Few tenants facing eviction have an attorney. Top lawmakers are poised to change that.
Yehyun Kim :: ctmirror.org
A group of people protest outside the Hartford apartment of a woman facing eviction during a snowstorm Feb. 18. She had an attorney and the decision was delayed while a settlement is being negotiated. On that same day, judges across the state gave permission for eight landlords to evict tenants. None of those tenants had an attorney.
Facing eviction this winter, Alice attempted to email to Hartford Housing Court the documents needed to qualify for the eviction moratorium program established by the federal government during the pandemic, but her paperwork didn’t arrive.
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The federal ban on evictions, extended by President Biden through March, is a much-needed, yet only temporary pause on a looming crisis impacting hundreds of thousands of American families. Retro Report, a non-profit news organization, reports from Richmond, VA, which has one of the highest eviction rates in the nation, on how Confederate history and race are the biggest factors in determining which residents are at a higher risk of being evicted.
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Hari Sreenivasan: President Joe Biden s latest relief plan includes billions of dollars to help renters who have fallen behind on payments because of pandemic-related job losses. He s also extended the federal ban on evictions through March, which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention enacted as a public health measure. But the federal pause on evictions is not an automatic ban. Since last spring, in the 27 cities tracked by Princeton University s Eviction Lab, nea
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