Housing bills aim to reduce evictions, housing discrimination

"Ashley Hempe, 29, knows firsthand how demoralizing the process of being evicted can be.

“I was working as a waitress at the time and didn’t even have money to rent a truck to move. The sheriff showed up at my house and had to put almost all of our stuff out on the sidewalk,” said Hempe, who had one child and was pregnant with a second at the time.

According to Hempe, the eviction process started after she demanded the landlord address mold issues and fix an upstairs toilet that leaked into her kitchen. She spent the next six months homeless before slowly getting back on her feet..."

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