The moratorium on evictions in the United States has not yet ended, but homeowners across the country are already evicting tenants who cannot afford to pay for their homes during the crisis.
This is reported by The New York Times.
While the coronavirus is spreading in the United States with renewed vigor, affecting tens of thousands of citizens every day, the federal law that was supposed to protect more than 12 million tenants expires. It will end on Friday, July 24th. After that, there will be nothing to stop property owners from evicting their tenants.
However, as the publication notes, there have been evictions in the past. Although it was illegal, the hastily created legislation had a serious problem: it did not say anything about punishing violators. Many Americans were forced to go to court so that they would not be deprived of a roof over their heads. In Arizona’s Pima County courts alone, there were 80 eviction proceedings in June.
At the same time, the real scale of the problem can be much more serious. In particular, illegally evicted tenants may not have sought legal assistance because they did not know, or did not know, their migration status.