Four Lessons from Minnesota Can Inform the Eviction Crisis Debate [housingmatters.urban.org]

Rafael Maravilla(PACEs Connection Staff) 12/20/194:00 AM

By Ellen Sahli, Colleen Gross Ebinger, Maya Brennan, How Housing Matters, December 18, 2019

The devastating effects of evictions reach every part of the US. The bipartisan Eviction Crisis Act, introduced in Congress last week, seeks to limit these effects.

The legislation proposes creating or testing new interventions to increase the use of specialized housing courts, expand short-term financial assistance, reduce situations in which eviction filings affect future rental applications, and track the state of evictions in the US.

The success of local eviction prevention efforts in Ramsey County, Minnesota, can inform the national debate about how to best prevent evictions. Ramsey County has many of the elements noted in the Eviction Crisis Act, but many preventable problems remain.

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