Working as a waitress, Tirish Jacobs of Indianapolis was able to stretch her paycheck enough to rent a three-bedroom duplex, where she and her two children lived. But when the ceiling in her daughter’s bedroom collapsed in 2009, life began to spiral downward. Her children had to squeeze into a single bedroom, but her landlord rebuffed her pleas to repair the damage. So Jacobs quit paying the full amount of the monthly rent, since only two bedrooms were usable. By the time she was served the eviction order, Jacobs was suffering under such stress that her debilitating Crohn’s disease had flared up again. She coordinated the move to a new home from her hospital bed ...
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