The Philadelphia Municipal Court resumed evictions this July, and some tenants could be locked out after not hearing from the court in months.

Since March 2020, only a handful of tenants have been locked out of their homes in Philadelphia due to moratoriums spurred by the pandemic. That changed on July 1, when the Philadelphia Municipal Court gave a green light to the landlord-tenant officers, the private company that handles the final steps of the eviction process, to execute evictions.

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