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Evictions are up in many parts of the U.S. as rents rise and eviction moratoriums have lifted. The Eviction Lab, a project out of Princeton University, reported 9,300 evictions in the first week of...
In August, the Supreme Court struck down eviction protections for most of the U.S., meaning as many as 3.5 million households are at risk of losing their homes, CBS News reported. If you're one of...
What policies can Fort Worth leaders enact to fight skyrocketing eviction filings? Eviction filings in Fort Worth soar in the last 3 years. What can the city do about it?
Eviction normally takes the form of a lawsuit, requiring an initial notice to a tenant, followed by court proceedings in which the tenant may contest the eviction and potentially file a counter-claim.At the conclusion of the eviction process, if the landlord prevails, the court will issue an order that the property be restored to the possession ...
Constructive eviction is a circumstance where a tenant's use of the property is so significantly impeded by actions under the landlord's authority that the tenant has no alternative but to vacate the premises. [1] The doctrine applies when a landlord of real property has acted in a way that renders the property uninhabitable. Constructive ...
Ejectment is a common law term for civil action to recover the possession of or title to land. [1] It replaced the old real actions and the various possessory assizes (denoting county-based pleas to local sittings of the courts) where boundary disputes often featured.
Eviction rates are also linked to the racial concentration of neighborhoods. The RVA Eviction Lab, in Richmond, Virginia, estimates that as the proportion of a neighborhood's black population increases by 10%, eviction rates would increase by 1.2%. [63] Hispanic renters also face higher filing and eviction rates than their white counterparts.
In December 2020, the New York State Legislature passed a state moratorium on evictions. [11] In May 2021, the legislature extended the moratorium until August 31. [12]The Supreme Court struck down a provision of the state moratorium that protected people who filed a form declaring economic hardship, rather than providing evidence in court.