BALTIMORE — Angela Banks remembers it was a brief phone call. Her landlord told her she needed to leave as soon as possible. He was selling the three-story rowhome in Poppleton — her home for decades — to the city of Baltimore to make way for a new development.
It was wintertime in 2018. Banks and her five children moved into her green Ford Explorer. At night, they rolled up the windows, put on two pairs of pants and piled clothes on themselves to keep warm. During the day she begged for gas money.
“I lost everything. Everything I worked hard for and everything that I had, I lost,” Banks said. “Didn’t take nothing except trash bags and clothes.”
