DOVER — Bang! Bang! Bang! The sheriff pounded on Leon Bolden's apartment door. He'd just lain on the couch after being discharged from the Behavioral Health Unit at Portsmouth Regional Hospital, where he had been admitted after attempting to take his own life.

"You got five minutes to get your things and get out," the sheriff said.

That's when Bolden became homeless. It was August 2023.

"I couldn't do anything. I just took a book bag, ... I put what I could in my car. Everything else there I just left," said Bolden, now 44, describing the moment in his Seabrook apartment.

"Everything that I worked to build there, bed, furniture, TV, electronics, I didn't have nowhere to put that stuff. That was it. That was the beginning of me being homeless."

Two years later, in 2025, Bolden is fee

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