Experts predict the eviction surge will worsen in the coming weeks, with 30 million unemployed and uncertainty whether Congress will extend the extra $600 in weekly unemployment benefits that expired Friday. The federal eviction moratorium that protects more than 12 million renters living in...Continue reading >
Michigan’s COVID-19 Eviction Diversion and Rental Assistance Program is available in Berrien County through Emergency Shelter Services, said Mary LaSata Spiegel, the managing attorney with Legal Aid of Western Michigan, who is helping coordinate the program locally. She said that renters have to...Continue reading >
The head of the New Orleans legal aid office says calls for help from people who have lost their jobs have increased more than 600 percent. They are also being deluged with hundreds of calls from people who are being evicted. Federal unemployment benefits are running out this week and attorneys...Continue reading >
A federal eviction moratorium expired last week, and housing attorneys are concerned about a potential surge in evictions across Texas during the COVID-19 pandemic. Evictions are already resuming in many parts of Texas, leaving unemployed renters with few options and undocumented immigrants with...Continue reading >
One in five renters is at risk of eviction by the fall, with the undocumented, people of color and low-income renters most vulnerable, according to the report. "I expect that we are going to see a lot of families thrust into homelessness right as we are starting the school year, which is fraught...Continue reading >
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ latest extension of the state’s eviction moratorium — this time to Sept. 1 — merely delays an inevitable day of reckoning, according to advocates for both renters and landlords. When that comes, judges will begin signing stacks of eviction orders, sheriff’s deputies will...Continue reading >
After living there for seven years, and amid the coronavirus pandemic, Gower was evicted from the house and moved out with only some of her belongings last week. She's now staying at a North Canton hotel, unsure of what her future holds. Gower said she began struggling to pay her $575 rent shortly...Continue reading >
Some landlords refuse to accept rental assistance that would prevent their tenants’ evictions for a month or longer. A legal aid attorney and two service providers told Big If True that some landlords never followed the rule in the first place and filed evictions in violation of the CARES Act. “The...Continue reading >
The Legal Aid Society of Cleveland and Community Legal Aid in Akron — continuously face tough decisions of who to help and who to turn away because of finite resources. The requests for help have only picked up in recent months, and the situation could become even direr in the future. That's why...Continue reading >
The COVID-19 pandemic has stretched rural legal resources even thinner because of massive unemployment, benefits issues, looming evictions, and other problems that require lawyers, said one panelist, Lauren Sudeall, director of the Georgia State University College of Law’s Center for Access to...Continue reading >
