If you received an eviction notice it is recommended to immediately contact a legal aid organization so that you know your rights and options. Here you can find a local help office.
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Mari (*) has spent almost two months without hanging her apron or cooking on the stove of the restaurant where she worked in Manhattan, New York. The weeks have passed and in your house there is a concern that becomes more acute as the days go by: how are you going to pay the rent on May 1? On April they were able to do it with the few savings they had, but on Friday, they are presented uphill.
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“The most difficult thing is paying the rent, fortunately we have a little money and with that we are going to try to survive, but the rent is what worries us the most, because I also have my two daughters and we have to feed them”, Mari tells Univision News. In her apartment in the Queens neighborhood, everyone lost their jobs, as the establishments where her husband, as a cook, and his brother-in-law, as a waiter, closed almost at the beginning of the pandemic.
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In this map done by that organization together with Columbia University you can also check what measures are in place in your state.
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It is also important to emphasize that in some states the courts have postponed non-urgent hearings or have gone further by prohibiting judges from issuing eviction orders. This is also detailed in the document mentioned above.
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“The tenant’s state or city may have put restrictions in place or suspended evictions during the pandemic (…) However, that does not mean that the obligation to pay rent is gone, it’s just been put off“Renee Williams, a lawyer for the National Housing Law Project.
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That is why many of those who dodged the April payment and plan to do so with the May payment wonder what will happen when the moratorium term ends and the months of rent have accumulated, because that temporary measure does not mean that You have completely eliminated your rent payment.
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