- The most comprehensive study yet of the federal response to the pandemic shows huge but temporary benefits for the poor — and helps frame a larger debate over the role of government.
- Six reasons why cities and states have done a poor job getting the money out the door. Over the course of the pandemic, Washington allotted a lot of money to help tenants who couldn’t keep up with the rent: $46.6 billion. That’s almost twice as much as, and on top of, what the government usually […]
- Eviction rates in Wisconsin have been declining recently, according to state data, reaching their lowest level last month since May 2020. But those figures are expected to spike as the federal ban on evictions expires at the end of July.
- The pace is picking up, but state and local officials have still only distributed a sliver of the renters aid allocated by Congress.
- The second meeting is set for July 21, 10 days before the final eviction moratorium from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention expires White House officials said there is also an accountability goal: The hope is that a second meeting will motivate cities to actually follow through on their commitments.
- The "nation's largest poor city" has adopted one of the most aggressive eviction diversion efforts in the U.S., in an effort one city council member said she hopes will remain post-pandemic.
- Around 176,000 renter households had received assistance by the end of May, according to government data. However, more than 11 million renters are behind. “Public officials are more concerned about so-called scammers getting this money than they are about the people who truly need it, so they have made it nearly impossible for anyone to […]
- There's a space inside Milwaukee's Community Advocates' brick building on North James Lovell Street that will soon operate as the Milwaukee Rental Housing Resource Center.
- A landlords’ lobbyist said it sued the U.S. government to recover damages the organization claims its members suffered as a result of a federal moratorium on evictions. The National Apartment Association filed the lawsuit Tuesday at the U.S. Court of Federal Claims in Washington, the organization said in a statement. The complaint wasn’t immediately available […]
- What would you think if the government dictated that you won’t be paid for more than a year but you must keep working? As unlikely as you might consider such a scenario, this hypothetical is Howard Iten’s reality. Iten, a commercial landlord in Los Angeles, is under Los Angeles County’s pandemic-driven mandate to continue running […]
- The CDC eviction moratorium is set to end July 31 and Wisconsin housing advocates fear a "tsunami" of evictions across the state. “We’re expecting a wave of evictions, eviction apocalypse, eviction tsunami, whatever you want to call it,” Amara Lang, a member of the Milwaukee Autonomous Tenants Union (MATU), says.
- A federal appeals court ruled Friday that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) exceeded its authority by temporarily halting evictions amid the pandemic.
- The 12 groups – which includes NAR, bankers and landlords – applauded pandemic efforts but said it’s time for the eviction ban to end as scheduled on June 30, 2021.
- The government and media relied on studies plagued by shoddy statistics to make the case for blocking evictions during the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Yesterday, Virginia’s Secretary of Finance Aubrey Layne informed the Virginia House of Delegates’ Appropriations Committee that the Commonwealth of Vi
- An Atlanta-based federal appeals court on Wednesday dealt another blow to landlords seeking to end a nationwide eviction freeze put in place amid the pandemic.
- The Supreme Court’s decision to leave in place the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s unlawful, unconstitutional eviction moratorium poses a threat to the rule of law, federalism, and fundamental constitutional rights. Justice Brett Kavanaugh perplexingly agreed with the court majority to leave this moratorium in place, despite acknowledging that the CDC’s edict is indeed […]
- It could, if it actually had the vast public health powers that the Biden administration claims it does.
- During the pandemic, states are continuing to deduct money from tax refunds to collect delinquent debts, burdening those who have suffered the most from the COVID-19 recession.
- Check out Zumper's National Rent Report for the latest insights and rental trends in the top 100 cities in the U.S.
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- The pandemic amplified the chronic shortage of affordable housing.
- The survey shows half of America’s individual rental home owners have residents who have missed payments since March 2020.
- In Philadelphia, homes in primarily Black neighborhoods are undervalued by an average of about $26,000, or 27%, compared with similar homes in primarily white neighborhoods.
- New polling shows strong bipartisan support for policies including expunging or sealing eviction records and restricting their use.
- The coronavirus pandemic precipitated an economic crisis disproportionately affecting renter households. Attempting to prevent a surge in evictions, policy make…
- Stimulus checks have long been spent and the most comprehensive eviction and foreclosure moratoria are about to disappear entirely.
- A state of housing report from the Metropolitan Housing Coalition highlights effects of the coronavirus pandemic on Black residents in Louisville.