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Organizers with New Virginia Majority protest last January outside the Science Museum of Virginia, which hosted the state Senate during 2021 s first legislative session. (Photo: Crixell Matthews/VPM News)
Democrats in the General Assembly have united behind a plan to extend a key eviction protection program that has won praise from both landlords and tenant advocates.
The push comes after a federal eviction moratorium from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention expired at the end of July. Housing advocates have expressed concern about a wave of evictions coinciding with the end of the program.
There are some signs evictions may be picking up again. Eviction filings in Virginia rose in April and May, according to a report from the RVA Eviction Lab at Virginia Commonwealth University published last week. The numbers dipped in June, but researchers attributed the drop to a customary lag in data reporting.
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August 3, 2021
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) Tenants, who crowded housing courts amid concerns about a spike in evictions, got a reprieve Tuesday after the Biden administration announced an eviction ban that lapsed over the weekend would be extended 60 days in most of the country.
The move will protect areas where 90% of the U.S. population lives, making the drama that played out a day earlier in Rhode Island, Ohio, North Carolina and elsewhere in the country short-lived.
Among them was Gabe Imondi, a 74-year-old Rhode Island landlord who went to court Monday hoping to get his apartment back. He was tired of waiting for federal rental assistance and wondered aloud “what they’re doing with that money?”
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Luis Vertentes, a tenant from East Providence, R.I., stands before Judge Walter Gorman during an eviction hearing, on Monday after the lifting of a federal moratorium on being ousted for unpaid rent plead their case in court. Charles Krupa/AP
PROVIDENCE, R.I. Tenants, who crowded housing courts amid concerns about a spike in evictions, got a reprieve Tuesday after the Biden administration announced an eviction ban that lapsed over the weekend would be extended 60 days in most of the country.
The move will protect areas where 90% of the U.S. population lives, making the drama that played out a day earlier in Rhode Island, Ohio, North Carolina and elsewhere in the country short-lived.
PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island (AP) â Gabe Imondi, a 74-year-old landlord from Rhode Island, had come to court hoping to get his apartment back. He was tired of waiting for federal rental assistance and wondered aloud âwhat theyâre doing with that money?â
Hours later, Luis Vertentes, in a different case, was told by a judge he had three weeks to clear out of his one-bedroom apartment in nearby East Providence. The 43-year-old landscaper said he was four months behind on rent after being hospitalized for a time.
âIâm going to be homeless, all because of this pandemic,â Vertentes said. âI feel helpless, like I canât do anything even though I work and I got a full-time job.â