In early February, a piece of paper slipped through the mail slot in Ivy Handy’s door. She owed her landlord $2,184.75, it said, and if she didn’t pay, she would have to leave.

“It broke me,” Ms. Handy said. She knew what it could mean. When she was 19, she and her siblings were forced out of their home and into a homeless shelter for nine months. The thought of going through that again at age 53 filled her with dread.

Eviction notices are being served to a rising number of people in the United States now that moratoriums, which protected renters like Ms. Handy early in the pandemic, have ended and billions of federal dollars for rental assistance have stopped flowing.

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