Arizona cities and counties received hundreds of millions of federal dollars to provide rental relief to struggling tenants during the pandemic.
But thousands of Arizona renters were evicted – and will continue to be – because the eviction process moves faster than the government is delivering aid.
Arizona law allows landlord to initiate an eviction as soon as five days after missed rent. Rental assistance can take weeks or even months to get to a renter.
When eviction moratoriums were in place, judges would postpone most evictions if a renter had applied for rental assistance and was awaiting aid. But since the final moratorium ended in late August, evictions have continued without pause.
Eviction filings climbed back up to about 91% of pre-pandemic levels in the first three months of 2022, despite an unprecedented amount of available rental assistance, alarming renter advocates.
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