The number of people seeking help for evictions from South Carolina Legal Services is on pace to match the group’s record set in 2021.
Staff attorney Mark Fessler said that in 2021, the group received applications for help from a record 1,500 tenants facing eviction from private landlords.
That was a 35% increase from 2019, Fessler said, and came despite pandemic-related protections like the eviction moratorium and emergency COVID-19 rent relief.
Now 2022 is on pace to match that number, Fessler said, in part because of the loss of those protections, and because increasing property values and a tight housing market have allowed many landlords to raise rents sometimes by $100 a month or more.
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