US cities see surge in evictions due to rising rents and reduced aid.

Eviction filings by landlords have surged in many US cities, driven by rising rents and a long-running shortage of affordable housing. Most low-income tenants can no longer count on pandemic resources that had kept them housed, and many are finding it hard to recover because they haven’t found steady work or their wages haven’t kept pace with the rising cost of rent, food and other necessities. Homelessness, as a result, is rising. Despite some pandemic protections being made permanent, millions of tenants from New York state to Las Vegas have been evicted or face imminent eviction.