She moved in with a former client about an hour northeast of Las Vegas. She got behind on the $1,083 monthly rent on her one-bedroom apartment, and owing $12,489 in back rent was evicted in March. Her business fell apart she sold her car and applied for food stamps. That evaporated during the pandemic-triggered shutdown in March 2020. Jackson worked for nearly two decades building a loyal clientele as a massage therapist in Las Vegas, which has seen one of the country’s biggest jumps in eviction filings. Housing courts are again filling up and ensnaring the likes of 79-year-old Maria Jackson. Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, urging Congress to pass a bill cracking down on illegal evictions, fund legal help for tenants and keep evictions off credit reports. “The disturbing rise of evictions to pre-pandemic levels is an alarming reminder of the need for us to act - at every level of government - to keep folks safely housed,” said Democratic U.S. Much of that has been spent or allocated, and calls for additional resources have failed to gain traction in Congress. There was also $46.5 billion in federal Emergency Rental Assistance that helped tenants pay rent and funded other tenant protections. The federal government, as well as many states and localities, issued moratoriums during the pandemic that put evictions on hold most have now ended. Many vulnerable tenants would have been evicted long ago if not for a safety net created during the pandemic. There are few places for displaced tenants to go, with the National Low Income Housing Coalition estimating a 7.3 million shortfall of affordable units nationwide. By December, eviction filings were nearly back to pre-pandemic levels.Īt the same time, rent prices nationwide are up about 5% from a year ago and 30.5% above 2019, according to the real estate company Zillow. The latest data mirrors trends that started last year, with the Eviction Lab finding nearly 970,000 evictions filed in locations it tracks - a 78.6% increase compared to 2021, when much of the country was following an eviction moratorium. Nashville was 35% higher and Phoenix 33% higher in May Rhode Island was up 32% in May.
Paul, rates rose 106% in March, 55% in April and 63% in May. Landlords file around 3.6 million eviction cases every year.Īmong the hardest-hit are Houston, where rates were 56% higher in April and 50% higher in May. “Across the country, low-income renters are in an even worse situation than before the pandemic due to things like massive increases in rent during the pandemic, inflation and other pandemic-era related financial difficulties.”Įviction filings are more than 50% higher than the pre-pandemic average in some cities, according to the Eviction Lab, which tracks filings in nearly three dozen cities and 10 states.
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