What happens when you lose your home at 72 in Amesbury Massachusetts

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A no fault eviction left 72 year old Judith with few options. She has lived most of her life in the Massachusetts towns of Amesbury and Newburyport, but a shortage of housing has fueled • record-high home prices across the state and she was unable to find an apartment she could afford. • The housing crisis is hitting older women in Massachusetts especially hard. • At UMass Boston, the Gerontology Institute found high housing costs have left the majority of Massachusetts women over the age of 65 economically vulnerable - the highest percentage of any state in the country. • Here's how Judith survived in her car for nearly a year, using water at a local cemetery to bathe and driving for everything she needed - from food to a bathroom. • Just before Christmas she finally found a new home with help from Community Teamwork Inc., a nonprofit based in Lowell, Massachusetts. • GBH News cameras captured her move as she unloaded kitchen supplies and welcomed her cat to their new home in Amesbury, Massachusetts. • Watch our new video about how demolishing strip malls can help solve Greater Boston's housing crisis: • How rebuilding strip malls could help... • See more from the GBH News Priced Out series here: https://www.wgbh.org/news/pricedout • Read the story here: • You can share your Priced Out story or ask a question you’d like answered by filling out this Google form: https://docs.google.com/forms/u/1/d/e... • GBH News is a premier source for in-depth local news and original story telling based in Boston, Massachusetts. • Subscribe to the GBH YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/gbhnews?sub... • Follow GBH News on Instagram: / gbhnews • Like GBH News on Facebook: / gbhnews • Follow GBH News on Twitter: / gbhnews • • We can’t do it without you. Support our award-winning community journalism by donating today: https://bit.ly/SupportGBHNews

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