each year.