The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing today on legislation sponsored by Sen. Dawn Euer to impose a moratorium on nonessential residential evictions and mortgage foreclosures during a state of emergency and establish an eviction-diversion program to resolve landlord-tenant eviction disputes.
“There should be no risk of more people becoming homeless during a state of emergency. Having housing is the Number 1 determinant of individuals’ health, safety, ability to stay employed and afford the essentials. Allowing evictions to proceed in times of widespread crisis would exponentially multiply the costs of those challenges, both in terms of dollars and in human harm,” said Senator Euer (D-Dist. 13, Newport, Jamestown).
