Friday, March 12, 2021 - 1:19 pm
BY ANDY GARDNER
North Country This Week
CANTON – A member of St. Lawrence County’s Fair Housing Task Force asked county legislators to consider making a possible incoming wave of evictions as “a legislative agenda item.”
John Tenbusch, who is also a St. Lawrence County planner, discussed the matter with the board’s Operations Committee during their Monday, March 8 meeting.
Tenbusch said after speaking with Massena Justice Diana Dufresne from the Massena-based Justice and Law Center that there have been 260 eviction applications filed for the county in the last four months. He said that’s increased 75% in the last year.