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TexasTowelie

(111,313 posts)
Fri Jun 18, 2021, 02:26 PM Jun 2021

New law requires landlords to use mediation before evicting tenants

Mediation centers on the Big Island are preparing for an influx of cases when the state’s eviction moratorium ends in August.

On Wednesday, Gov. David Ige ratified a new law aimed at preventing a tsunami of eviction cases when the current prohibition on evicting tenants for failing to pay their rent ends on Aug. 6 after more than a year.

The law allocates funds from the American Rescue Plan Act toward free mediation services that landlords must make an effort to use before they can file eviction proceedings in court.

Hawaii County is slated to receive $559,000 for the two nonprofit mediation centers on the Big Island.

Read more: https://www.westhawaiitoday.com/2021/06/18/hawaii-news/new-law-requires-landlords-to-use-mediation-before-evicting-tenants/

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New law requires landlords to use mediation before evicting tenants (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jun 2021 OP
Holy cats. There is no way we have the capacity mahina Jun 2021 #1

mahina

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1. Holy cats. There is no way we have the capacity
Fri Jun 18, 2021, 02:34 PM
Jun 2021

To accommodate this. These just are not that many trained mediators.

I better brush up and volunteer and hope others do too.

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