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UrduThe United States Supreme Court’s recent decision to allow evictions to resume could affect millions of Americans. On Monday, Attorney General Merrick Garland urged legal professionals to help address eviction filings expected to spike to nearly prepandemic levels. Students at…
Tag: eviction
WashU Expert: Aid package will only postpone inevitable housing crisis
As part of the new $900 billion federal stimulus package, the moratorium on evictions for renters will be extended by one month, through the end of January. The help could not come soon enough, said an expert on social and economic development at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis.However, without more intentional, long-term solutions and investments, this aid will only postpone an inevitable housing crisis, she said a new survey shows.
Eviction was a problem long before the pandemic’s arrival
BUFFALO, N.Y. – Although sweeping eviction bans issued during the COVID-19 pandemic by the federal and many state governments have temporarily halted the removal of unemployed tenants from their homes, the current public health crisis has actually amplified, rather than…
Homelessness and COVID-19
States across the country passed moratoriums on evictions to combat housing insecurity as the economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic became clear earlier this year. As the pandemic took hold, the country’s unemployment rate skyrocketed to its highest-ever level since…
WashU Expert: Eviction moratoriums are incomplete solution
Millions of tenants are at risk of eviction as protections in the CARES Act are set to expire. While the U.S. Congress and Senate are proposing plans to extend the federal moratorium on evictions, a finance expert at Washington University in St. Louis warns that is just one piece of the puzzle.