When Carmen Diaz faced eviction as an adult, she remembered that her mother never got her deposit back after the eviction, which set their family back financially. They were evicted, she said, after the owner’s home was foreclosed on, not because her mother missed rent.
Since early pandemic-era protections against eviction expired, the number of filings has spiked as rents rise, inflation impacts budgets and families continue to struggle to recover financially from the pandemic.
The rise in evictions in Connecticut has had a huge impact on children's health and education, disrupting life and families and leaving children to worry.