COVID-19 was merely a chapter in Nevada’s housing crisis woes. According to several sources, the housing landscape in Nevada is seeing an increase in evictions.

Records from North Las Vegas Justice Court show that since the pandemic, eviction filings increased from 3,931 cases in fiscal year 2019 to 5,328 in fiscal year 2022—or by about 35%. And this year alone, North Las Vegas Justice Court has seen 7,428 eviction filings as of June. (Not all filings result in eviction.)

On August 8, U.S. Rep. Steven Horsford (D-NV)–who sits on the House Financial Services Committee and Subcommittee on Housing and Insurance–sat in the court of North Las Vegas Judge Belinda Harris to witness eviction proceedings.

“The housing affordability crisis, which faced us before the pandemic—we experienced it during the pandemic. And now, with rent prices increasing as they have over the last couple of years, it’s again only gotten worse for a lot of constituents,” Horsford tells the Weekly.

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