Austin area renters who have not paid rent for five months or more and have exhausted all rent assistance will once again be subject to eviction beginning June 1.
Most other residential tenants and some commercial ones will be safe from eviction until at least Aug. 1.
On Friday, Austin and Travis County officials extended an eviction ban that has been in place for much of the pandemic; the order was set to expire Saturday. But this time there were some changes, most notably that landlords may now file an eviction against a tenant who owes five months or more of rent going back to April 2020. In these cases, the landlord and the tenant must have exhausted all rental assistance options.