Maricopa County Justice Courts report the number of eviction filings in the county in 2023 was up more than 20% from pre-pandemic levels. And the trend appears to be continuing in the wrong direction in 2024. Maricopa County landlords filed 8,025 evictions in January the most ever for a single month.
Finding a Valley rental is hard enough. How about being denied because you applied for rental assistance or that you asked about your application status too many times?
The looming eviction crisis is not only a moral failure, but also an unprecedented public health disaster.
America is on the verge of an unprecedented eviction crisis. On Dec. 31, the Centers for Disease Control and Preventionâs nationwide eviction moratorium will expire. According to the National Low Income Housing Coalition, somewhere between 12 million and 17 million households â up to 40 million people â have little or no confidence that they can pay their rent and avoid eviction if they donât get relief.
âWeâre looking at the very real possibility of tens of millions of people losing their homes this winter during a spike in COVID-19,â said NLIHC President Diane Yentel.