Delaware Business Now Reading Time: 1 minute At the start of the pandemic last year, Delaware imposed a moratorium on evictions, an order that was modified by Gov. John Carney in July to allow evictions if they were “necessary in the interest of justice.” But pandemic or not, renters face an uphill battle once a landlord starts the eviction process. It’s a battle most tenants fight on their own. According to analysis by the University of Delaware’s Biden School of Public Policy and Administration, 86 percent of landlords have legal representation during an eviction hearing, while just 2 percent of renters have counsel. The study, published in April 2020 by the school’s Center for Community Research and Service looked at 300 evictions in northern New Castle County in 2017.