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At the start of the pandemic last year, Delaware imposed a moratorium on evictions, an order that was modified by Gov. John Carney in July to allow evictions if they were “necessary in the interest of justice.”
But pandemic or not, renters face an uphill battle once a landlord starts the eviction process. It’s a battle most tenants fight on their own.
According to analysis by the University of Delaware’s Biden School of Public Policy and Administration, 86 percent of landlords have legal representation during an eviction hearing, while just 2 percent of renters have counsel. The study, published in April 2020 by the school’s Center for Community Research and Service looked at 300 evictions in northern New Castle County in 2017.
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Downtown Wilmington, Delaware and the Christina River (Tim Kiser via Wikimedia Commons)
At the start of the pandemic last year, Delaware imposed a moratorium on evictions, an order that was modified by Gov. John Carney in July to allow evictions if they were “necessary in the interest of justice.”
But pandemic or not, renters face an uphill battle once a landlord starts the eviction process. It’s a battle most tenants fight on their own.
According to analysis by the University of Delaware’s Biden School of Public Policy and Administration, 86% of landlords have legal representation during an eviction hearing, while just 2% of renters have counsel. The study, published in April 2020 by the school’s Center for Community Research and Service looked at 300 evictions in northern New Castle County in 2017.
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Frankford Police Chief Laurence Corrigan told the Town Council at its Monday, Feb. 1 meeting that he has completed the process of having the department certified by the U.S. Department of Justice. This will allow the police department to apply for federal funds, he said.
âWe reached this level through a lot of hard work,â Corrigan said. âThis is the beginning of a new day for the Frankford Police Department,â he said.
The certification is active for three years from Jan. 25, which is when he received the notification, Corrigan said.
He also told the council that the department is âon the waiting listâ with the state budget office for a four-wheel drive vehicle. âObviously, thatâs a high need,â he said.
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Jay Gamel, 76, still talks about his Northern California home in the present tense, as if nothing had happened. The place is a paradise by any measure, says Gamel, who is semi-retired. The mountains are beautiful, the surroundings are gorgeous. It s a postcard.
Remains of Jay Gamel s California home after the Glass Fire. |
Credit: courtesy of Jay Gamel
For 26 years, Gamel had lived in no,
reveled in his little redwood cabin in the Sonoma County town of Kenwood, where he edits a twice-monthly local newspaper. Gamel, who moved there from Chicago, thought he would never leave the little enclave known as Adobe Canyon, in the Mayacamas range, about 90 minutes north of San Francisco.