Federal protections, state rental assistance not preventing all evictions

Federal and state interventions to prevent mass evictions, including the moratorium set by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, aren’t protecting everyone and people are still falling through the cracks.

Bailey Bortolin, the statewide advocacy, outreach and policy director for the Nevada Coalition of Legal Service Providers, said since Oct. 1 the Las Vegas Justice Court has already had more than 5,500 cases, which should be a dire warning of what’s to come.

“We know that 2,500 eviction orders have been granted so far,” Bortolin said. “Rental assistance, eviction mediation and the CDC protections are not catching everybody. But if we think about the amount of people it is catching and removing all those protections at once, we have a humanitarian flood on our hands.”

To prevent people from losing housing in the middle of a pandemic, the CDC issued an order Sept. 1 that allowed tenants to be protected from eviction if they meet certain qualifications such as making less than $99,000 a year, had reduced wages or were laid off and would likely become homeless.

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