Will Parker
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780 appearances
18 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2019
last heard Nov 2024
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You know, you miss a month of rent, a landlord files, you may only have five days to answer it, or, you know, only a couple weeks before you really have to leave the
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property that you're renting.
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So in much of the country, the concern is that this is going to happen really fast, that there's going to be such a large backlog of non-payment and landlords that are frustrated with not being able to collect and also frustrated with not being able to get their property back while no rent is coming in that are all of a sudden going to be flooding the courts at the same time.
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It has been a huge problem for both tenants and landlords, as well as their attorneys, to figure out exactly what they can and can't do.
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And as well for judges who are looking at the terms of this federal protection for renters, as well as any other local protections that may be on the books.
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So you're seeing unequal outcomes in courts that handle evictions and other housing issues.
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matters because not all the rules are being applied the same way in every place and we should say that not everyone is covered by the moratorium why did some renters not qualify so the way that the cdc order works is that you have to participate in it as a tenant you have to sign a declaration saying i have financial hardship and i am unable to pay despite my best efforts to try and pay but there have been places where landlords have been able to challenge that claim of financial hardship in court
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poking holes in it using evidence of other money or savings somehow.
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And in those cases, housing attorneys that work with tenants have seen in these cases that some tenants end up losing their eviction case and they are not able to use the CDC order to keep their apartment or house.
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There are bipartisan discussions for a new stimulus bill that would include $25 billion in rental assistance and presumably also include some form of moratorium extension, whether that would be the exact CDC eviction ban that we've had or a different model that perhaps wouldn't be extensive.
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It remains to be seen.
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And there's not a draft of this bill that is available to the public as of now.
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Yes, and you hear a lot of frustration on the part of small landlords, perhaps those that may have a single property, those that are retired and perhaps relying on that investment property for income, in some cases now going many months without being able to collect from a tenant either because that tenant simply can't pay or that tenant is not paying.
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And while the owner is continuing to make mortgage payments and incur other costs, it's
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And so you're seeing a lot of these owners now attempting to sue local housing authorities, or there are even a couple of cases against the federal government now trying to get some sort of legal remedy here to say that these eviction moratoriums are overly restrictive and that they should not be allowed.
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So there's a real standoff between landlords and tenants right now.
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And whether or not this eviction moratorium is extended is going to be a big part of how that standoff is resolved.
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What I've heard from attorneys and I've spoken to a judge in Texas about this is that they're realizing they're going to have to make some accommodation for the amount of eviction cases they're expected to hear.
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One judge I talked to in Texas simply said they'll be delaying things like jury trials temporarily.
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to further out in the spring than they would have perhaps ordinarily in order to make room for what they expect to be just a deluge of evictions that they've not seen before.
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