Tenants call out landlords for eviction threats during coronavirus crisis, prompting some to apologize: 'Significant mistake'

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In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, many landlords are offering relief to their tenants affected by the mass shutdowns, but plenty of landlords seem to have not gotten the memo.

“I don't know how many millions of landlords and housing providers there are in the country, but I'm not surprised that we've continued to see a big variation in how they themselves respond to these conditions,” Eric Dunn, director of litigation at the housing-justice non-profitDunn says that there are five steps to an eviction process — written notice, landlord filing in court, eviction granted by a judge, judge assigning a physical enforcer and physical removal by marshals — and...

“It's important to stop all five stages so that not only do you reach every type of case, no matter how far it has gone but also so that you're not sort of setting up this avalanche of evictions that would come [when the moratorium expires],” Dunn explains.

That’s something Justin Leverton, of RJR Capital Management in Indiana, likely didn’t consider when he told tenantsto prioritize rent money over food money, as “it is better to go to a food bank than be homeless.” Further, the company’s emails, posted by tenants to Twitter, suggest tenants use their retirement savings, rainy-day funds or to simply “borrow money from parents.

to his tenants last week. He explains that the message was “sent in haste” and that he’s since issued an apology to tenants, addressing his “ignorance, insensitivity, and callousness.”

 

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