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Speaker 1: Of all the things that can happen to a family,

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Speaker 1: being thrown out of their home is one of the worst.

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Speaker 2: And so when a family is evicted, it completely uproots

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Speaker 2: them and it can affect the children's ability to attend school.

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Speaker 1: The one doing the evicting is usually a landlord or

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Speaker 1: management company. But when properties in Boston wants to try

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Speaker 1: something else, they've started an eviction prevention pilot program. It

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Speaker 1: lets some Boston renters promise to pay back a small

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Speaker 1: portion of their rent in exchange for a clean slate.

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Speaker 1: Now this isn't entirely goodness of the heart motivated. Eleia

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Speaker 1: Pacoma is with Urban Edge, the program's landlord.

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Speaker 3: It would cost us a lot more to evict someone

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Speaker 3: than to keep them housed in a stable environment.

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Speaker 1: In other words, the thinking is that the landlord benefits

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Speaker 1: if people stay housed. Part of the deal is that

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Speaker 1: the tenants learn financial literacy. The goal is to enroll

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Speaker 1: three hundred families by the end of the year. Kyle

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Speaker 1: Schaffel to be busy Boston's news radio