Is There Such a Thing as a Humane Eviction?
The Great Read Is There Such a Thing as a Humane Eviction? As a bulge of evictions looms, a Massachusetts sheriff is searching for ways to soften the blow. A sheriff places a notice to quit, the first stage in an eviction process, in the door of an apartment in Springfield, Mass.Credit...Bryan Anselm for The New York Times CHICOPEE, Mass. — The tenants in the third-floor apartment had 30 minutes to leave. Deputies from the Hampden County Sheriff’s Department — in black uniforms, with bulletproof vests and gold star badges — had climbed the back stairs with an eviction notice. The tena...