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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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Virginiaâs redistricting commission comes to Southwest Virginia today â at least virtually. Today is the day set aside for an online hearing to listen to what people in Southwest Virginia think about how congressional and legislative lines should be redrawn when the census numbers come out.
Coming up Aug. 3 is an in-person hearing in Richmond for âcentral Virginia,â and on Aug. 5 thereâs one for âthe valley region.â
Seeing as how the commission now doesnât include any representatives from west of Forest, this hearing may be the only way people in Southwest Virginia have any official say at all (whether that âsayâ gets heeded is, of course, an entirely different matter).