Evictions Spike, Across the United States , As Protections Disappear.<br />ABC reports that eviction filings nationwide <br />have steadily risen in recent months to <br />approach or exceed pre-pandemic levels.<br />I really think this is the tip of the iceberg. <br />Our numbers of evictions are increasing <br />every month at an astonishing rate, and I just <br />don’t see that abating any time soon, Shannon MacKenzie, executive director of Colorado Poverty Law Project, via ABC.<br />Amid the pandemic, moratoriums on evictions <br />and $46.5 billion in federal Emergency <br />Rental Assistance kept millions housed.<br />Now that most of those housing measures have ended, several cities are above, historic eviction averages. .<br />According to The Eviction Lab, , Minneapolis-St. Paul's eviction rate, was 91% higher in June. .<br />Meanwhile, Las Vegas was up 56%, <br />Hartford, Connecticut, was up 32% <br />and Jacksonville, Florida, was up 17%.<br />Officials in Maricopa County say that eviction <br />filings in July were the highest in 13 years.<br />According to Zillow, <br />compared to the same time in 2019, <br />the cost of rent is up almost 25%.<br />Data from the Census Bureau shows <br />that rental vacancy rates have also <br />declined to a 35-year low of just 5.8%.<br />Data from the Census Bureau shows <br />that rental vacancy rates have also <br />declined to a 35-year low of just 5.8%.<br />Landlords are raising the rent <br />and making it very unaffordable <br />for tenants to stay, Marie Claire Tran-Leung, the eviction initiative project director for the National Housing Law Project, via ABC.<br />Without more protections in place, <br />which not all states have, a lot of those <br />families will be rendered homeless, Marie Claire Tran-Leung, the eviction initiative project director for the National Housing Law Project, via ABC
