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“You are a Godsend,” the email began. The message sent earlier this month to Eleanor Benavidez – who manages the city’s Alamosa Health & Social Service Center in Southwest Albuquerque – vividly detailed one woman’s financial anxiety as well as her gratitude for assistance received through Alamosa’s eviction prevention program. “I’ve had hives, and looks like shingles from all the stress of not knowing where to go to get help and not knowing if I would get help. So you don’t know the feeling I am having right now. Thank you so much for helping me,” the client wrote in an email shared with the Journal. “I hope your holidays will be wonderful just as mine is going to be knowing I won’t get evicted and that I still have a roof over my head and electricity.” ....