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19-06-2023, 10:56 AM
By Michael Casey and R.J. Rico
June 17, 2023
By MICHAEL CASEY and R.J. RICO
June 17, 2023
ATLANTA (AP) — Entering court using a walker, a doctor’s note clutched in his hand, 70-year-old Dana Williams, who suffers serious heart problems, hypertension and asthma, pleaded to delay eviction from his two-bedroom apartment in Atlanta.
Although sympathetic, the judge said state law required him to evict Williams and his 25-year-old daughter De’mai Williams in April because they owed US$8,348 in unpaid rent and fees on their US$940-a-month apartment.
They have been living in limbo ever since.
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The Williams family is among millions of tenants from New York state to Las Vegas who have been evicted or face imminent eviction.
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eviction filings by landlords have come roaring back, driven by rising rents and a long-running shortage of affordable housing. Most low-income tenants ...... are finding it hard to recover because they haven’t found steady work or their wages haven’t kept pace with the rising cost of rent, food and other necessities.
Homelessness, as a result, is rising.
......
“Across the country, low-income renters are in an even worse situation than before the pandemic due to things like massive increases in rent during the pandemic, inflation and other pandemic-era related financial difficulties.”
Eviction filings are more than 50% higher than the pre-pandemic average in some cities
https://apnews.com/article/evictions-hom...2f404d2afb
June 17, 2023
By MICHAEL CASEY and R.J. RICO
June 17, 2023
ATLANTA (AP) — Entering court using a walker, a doctor’s note clutched in his hand, 70-year-old Dana Williams, who suffers serious heart problems, hypertension and asthma, pleaded to delay eviction from his two-bedroom apartment in Atlanta.
Although sympathetic, the judge said state law required him to evict Williams and his 25-year-old daughter De’mai Williams in April because they owed US$8,348 in unpaid rent and fees on their US$940-a-month apartment.
They have been living in limbo ever since.
......
The Williams family is among millions of tenants from New York state to Las Vegas who have been evicted or face imminent eviction.
......
eviction filings by landlords have come roaring back, driven by rising rents and a long-running shortage of affordable housing. Most low-income tenants ...... are finding it hard to recover because they haven’t found steady work or their wages haven’t kept pace with the rising cost of rent, food and other necessities.
Homelessness, as a result, is rising.
......
“Across the country, low-income renters are in an even worse situation than before the pandemic due to things like massive increases in rent during the pandemic, inflation and other pandemic-era related financial difficulties.”
Eviction filings are more than 50% higher than the pre-pandemic average in some cities
https://apnews.com/article/evictions-hom...2f404d2afb
