The CDC placed a moratorium on evictions during the first 16 months of the pandemic to prevent a wave of people from losing their homes while suffering financial hardships. However, a Dallas-based corporate landlord was still filing eviction notices.
An aerial view of a Houston housing complex in 2019. A U.S. House subcommittee found that four corporate landlords tried to evict thousands of tenants while a federal ban on evictions was in place., our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news.
In an emailed statement to The Texas Tribune, a spokesperson for Invitation Homes said the Dallas company has worked to keep tenants housed, helping more than 33,000 “who were in need of extra time or financial assistance, for a total of nearly $175 million.” The statement said the company helped 10,000 tenants secure rental assistance.
“As countless Americans acted admirably to support their communities during the coronavirus crisis, the four landlord companies investigated by the Select Subcommittee evicted aggressively to pad their profits,” said Democratic U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn of South Carolina, who chaired the committee. “While the abusive eviction practices documented in this report would be condemnable under any circumstances, they are unconscionable during a once-in-a-century economic and public health crisis.
The managers could try telling the tenant one Friday evening they planned to evict her on Monday and see if she left over the weekend, the executive wrote in an email sent in May 2021. They could also try calling “Child Protective Services” or replacing her functioning air conditioner with one that doesn’t work, the executive suggested.
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