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Lauren Peace

The state of Florida promised her help with rent. Then she was evicted

TAMPA, Fla. — Three days before Christmas, Catherine Owens found the pink notice taped to her door telling her she was being evicted from the Temple Terrace apartment she shared with her 58-year-old mother.

The women had five days to vacate, the notice said.

Owens, 30, had applied for rental assistance three months earlier through Florida’s emergency relief program, called Our Florida.

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