Arkansas landlords filed an average of 696 civil eviction complaints per month in 2022, according to a study of “all publicly available (COVID-19) pandemic-related eviction cases” in state court records by the advocacy group Arkansas Community Institute.

The group released a report on the study Wednesday and called for large-scale changes to state renting laws. Arkansas Community Institute is a partner of Arkansas Community Organizations, which has repeatedly called attention to poor living conditions in low-income housing.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a nationwide moratorium on evictions from September 2020 to August 2021, but the ban simply prevented the removal of tenants from their dwellings, not the filings of eviction notices.

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