As of October, 591,000 households in New York — about 407,800 in NYC — are behind on rent, according to the research group National Equity Atlas. “People are going to be threatened with eviction again and we’re still in the midst of COVID.'
Demonstrators attend a rally in Cadman Plaza Park calling for an extension of the state's eviction ban.Demonstrators attend a rally in Cadman Plaza Park calling for an extension of the state's eviction ban.Hundreds of thousands of financially strapped renters are in danger of losing their homes if New York State lawmakers and the governor let the Covid-19 eviction moratorium expire next week, tenant advocates warn, exacerbating an already dire homelessness crisis.
Since the start of the pandemic, landlords in New York have filed about 58,800 eviction cases for nonpayment of rent against residential tenants, according to Right to Counsel NYC Coalition, an anti-eviction group. Of those, about 50,900 cases are in New York City. Amelia Camacho of Brooklyn and her family are among those facing eviction. Camacho and her husband, Sergio De Jesus, lost their jobs in the spring of 2020 at the start of the pandemic and didn’t have the money to cover their monthly rent of $1,102, according to court records. In September 2020, their landlord petitioned the court to evict the couple and their son, saying the family owed a total of $18,000 in rent.
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