The Daily Jeffersonian
Evictions rate were down in Cambridge in 2020 and into 2021 in Guernsey County, but Magistrate Teresa Liston, Cambridge Municipal Court and Jesse Moses, attorney, Southeastern Ohio Legal Services (SEOLS) expect to see that change soon.
Court records show that in 2018 there 122 filings for eviction cases, in 2019, there were 94 and in 2020 there were only 60.
Liston and Moses both attributed the decline in evictions to the COVID-19 pandemic and the moratorium put in place to temporarily halt evictions until the pandemic passes.
According to Moses at the onset of the pandemic there was a bit of scrambling in trying to figure out what legislation was coming about and what aide could be provided.