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   Deborah Self couldn’t stand the sound of her ringtone any longer.   
   She silenced it last week, easing the dread of yet another call from   
   a Coloradan on the verge of eviction. She didn’t need the shrill   
   notification to do her job. Someone in need is always on the other   
   line. Her phone rarely leaves her ear.   
      
   Self, a housing navigator at Colorado Housing Connects, works from   
   home answering some 50 calls a day to help people search for   
   affordable housing, rental assistance, or tenant and landlord   
   mediation. The organization has seen a nearly 60% spike in calls   
   from the same time last year.   
      
   “There’s a whole range of emotions when people call,” Self said. “A   
   lot of people are crying. There are occasionally people who are   
   angry and they direct it toward us, but it’s nothing to do with us.   
   I’m pretty good at de-escalating. I try to calm them down and see   
   what we can do to help.”   
      
      
      
   Drew Hamrick, senior vice president for the Colorado Apartment   
   Association, said increasing evictions were a “return to normality”   
   after the acute pandemic emergency “artificially depressed”   
   displacement. He said housing advocates’ fears of “eviction   
   tsunamis” were overblown and that the state typically averages   
   between 3,500 and 4,000 filings a month — as it is now. Landlords,   
   he said, need a way to recover their properties from tenants who   
   can’t or won’t pay.   
      
   https://www.denverpost.com/2023/10/06/denver-colorado-evictions-   
   housing-affordable/   
      
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