“You are a Godsend,” the email began.
The message sent earlier this month to Eleanor Benavidez – who manages the city’s Alamosa Health & Social Service Center in Southwest Albuquerque – vividly detailed one woman’s financial anxiety as well as her gratitude for assistance received through Alamosa’s eviction prevention program.
“I’ve had hives, and looks like shingles from all the stress of not knowing where to go to get help and not knowing if I would get help. So you don’t know the feeling I am having right now. Thank you so much for helping me,” the client wrote in an email shared with the Journal. “I hope your holidays will be wonderful just as mine is going to be knowing I won’t get evicted and that I still have a roof over my head and electricity.”
With eight days to go before the expiration of the statewide eviction moratorium on Dec. 31, Gov. Jay Inslee announced Wednesday he would once again extend the ban on evictions
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A woman waits in line at Catholic Charities Spanish Catholic Center parking lot in Washington July 15, 2020, to pick up free food supplies. Since the start of the coronavirus pandemic in March, Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Washington has served hundreds of thousands of meals to people in need across all of its food programs. (CNS photo/Chaz Muth)
The Croton-Cortlandt Food Pantry, hosted at Holy Name of Mary Church in Croton, N.Y., had adapted its distribution scheme to match the times. In the days before the coronavirus, the pantry’s offerings were laid out like a small neighborhood grocery; its weekly clients were free to pick out the food items they wanted.