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The protocol mandates that tenants be notified at least 20 days prior to the initial hearing and that the initial hearing be in person with the landlord, tenant and an eviction diversion facilitator.
Six days after the sheriff showed her the door, the hotel staff found her and called 911. She died later that day. I’ve read stories about other states where landlords must surmount hurdles to ...
Landlord-initiated expulsion of tenants is not officially tracked or monitored by the federal government and has not been subject to comprehensive analysis. In 2016, sociologist Matthew Desmond published Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City which brought wide-scale attention to the United States eviction crisis. [ 6 ]
In most circumstances existing tenants are protected and rent controlled, such that a tenant is more or less entitled to a new lease, and the landlord cannot increase the rent more than 2 percent ...
A person is 15% more likely to be laid off after experiencing eviction. [65] This can lead to a cycle where the eviction makes it difficult to work but not working can lead to eviction. Evictions can remain on a tenant's record for up to seven years in the United States, [66] and landlords are allowed to reject tenants due to previous evictions ...
In organizing mass resistance to evictions, the Unemployed Councils would lead small bands of unemployed to use "strong arm tactics" to prevent authorities from tossing people and their belongings into the streets, which resulted in 77,000 evicted people being restored to their homes in New York City alone.
Under state law, landlords can evict tenants if they are planning a "substantial remodel" of a unit. Long Beach housing advocate Maria Lopez saw it as a loophole in tenant protection law.
Thousands more are expected to receive eviction notices in the coming months. Mamadou Diallo, a 39-year-old from Senegal, says he’s not sure where he’ll go when his time expires later this week at a shelter in the Bronx.