Evictions ramp up in states as pandemic moratoriums come to an end
Some tenants in New York City are coming home to find the locks on the doors changed or their personal belongings discarded.
In extreme cases, they have experienced harassment or assault as landlords try to force them to vacate.
Housing advocates are sounding the alarm as they see an increase in unlawful evictions during the Covid-19 pandemic. With the city’s eviction moratorium set to expire Saturday, Sateesh Nori said he and other advocates don’t know how much worse it's going to get because the moratorium essentially zeroed out legal evictions.
Nori, attorney-in-charge of the Legal Aid Society's office in Queens, represents people who have been evicted unlawfully in housing court. One of his clients lost his work as a consultant for the biotech company Immunotec when the pandemic began, and making rent became difficult. Eventually, he had to stop paying, Nori said.
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