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Organizers with New Virginia Majority protest last January outside the Science Museum of Virginia, which hosted the state Senate during 2021 s first legislative session. (Photo: Crixell Matthews/VPM News)
Democrats in the General Assembly have united behind a plan to extend a key eviction protection program that has won praise from both landlords and tenant advocates.
The push comes after a federal eviction moratorium from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention expired at the end of July. Housing advocates have expressed concern about a wave of evictions coinciding with the end of the program.
There are some signs evictions may be picking up again. Eviction filings in Virginia rose in April and May, according to a report from the RVA Eviction Lab at Virginia Commonwealth University published last week. The numbers dipped in June, but researchers attributed the drop to a customary lag in data reporting.
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Technically, he was evicted because of his pigeons.
Hemmed in by a federal moratorium and state-level protections delaying evictions for nonpayment of rent, some landlords have seized on lease violations to evict tenants as the pandemic has dragged on and financial losses have mounted.
In Schermerhornâs case, the cause was some three dozen so-called Fancy pigeons in two coops in his backyard. He didnât have permission from his landlord to have the birds â Fantails and Frillbacks, Portuguese Tumblers, Birmingham Rollers among them â on the property. Schermerhorn said he believed his landlord had seized on their presence as an excuse to boot him from the house and lease it to someone else.
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