Eviction moratoriums and millions of dollars in federal rent aid helped keep people housed during the COVID-19 pandemic.

But as those temporary protections end, advocates worry about increasing eviction filings. An eviction can leave long lasting scars, they say.

An eviction case — which is a public filing — can make it harder for tenants to find future housing and can catapult them into a cycle of living in substandard units especially in the midst of an affordable housing crunch.

That’s something Deanna Jordan worries about as she plans to embark on her own housing search. Jordan, 46, and currently living in Ypsilanti, was evicted twice — one eviction involved a termination of tenancy and another for nonpayment — in the last decade while struggling with a past drug addiction and mental health issues that left her in and out of shelters, she said.

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