CDC eviction moratorium ends June 30: Here's where to get help

WHAS11 ^ | June 2, 2021 | Renata Di Gregorio

[Hojczyk]

JACKSONVILLE, Fla — The CDC's eviction moratorium ends on the last day of June.

Right now hundreds of people are facing eviction in Duval County. According to the Duval County Clerk of Courts Office, more than 450 evictions were filed in May, which is down from 940 in January.

"The biggest tip I can give is communicate," said Northeast Florida Association of Realtors President-elect Mark Rosener. "So long as the tenant and the landlord are talking to one another, I believe that most of those issues can be resolved."

In April, the City of Jacksonville began distributing nearly $30 million in federal funds to help people cover up to a year of rent and utility payments. Close to 7,000 people applied, according to Jeff Winkler, head of basic needs at United Way of Northeast Florida. The city's rental assistance program is closed, but there are other programs that can help you if you call United Way at 2-1-1. Visit their website here. The city is still accepting applications for their mortgage relief program. A portion of more than $2 million could be yours to help pay up to six months of mortgage payments or $7,500. Apply here.

"Even before the pandemic, 40% of all households in Duval County were already struggling to make ends meet," said Winkler. "COVID obviously exacerbated that and there are still families who are trying to get on solid ground."

An estimated one in five renters are behind on payments. If you are being faced with an eviction lawsuit, Jacksonville Area Legal Aid has an online tool to help you create a legal response. Find it here.

[frogjerk]

The United States has the most squatters in the history of the world right now.

[Hojczyk]

You get 300 extra in unemployment...do not have to pay rent or mortgage ..

So live for two years with no expenses...and then get evicted..

[Rurudyne]

Where to sign up to help those evicting folks?

[pas]

They have been getting extra money and still would not pay their rent. Because they didn’t have to.

[Fido969]

Here's where to get help.

[Dilbert San Diego]

if they had managed their money properly, they would have saved up to get their rent caught up, at the point where they were required to pay rent again.

Don’t they have to retroactively pay rent for the last year plus? It’s not as if they get free rent for all those months, is it?

[pfflier]

Get ready for a sob stories blitz. “We did’t know...”

[DEPcom]

“if they had managed their money properly”

They could have a nice down payment for a house.

[SaxxonWoods]

There will be riots.

Typical sign:

“RENT IS SLAVERY”

[rightwingintelligentsia]

Oh, no; we can’t expect people to take low-level jobs. That’s demeaning.

It’s better to give them government handouts.

[Vigilanteman]

Or maybe just don’t spend the rent money on drugs?

[HamiltonJay]

I’m still trying to figure out how the CDC has the authority to halt legal evictions...

[granite]

I believe the only relief was that tenants could not be evicted. I never saw anything about forgiving rent so the renters are on the hook civilly for the back rent, which most will not pay but their credit would be ruined and good luck finding another landlord that will rent to you after viewing the credit report. It is LEGAL to discriminate against deadbeats, at least for now.

[Savage Rider]

So, this is where to get help for the squatters, not the property owners who had their property forceably taken, right?

[cgbg]

The politicians said that housing was a human right...what is this stuff about paying back rent?

;-)

[SaxxonWoods]

“So live for two years with no expenses...and then get evicted..”

There was a lot of that during the last housing crisis. From owners, not tenants. They would stop making payments. The mortgage company would get around to foreclosing in 12-18 months, redemption period is 5 months, and then the people would continue to squat for another year before the bank would get around to evicting.

Before the crisis, some people would get no-money down deals, buy a house, move in, never make a payment, get kicked out 2-3 years later. As the end approached, the occupant would strip out and sell: plumbing fixtures, appliances, light fixtures, copper pipe, A/C and furnaces, etc.

I was selling them for the banks. Business was good.

[Dilbert San Diego]

I would not be surprised if we see another virus relief package, this time to pay off people’s back rent. Yes, for now it’s legal to discriminate against deadbeats. But that could change.

[OldGoatCPO]

As I see it, someone would have to live in a shoe box or bad neighborhood if $7,500 dollars covers delinquent rent for eighteen months. These people knew they would have to eventually pay. Even if some BS legal maneuvering keeps you in the place a few more months in the end you will be evicted. Your ability to rent anything short of a flop house room will disappear when a credit check and rental/mortgage history is run. If you room with someone else who can still rent, you get hurt just because you were evicted and have not rented in your name for years. The young people and families that did this have no clue how bad they have screwed themselves for the foreseeable future. We know of college students who stayed in apartments did not pay, left at the end of the school year. They thought they were smart by half. $18 per hr at McDoddies is going to look real could to them when they hit the job market.

[RockyTx]

can a slumlord throw people out
when the lease expires?