- With a new housing relief initiative launched alongside NAACP, Beyoncé is acting faster than the government to handle the rent crisis during Covid-19.
- (2021). Spatial Relationship Between Eviction Filings, Neighborhood Characteristics, and Proximity to the Central Business District: A Case Study of Salt Lake County, Utah. Housing Policy Debate. Ahead of Print.
- We then examine the relationship between post-foreclosure single-family rentals, large corporate landlords that invested in bank-owned homes, and eviction rates. In a cross-sectional regression of single- family rentals, we find that overall, post-foreclosure homes are 58 percent more likely to have an eviction filing than single-family rentals with no foreclosure history. Foreclosure-driven housing insecurity of […]
- The Act prioritizes assistance for households that have income totaling less than half the area median household income or where an individual within the household has been unemployed for over 90 days. However, any household can seek rental assistance under the Act if one or more individuals in the household have qualified for unemployment benefits, […]
- If Democrats take control of the Senate, a number of relief measures for renters struggling amid the pandemic will have a better chance of happening.
- The Tenant Resource Center says locally about 15,000 household are experiencing low income and and owe back rent. Sereno says many of these families are four to six months behind on rent and tens of millions in back rent is owed in Dane County alone.
- Thousands of tenants, chosen through a lottery, would get up to $2,000 in free rent money, paid directly to their landlord. Katz’s name was chosen. But before the city distributes the money, landlords must agree to not raise rent for one year. Katz’s landlord said no.
- Beyoncé will offer $5,000 grants to help people facing foreclosures or evictions due to the housing crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
- Apartment landlord groups say that the latest coronavirus stimulus package from Congress offers a much-needed infusion of public funding, but it fails to adequately address the full scope of the challenges facing struggling tenants and property owners. Included in the $900 billion proposal is $25 billion in dedicated rental assistance as well as a one-month […]
- Harris County Judge Pct. 4 Lincoln Goodwin donated his personal money to help families who are being evicted during the pandemic.
- The government’s ban on bailiff-enforced evictions is just a “sticking plaster” and not a long-term answer to the problems afflicting landlords and tenants. In response, Beadle says: “The repossessions ban is a sticking plaster that will ultimately lead to more people losing their homes. It means tenants’ debts will continue to mount to the point […]
- New York’s politicians have rushed to safeguard tenants during the pandemic and lockdowns, with multiple protections against eviction and guarantees that you don’t have to pay rent — Lawmakers need to address this mess before the city returns to the bad old days of housing abandonment: The 1970s saw building owners ignore basic maintenance, quit […]
- “This pandemic affected landlords in a horrible way, just like renters,” said Galina Volchkova, housing director for the Dispute Resolution Center through Volunteers of America (VOA). “The eviction moratorium was a great thing, it was a stress relief for many renters. … But it also was putting a patch on the issue, because it would […]
- In Tucson, a group of constables went rogue and stopped enforcing evictions. Later, Randall told me, “The threat of the constable was being wielded as a weapon against (tenants).” Her voice hardened. “I don’t like being used as a threat.”
- One thing that's different for landlords under the governor's eviction ban is this: "If the homeowner is facing a very real threat of foreclosure, they can go ahead and move forward with an eviction process," said Bailey Bortolin, Nevada Legal Aid Policy Director.
- However, opponents say there are flaws with the new bill, like not having a process to verify an individual's claim that they are facing financial hardship. Republican senator George Amedore raised the question to the bill's sponsor Democratic senator Brian Kavanagh during the special session. "There is no process contemplated during the four months that […]
- Democrat Assemblywoman Marianne Buttenschon sent a release immediately following the Governor signing the bill. Buttenschon believes that the passage of this law may give irresponsible and malicious tenants the 'free pass' to not pay rent. She said in her release, "the Tenant Safe Harbor Act already protects tenants financially impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic from […]
- The new year was supposed to bring an end to the nationwide moratorium on evictions during the coronavirus pandemic, but the relief package extends that moratorium to the end of January. Gov. Roy Cooper also signed an executive order last week blocking any eviction proceedings until at least February. “I have several owners who are […]
- When Joe Biden won the 2020 election, there was a significant hurdle between the president-elect and some real estate reforms he wanted: a Republican Senate. That changed Wednesday when two Democrats won Senate seats in Georgia. Biden’s proposals have a better chance of making it to the floor with Democrats holding half of Senate seats, […]
- And why that's bad news for the future of affordable housing in American cities Problems with eviction moratorium policies are twofold. First, not all landlords are alike. Large, wealthy real estate firms and development conglomerates don’t control the entire market: In fact, just over half of the U.S. rental supply, about 25.8 million units, are […]
- Americans who default on their rent may find it hard to escape lasting effects on their financial future.That’s why it’s so important to think now about how we might disrupt that cycle. One possible solution is to make it easier for financial records to be expunged from the databases of courts and data brokers, borrowing […]
- Lucas knows firsthand what no rent means. “We’re not talking about water bills. We’re not talking about cleaning, grass cutting, snow removal, all of the other expenses related to the building that housing providers rely on the rent that’s coming in in order to do those things,” she said. Under this legislation landlords would agree […]
- The new federal stimulus package allocates $25 billion for further rental assistance and extends the eviction moratorium until Jan. 31, 2021. While local landlords say they appreciate the help, they also say their tenants are taking advantage of the assistance and the moratorium. One landlord said it is time for landlords to be made whole. […]
- Landlords, especially individual landlords who own fewer than 10 properties, are bracing for tough times ahead: the COVID-19 pandemic is dragging on, the $600 a week in extra unemployment benefits
- "It's rooted in the belief that if we provide the knowledge, networks, and capital to residents of Allentown, they have the innate ability to become successful entrepreneurs," said Yusuf Dahl, cofounder of the program and Director of Lafyette College’s Dyer Center of Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Yusuf’s own story took him from prison to Princeton University, […]
- Lenders have granted struggling building owners months of forbearance, avoiding fire sales. But even as vaccines herald the slow return to normal life, it’s increasingly clear the fundamentals of real estate have been altered. Next year, many property owners who’ve fallen behind on debt are going to have to put more money into their buildings, […]