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Embed Barbara Gaught stands outside the home shes now renting in Billings, Mont. with her five-year-old son Blazen and their dog Arie on March 27, 2021. Gaught and her family were evicted from the mobile home they had owned outright and lived in for 16 years because they fell behind on lot rent for the little plot of land under the mobile home. Louise Johns/NPR toggle caption Louise Johns/NPR Barbara Gaught stands outside the home shes now renting in ...

Losing It All: Mobile Home Owners Evicted Over Small Debts During Pandemic By Chris Arnold  April 16, 2021 It was a pretty brutal holiday season for Barbara Gaught in Billings, Montana. Back in December, just a week before Christmas, she got an eviction notice. “It was at like six thirty at night that a sheriff came and taped a notice on the door,” she says. “On a Friday night.” Gaught hadn’t responded to a court summons the month before. She didn’t think she could be evicted so...