Eviction Filings Increase , As Pandemic Rental Aid , Programs End.
NPR reports that emergency rental aid
helped millions of people keep their
homes amid the COVID-19 pandemic. .
This summer, the end of that federal program
is expected to have allocated the entire
$46 billion provided by Congress. .
As a result of funds already running out
in some places, eviction filings are spiking.
NPR points out that these support programs
are running out of funding amid skyrocketing
housing costs and record inflation. .
So far, aid programs in Minnesota,
California, Connecticut, New Jersey
and Texas have already shut down. .
Our tenants are having to decide
between buying food for their children
or their elderly parents, or paying rent.
And that's a real tight squeeze, Dana Karni, Lone Star Legal Aid in Houston, via NPR.
Our tenants are having to decide
between buying food for their children
or their elderly parents, or paying rent.
And that's a real tight squeeze, Dana Karni, Lone Star Legal Aid in Houston, via NPR.
Eviction rates have been on the rise since the national moratorium on evictions ended last August. .
Diane Yentel, who heads the National Low Income Housing
Coalition, warns that the current state of affairs threatens
to leave many people "one financial shock" away
from potential eviction or even homelessness. .
The longer we go past the time
the eviction protections or resources
are gone, the more we're seeing in some
of these cities, eviction filing rates reach
150%, 200% of pre-pandemic averages, Diane Yentel, Heads of the National Low
Income Housing Coalition, via NPR.
Yentel points out that even before the pandemic,
millions of low-income households were already
using at least half of their income for rent. .
According to Redfin,
the cost of rent has risen
17% in the last year alone.