Sheila Ambert lies awake at night wondering if her family is about to get tossed out on the street.
“As a mother, you feel like you failed your kids,” Ambert says. “You don’t want them having to go through that or even knowing about it, which they do.”
Ambert thought she would be protected by an order issued back in September by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It’s supposed to stop people from getting evicted and forced into homeless shelters or crowded living situations where COVID spreads more easily.
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