Stories tagged: "evictions"
The proposal would require credit agencies to exclude evictions from reports that occurred throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
Phoenix advocacy group Worried About Rent provides resources to help guide tenants through forming a union. Tenants living in the Amara Apartments complex in Phoenix hit a breaking point last year. From cockroach infestations to ceiling collapses, flooding, and unaddressed holes in walls, the Amara renters felt they could no longer stand their landlords’ alleged...
Throughout 2020, landlords had attorneys in about 89% of Maricopa County eviction cases. Less than 1% of tenants had legal representation.
The county’s usual “failure to appear” rate for tenants in eviction cases is around 36%. However, the average for this year is only about 25%. When the pandemic began early this year, Maricopa County and other court systems moved to remote procedures to keep everyone safe. For eviction hearings, tenants, landlords, attorneys, and justices of...
Members of Congress have proposed new relief packages, but they don’t address all of the protections set to end Dec. 31.
Even with pandemic-era protections to help renters facing eviction, hundreds of eviction notices are served to Arizona tenants every week.