Just a Landlord

Congress, the Massachusetts Legislature, and Governor Charlie Baker must act now to protect those at risk of losing their homes.

"I got the mortgage, the payment of taxes, and having to deal with someone telling me they ain't paying me," said Keyth Dickerson, Chicago landlord. "Right now they're buying Christmas presents and they haven't paid in five, six, seven months." Dickerson said he's fronting the money for the half a dozen South Side properties he […]

Families who fought through institutional racism in housing, periods of economic decline and rising crime are now facing a new threat: displacement.

Who doesn’t love good data? With that being said, the folks over at Statista said that in 2019 there were approximately 43 million housing units occupied by renters in the United States. They point out that while this number has remained relatively steady since 2014, it has increased significantly since 1975. Click here to readRead […]

McBride also says she was shocked when she found out Housing Authority board members met illegally to discuss the future of the long standing public housing high rise without city leadership at the table. The meeting, which city officials say took place behind closed doors, resulted in the Housing Authority announcing the end of Rabbi […]

Long Island has the most foreclosures and zombie homes in the state, and property analysts expect that will only get worse when COVID-19 moratoriums end in

As missed payments add up, landlords are implementing stricter criteria when screening new clients. The Urban Institute and Avail study found that 35.6% of landlords have tightened their criteria, with 50% of Black and Hispanice landlords focusing on previous evictions when choosing tenants. This is in comparison to 35% for white landlords. Many landlords are […]

As many as 35% of those surveyed owe back rent. That number increases to 56% for people of color. Even with an extension of the current moratorium, Oregon will likely only delay the evictions unless the move comes with significant rent relief.

ATTOM Data Solutions October 2020 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report shows that foreclosure filings are up 20 percent from September 2020.

In an October survey of 1,381 landlords who own rental properties, 35.2% of respondents said they did not receive the full amount of rental payments from tenants during September, while 38.1% were not expecting to receive full rent payments in October. More than three-quarters of respondents stated their September situation was due to tenants who […]

While the eviction moratoriums are still in place, Congress has a choice: prepare a rental recovery program that builds trust or allow mass eviction, displacement, foreclosure, corporate consolidation and increased inequality. It is a choice with repercussions not just for individual citizens, but for the survival of a real democracy.

Banks and landlords should be made whole by applying to a new federal program funded by reductions in the defense budget.

Under his proposal, every cost-burdened, low-income family would receive a check to bridge the gap between their actual rent and the rent they can afford. The impact would be immediate.

Leonard Rosenberg, 67, spent up to three hours filling out a grant application for three tenants who owed him rent, after he received a postcard in the mail from New Jersey with information on the program. Rosenberg, who lives in Livingston, has been a landlord of homes across Hudson County, mostly in Kearny, for 40 […]

"Pathways to Stable Homes," recommends a multipronged policy strategy — targeting childcare costs, tax credits, and eviction protections — to increase families’ spending power and safeguard against housing instability.

Childcare costs, taxes, and eviction policies have an intertwined influence on housing stability, according to a new report from Children's HealthWatch.

New Year’s Day 2021 could be a scary day for millions of renting families, as that is when a federal eviction moratorium is slated to expire.

Eviction moratoriums alone, however, are not enough. Without adequate financial assistance, renters will continue to owe accumulated back rent and late fees. Now is the time for action to provide emergency rental assistance. A failure to do so will result in millions of renters spiraling deeper into debt and housing poverty, while public costs and […]

Lawmakers are also proposing a Landlord Compensation Fund, paid for with $100 million from the general fund. Landlords will apply for rent assistance from the state on behalf of their tenants who owe rent. Public housing authorities will issue assistance checks directly to landlords. The program will help with back-rent only and landlords will be […]

Although the Milwaukee County Eviction Prevention Program is helping to keep a roof over the heads of hundreds of Milwaukeeans, it’s running out of money.

A deadly pandemic is no time to turn families out of their homes.

Members of the Clark County Commission are exploring their options to stave off evictions after a judge rejected a request from Gov. Steve Sisolak's office to label evictions as "non-essential" and halt the proceedings as part of broader, COVID-related closures of the Las Vegas Justice Court.

In New York City and throughout the nation, activists are standing up for renters’ rights. Rising rents, stagnant wages, and low rental vacancy rates were a toxic mix long before COVID-19 hit U.S. shores.

He suspects many landlords are handling things outside of court and Mitchell Posilkin, general counsel for the Rent Stabilization Association, agrees. “You have another universe where the landlord and the tenant are reaching some sort of mutual agreement with regard to how much rent can be paid in the meantime, while the remainder remains due […]

Evictions are still taking place over violations of lease terms involving police calls and other requirements.

Raphael Ramos, head of the Eviction Defense Project, said that when the CDC moratorium began "we were worried that landlords would try to do an end run" by evicting people for reasons other than being behind on their rent. So far, he said, the project — which is an arm of Legal Action of Wisconsin […]

The legal papers from ManApart state the reason for the eviction isn’t nonpayment of rent but rather a desire not to renew the lease.

“We have about a dozen that are on payment plans. It’s one in particular that we have that is still employed. He just told us, ‘Well, I don’t have to pay, so I’m not going to pay.’ There’s absolutely no requirements that you actually be unemployed or that your hours have been cut back at […]

In his ruling, Senior U.S. District Judge Howard Sachs wrote the federal moratorium on tenant evictions does not stop landlords from filing civil action against tenants, only from removing them from their properties. Sachs did not rule on the tenant’s claim that Missouri law prohibits eviction proceedings while the CDC order was in effect. Also […]

Caleb Kruckenberg, litigation counsel for the NCLA, told MPA why he thinks the district judge erred and laid out some of the case he’s making on behalf of landlords in this second injunction. He explained that while the judge accepted the harm his clients were suffering was serious, it was not serious enough to warrant […]

Mr. Biden’s aides have weighed having the president-elect announce in the coming weeks that he will sign executive orders on his first day in office extending moratoriums on evictions and foreclosures,