Hawaii Lawmakers Mull Mediation To Prevent Mass Evictions After Moratorium Lifted - Honolulu Civil Beat
Hawaii Lawmakers Mull Mediation To Prevent Mass Evictions After Moratorium Lifted
A bill would require landlords to enter mediation upon a tenant’s request, but some advocates say the measure doesn’t do enough to protect renters at risk of eviction. Reading time: 8 minutes.
Hawaii lawmakers are considering spending millions to support landlord-tenant mediation services in an effort to prevent a flood of post-moratorium eviction proceedings from overwhelming the courts and driving up homelessness in the state.
House Bill 1376 and its companion Senate Bill 1388 would require landlords to wait 15 days instead of five between issuing an eviction notice and filing a summary possession case in court.
Georgia took center stage at the impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump on Wednesday. Impeachment managers cited Trump’s Jan. 2 phone call to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.
“I just wanna find, uh, 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have,” said Trump, trying to coax Raffensperger into finding votes to declare him, rather than Joe Biden, the winner of Georgia’s electoral votes.
The impeachment-supporting documents also detail how Trump allegedly pressured former Atlanta-based U.S. Attorney B.J. Pak, who abruptly resigned right after the call to Raffensperger. The documents say Trump demanded Pak’s resignation because he refused to investigate the former president’s baseless claims of widespread voter fraud.
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Kayla Miranda and fellow advocate Amelia Miranda watch the eviction of a resident Wednesday from Apache Courts, a neighboring complex of Alazán Courts, which SAHA plans to rebuild.Jerry Lara /San Antonio Express-NewsShow MoreShow Less
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Community advocate Kayla Miranda, 37, talks with her daughter, Nadia, 16, at their Alazan-Apache Courts unit, Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021. Miranda has been an outspoken person on the issue of the demolition of the courts and their redevelopment. With them is the family’s three-year-old dog, “Joy”.Jerry Lara, Staff / San Antonio Express-NewsShow MoreShow Less
A lawmaker who represents Osceola County, where some of the working poor pile into rent-by-the-week motels, has filed a bill that would make it easier to kick out residents of affordable housing statewide.
UPDATED: Jan. 20, 2021 at 5:40 p.m.
During a tumultuous four years under the administration of Donald Trump, local leaders have dealt with the fallout of how its policies trickled down into the lives of Cambridge residents. While Covid-19 and economic fallout raged nationally, the cityâs top issues â small business erosion, food insecurity, and homelessness â have all been exacerbated.
Now, as President-elect Joe Biden is set to take office, he has proposed lengthy plans to tackle the nationâs crises. Looking ahead, Cambridge leaders said they have both hopes and demands for renewed local support under a Biden administration.
Under Trump, the Cambridge Community Foundation, a public charity that funds nonprofits around the city, transitioned to devoting its funding to combat the effects of the administrationâs âregressive policies,â according to its president, Geeta K. Pradhan.