The 108-Degree Eviction
The article details the eviction of a vulnerable, heat-sensitive woman and her daughter in Las Vegas during a record-breaking heat wave. It explores the intersection of housing instability and the life-threatening risks posed by extreme climate conditions.
Why it matters
It highlights the human cost of housing insecurity when exacerbated by the increasing frequency of extreme weather events.
Living outside is a more dreadful prospect during a heat wave.
Mikayla Whitmore for The Atlantic August 10, 2026, 7 AM ET Share Save On any other day when the high was forecast to be 108 degrees, Susie Tyson would not have left her Las Vegas apartment. The stroke she’d had at 30 made her sensitive to the heat, she found; at 67, going out during Nevada’s hottest months would make her dizzy, nauseous, and, in her words, “hurting everywhere.” But on June 17, she had no choice. That morning, a Clark County constable came to evict her and her daughter Shelby from the apartment they’d lived in for nearly 20 years.
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