St. Louis has 126 eviction orders pending, waiting for the end of the moratorium that protected tenants from being expelled from their residences during the coronavirus pandemic, St. Louis Sheriff Vernon Betts said.
Betts said he expects to increase his staffing to keep up. His office plans to handle 30 evictions per day starting on August 9. The Biden administration announced Thursday it would allow the ban to expire, arguing its hands were tied after the U.S."Struggling renters are now facing a health crisis and an eviction crisis," said Alicia Mazzara, a senior research analyst at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
More than 15 million people live in households that owe as much as $20 billion to their landlords, according to the Aspen Institute. As of July 5, roughly 3.6 million people in the U.S. said they faced eviction in the next two months, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's Household Pulse Survey.
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