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Then the pandemic hit. Bell-Holt’s household swelled from five to 12, as she took in laid-off children, several friends and her toddler grandson. Monthly utilities swelled to over $2,000.
That meant trade-offs. She stayed current on the $2,700 rent. As before, she sent regular but partial utility payments: $500 here, $1,000 there. She used December stimulus payments to shrink the debt by $2,000.
Bell-Holt lives in the epicenter of California’s water debt crisis. While average debt is $500, at least 155,000 households mostly in Los Angeles owe over $1,000.
In her ZIP code, nearly half of households have water debt. Of those, one fifth owe more than $1,000.