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NYC Evictions Dropped By More Than 80% In 2020


NYC Evictions Dropped By More Than 80% In 2020
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Tenant activists protesting outside of Brooklyn housing court August 6th, 2020.
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A total of 3,059 tenants were evicted from New York City apartments in all of 2020, according to new data provided by the city’s Department of Investigation. That’s a decrease of more than 80 percent, or about 18 percent of the nearly 17,000 evictions completed in 2019.
The data was compiled by DOI from reports submitted by city marshals, who are charged with enforcing court orders, including evictions. There was no breakdown by month. However, tenant advocates said it is pretty obvious the eviction moratorium Governor Andrew Cuomo signed after the pandemic struck last March contributed to this year’s dramatically low number of evictions. ....

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