OMAHA – Nebraska renters are feeling the sting of rent increases, causing the number of evictions to rise across the state.

Through the first six months of the year, the state saw almost 1,400 more eviction cases than the same time in 2022.

Despite the increase, Scott Mertz, director of the housing unit at Legal Aid of Nebraska, says tenants with financial difficulties and facing eviction usually qualify for their services which often get people a better outcome that may allow them to stay where they’re at.

Nebraska Investment Financing Authority Executive Director Shannon Harner says $48 million of COVID-related Emergency Rental Assistance Funds is available for people outside the Omaha and Lincoln areas to help stabilize households struggling to afford rent and utilities.

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