Evictions Spike, Across the United States , As Protections Disappear.
ABC reports that eviction filings nationwide
have steadily risen in recent months to
approach or exceed pre-pandemic levels.
I really think this is the tip of the iceberg.
Our numbers of evictions are increasing
every month at an astonishing rate, and I just
don’t see that abating any time soon, Shannon MacKenzie, executive director of Colorado Poverty Law Project, via ABC.
Amid the pandemic, moratoriums on evictions
and $46.5 billion in federal Emergency
Rental Assistance kept millions housed.
Now that most of those housing measures have ended, several cities are above, historic eviction averages. .
According to The Eviction Lab, , Minneapolis-St. Paul's eviction rate, was 91% higher in June. .
Meanwhile, Las Vegas was up 56%,
Hartford, Connecticut, was up 32%
and Jacksonville, Florida, was up 17%.
Officials in Maricopa County say that eviction
filings in July were the highest in 13 years.
According to Zillow,
compared to the same time in 2019,
the cost of rent is up almost 25%.
Data from the Census Bureau shows
that rental vacancy rates have also
declined to a 35-year low of just 5.8%.
Data from the Census Bureau shows
that rental vacancy rates have also
declined to a 35-year low of just 5.8%.
Landlords are raising the rent
and making it very unaffordable
for tenants to stay, Marie Claire Tran-Leung, the eviction initiative project director for the National Housing Law Project, via ABC.
Without more protections in place,
which not all states have, a lot of those
families will be rendered homeless, Marie Claire Tran-Leung, the eviction initiative project director for the National Housing Law Project, via ABC