The eviction crisis has begun. It will get so much worse.
“For months, legal aid attorneys, activists and community leaders have sounded the alarm: Without financial assistance for renters and small landlords, ending emergency eviction protections would produce a wave of displacement. The moment of reckoning seemed to arrive at the end of July, when provisions of the Cares Act that blocked evictions and supplemented unemployment insurance expired, wiping away two of the strongest barriers standing between renters and a wave of eviction filings.”