On Wednesday, the Richmond Redevelopment and Housing Authority’s Board of Commissioners voted to suspend eviction proceedings until their next meeting on Feb. 16 following public outrage over the planned eviction scheduled to begin in mid-February.
Despite the omicron variant and spiking COVID-19 cases, Richmond Redevelopment and Housing Authority announced it will resume filing evictions against public housing residents this month. Two prominent Richmond educators are calling on the authority to halt evictions of families with school-age children until June.