Name: A man died by suicide during an eviction. Denver's systems weren't built to save him
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A man died by suicide during an eviction. Denver's systems weren't built to save him

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Like most of the 2.45 million tenants evicted nationwide since mid-March of 2020, Darrius Davis couldn’t afford rent.

Darrius Davis’ phone rang around 9 p.m. on the last Thursday in October 2022.

“You’re good on rent, son?” his mom Jenifer Davis asked on the other end of the line. Over the past few months, Darrius, 25, had needed her help, and she and others in the family had delivered.

“Yeah, Mom,” Darrius answered, ignoring the eviction letters stuffed between books, under the couch and on the closet shelf in the home where he recorded the podcast “Just a Regular Guy.” On the show, he...

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