Mary Collins started to panic in March when she heard people beating on her door at the Cedar Run Apartments in southeast Denver.

The 57-year-old was up-to-date on her rent, but she was late paying her utilities and an assortment of fees covering pest control, property taxes, trash, sewer and common-area maintenance.

Collins is disabled and cannot work. She has a Housing Choice, or Section 8, voucher , which means the Denver Housing Authority pays 100% of her rent and provides an allowance to cover utilities.

But that allowance doesn’t cover all the fees, so Collins is perpetually worried about how to make up the difference.

And eviction threats keep pounding at her door.

“I’m so depressed,” she said. “I don’t know where to turn.”

Colorado law prohibits landlords from evicting pe

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