An article in the Wall Street Journal today confirmed what we knew would happen all along. More than six weeks after the federal ban ended, mass evictions have largely been avoided. GCNKAA has worked closely with local governments, local government agencies, and private charitable groups to ensure that residents could get the assistance they need.
“Landlords, meanwhile, say the risk of an eviction epidemic was always overstated and that most building owners have been willing to work with cash-strapped tenants.
Both groups also think that federal rental assistance, slow to get off the ground earlier this year, is now helping prevent many new eviction filings.
Eviction filings in court—which are how landlords begin the process of removing tenants from their homes—were up 8.7% in September from August, according to the Eviction Lab, a research initiative at Princeton University that tracks filings in more than 30 cities. But the rate is still low on a historic basis, and, at 36,796 filings, it is roughly half the average September rate pre-pandemic.”
