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Donna Harvey spent some of this summer’s hottest days searching for a place to live.
Beginning July 1, she knew city marshals could show up at her Jamaica home any day to evict her. So, she texted a long list of landlords. She trekked to the Bronx to seek help at a housing intake center. And with her 4-year-old son in tow, she checked into a shelter in Queens that was so sweltering she and her son couldn’t sleep…