DENVER — Five years ago, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Zach Neumann helped start the Community Economic Defense Project to help Denver metro families facing eviction or foreclosure.
“Most families in our community are a $400 or $500 emergency away from not being able to pay rent and facing eviction,” he told Denver7 Friday. “And that’s really scary.”
That help is even more needed now. As Neumann points out, “this problem just keeps getting worse and worse every single year.”
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