FILE - In this Dec. 11, 2020, file photo, Taylor Wood and her boyfriend, Ryan Bowser, talk to Wood's 10-year-old daughter, Freya Wood, in Corvallis, Ore. The family, which has been living in the apartment for more than two years, has missed three rent payments during the pandemic. As the economic effects of the coronavirus pandemic stretch into 2021, millions of U.S. renters are bracing for the possibility of having to show up in housing court to avoid getting evicted.
“The push for right to counsel preceded the pandemic, but it’s particularly acute and particularly urgent in light of the pandemic, given just the overall precarity that renters are facing,” said Gretchen Purser, an associate professor of sociology at Syracuse University who specializes in housing, homelessness and urban poverty.
The moratorium is what Zachary Kettering thought would protect him when he lost two jobs during the pandemic, fell behind on rent and received a notice in October to vacate his one-bedroom apartment in the Dallas suburb of McKinney. The new ordinance requires the city’s Department of Housing and Community Development to hire nonprofit legal organizations and calls for funding to help spread the word and educate tenants. It gives the city four years to fully implement the requirements.
The Stout report estimated that an investment of $5.7 million a year to get legal representation for Baltimore renters would result in $35.6 million in savings to the city and state on homeless shelters, Medicaid spending, school funding and foster care costs.
Serious question. Are the property owners exempt from their mortgage payments? If not, won't all of the renters still loose their lease when the properties are foreclosed due to non-payment of the mortgage? And obviously the owner also looses their home.
So landlords are just supposed to stop receiving rent?
DrHTheGMC Heartbreaking
EVERYONE of those effected should totally overload their district court. At cities expense mind ya
Some landlords are just people investing their retirement savings.
What can you buy with the stimulus check?
There is no justice in a system where justice depends on who has more money.. The issue is the greedy will almost always make the rules in that setup, which is exactly what has happened time and time again throughout history until the greedy collapse society.
Should of paid their rent for a year they had the extra money
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