Las Vegas mother of 3 facing eviction receives more than $200K in donations after CNN story
A Las Vegas mother of three facing eviction while the nation’s eviction mandate ended over $200,000 was raised after a GoFundMe to assistance her family in their time of need.
Dasha Kelly was recently interviewed by CNN where she said she and her three kids were facing eviction. Kelly told the news outlet, “freaked (her) out” when they knocked on her Las Vegas apartment door. “I’m not going to lie,” Kelly said, “because I’m really thinking they’re coming at any moment.”
During an interview with CNN’s Erin Burnett, Kelly, a former casino employee who had been unemployed since the pandemic, was informed how much money was raised on her behalf.
“I just want to tell everybody thank you so much,” Kelly said as she cried. “I’m still in denial.”
The mother and her three daughters — 8-year-old Sharron, Kia, who’s 6, and Imani, 5 were featured in an in-depth story about the end of the eviction moratorium the previous day following the successful efforts of California Rep. Maxine Waters and Rep. Cori Bush of Missouri. The White House put pressured the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to issue new guidelines for communities struggling with rising positive COVID-19 testing rates due to the delta variant.
About 90% of the country will be covered by the ban, according to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.
CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said in a statement it’s “imperative that public health authorities act quickly to mitigate such an increase of evictions, which could increase the likelihood of new spikes in SARS-CoV-2 transmission.”