People are now getting eviction notices in Maricopa County at rates greater than the years immediately before COVID-19, and with rents soaring, thousands more will soon be out of a home.

Senior citizens. Veterans. Mothers and children. No one is exempt when an illness, a car repair or a newly raised rent makes it impossible to deliver the monthly payment.

The per capita eviction rate climbed to about 115 eviction filings per 10,000 metro Phoenix renter households in January, an Arizona Republic analysis shows.

In the five years before the COVID-19 pandemic, the highest rate was about 105 filings per 10,000 renter households, in August and October 2019.

More than 67,000 eviction cases were filed in Maricopa County in 2022, according to records from the Maricopa County Justice Courts.

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