Since New York state’s ban on most evictions ended this month the pace of evictions has been slow, as tenant attorneys work to delay cases in court and the governor requested more federal aid for rental assistance.
Tens of thousands of tenants are at risk of having to leave their homes because of unpaid rent since New York’s 22-month ban expired two weeks ago. The federal eviction moratorium ended last year.
New York City landlords entered 231 eviction filings in the week after the state moratorium expired, according to court records analyzed by the Eviction Lab, a research group at Princeton University. That was about one-tenth the number of eviction filings during the week before the moratorium began in March of 2020.
Some pandemic safeguards and local laws have delayed evictions for many of the state’s delinquent tenants, as they have in a number of cities across…
