On a Tuesday afternoon in March, Holly Harris slid onto a long wooden bench inside a downtown Las Vegas courtroom. Cradling a colorful stack of papers, she braced for what seemed inevitable.
A hearing officer would soon decide whether to evict the 31-year-old and her four children from their apartment. Outside, in the family’s silver minivan, her mother watched two of her babies as Harris flipped through the pages of eviction notices, maintenance requests and paystubs documenting the most recent months of her tenancy.
