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Overwhelmed state and local authorities are grappling with how to allocate $25 billion in federal rental relief, leaving many tenants and landlords waiting weeks or months for their share.

Policymakers must protect tenants from records that can effectively banish people from civil society.

With judges ruling against federal eviction ban, pressure mounts on Biden to distribute billions in aid to renters.

In order to design policies that could anticipate and prevent tenants from being evicted, the Eviction Lab analyzed the locations of evictions over time, hoping to detect a meaningful pattern.

With judges ruling against federal eviction ban, pressure mounts on Biden to distribute billions in aid to renters. The year-old federal moratorium — which has now been extended through June 30 — has probably kept hundreds of thousands or millions of people from being evicted from their apartments and homes. More than 10 million Americans […]

Building owners are making deals with struggling businesses. As one put it: “A half a loaf of bread is better than no loaf.”

Atlanta affordable housing landlord Marjy Stagmeier started the Star-C nonprofit and raised 9 million to help 3000 Americans avoid eviction.

A federal program designed to help people avoid eviction by paying their rent is running into an unexpected hurdle: Some landlords are turning down the payment, saying it comes with too many conditions.

Graves says many of her properties have cut services. If a security gate breaks, she says she doesn't have the $5,000 to fix it. The pools and fitness rooms at some of her properties are closed — she can't afford the extra cleaning and staff related to COVID-19. Then she says people who are paying […]

If there's one thing tenants and landlords agree on during this pandemic, it's that emergency rental assistance is sorely needed. Millions of Americans have been unable to pay their rent for months. And landlords, who have their own bills to pay, are also hurting.

Three judges just ruled against the CDC eviction ban. But it's taking time to deliver rental assistance, sparking fears of a wave of evictions. Judges in Texas, Ohio, and Tennessee ruled against eviction ban In Texas, U.S. District Judge John Campbell Barker said the CDC ban was unconstitutional. The emergency order issued by the Texas […]

Greg Brown, senior vice president for government affairs for the National Apartment Association, said many of his members have expressed frustration with residents who are unresponsive and don’t show up to court. The latest estimate for outstanding rental debt nationwide is $58 billion, averaging about $6,000 per renter, according to Brown. He said only $0.10 […]

Many rental properties are owned by individuals, not corporations. When rent isn’t paid, the inability to remove problem tenants has placed property owners’ own homes and financial stability in jeopardy. The lack of rental income has created a situation where property owners can’t afford to pay both the rental property mortgage and their own home […]

President Biden is coming under fire from housing advocates who say his administration is turning a blind eye as landlords seek to boot tens of thousands of cash-strapped renters from their homes

Without the help of an attorney, a tenant successfully convinced a judge that she was eligible for protection under a nationwide eviction moratorium.

You’ve told us your concerns about eviction through our texting service News414, so we talked to a panel of experts and got their advice. Here are our four main takeaways.

One problem with government emergency actions is that the political class never wants them to end. Witness the Biden Administration’s extension of the eviction and foreclosure moratoriums, which by now are creating more trouble than they’re worth.

The moratorium is not only harming landlords, but also encouraging residents to amass likely unpayable debts.

On March 28, three days before its scheduled expiration date, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (“CDC”) extended its nationwide eviction moratorium order (“CDC Moratorium”) through June 30, 2021.[1] The CDC took this action at nearly the same time that the Sixth Circuit—the first federal appellate court to weigh in on legal challenges to […]

Seeking shared public-private agenda. 45% of households are "cost burdened" by housing. More than 55% of renters and 31% of homeowners spend more than 30% of their household income on housing, a level the federal government and other agencies have labeled as “cost burdened.” The city has seen a 12% homeownership decline since 2005 and […]

(Click here to download the entire report.) I bought a home last year in Milwaukee’s Uptown neighborhood. It’s a nice place—one I’ve come to see as quintessentially Milwaukee. Kids walk to the playground at the end of the block. Adults walk to the coffeeshop. The mostly interwar-built houses are sturdily constructed on small lots. Typically, […]

New protections for St. Paul renters are likely to be found unconstitutional, a judge wrote Monday as he ordered the city to stop enforcing its ordinance while a lawsuit is pending. The ordinance, …

A common refrain – “I know a lot of landlords that are like ‘I’m not being a landlord in Illinois anymore, I’m going to other states because of the burdens that are put on the landlord,’ and the net effect of that is that there isn’t affordable housing,” Batinick said. “We need people to want […]

There is a lack of affordable housing in Milwaukee. That’s according to a new report released by the Wisconsin Policy Forum on Wednesday. The report also found that the city is in need of eviction prevention resources.

“When people lose their homes, it doesn’t affect just them,” Preckwinkle said. “Vacant and abandoned properties hurt whole neighborhoods by creating unsafe conditions and further disinvestment.”

From the NMHC: NMHC Rent Payment Tracker Finds 80.4 Percent of Apartment Households Paid Rent as of March 6 The National Multifamily Housin…

Rising rate headlines are nothing new, but there was a bit of a double whammy this week… or triple, depending on your point of view. Whammy 1: Highest Rates in a Year It's March 2021, and you'd now have to go back to March 2020 to see higher mortgage rates…

Everything is on ice. But when forbearance ends, forced sellers or lenders will put millions of these homes on the market.

Arkansas state Rep. Nicole Clowney, D-Fayetteville, introduced a bill Thursday that would repeal the state’s criminal “failure to vacate” statute. First enacted in 1901, the law allows landlords to seek criminal charges—which can result in jail time—for tenants who fall even a single day behind on rent and do not vacate a property within 10 […]