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eviction
[ ih-vik-shuhn ]
noun
- the act of forcing a tenant, or sometimes a squatter, to vacate a property (often used attributively):
A local mother and her two daughters were given a court-ordered eviction, with four days to leave their apartment.
When the rent got far enough behind, the landlord finally sent the tenants an eviction notice.
- the act of forcing someone to leave; expulsion:
He is facing potential eviction from the Senate for failure to pay the costs of his unsuccessful legal battle.
Other Word Forms
- ԴDz···پDz noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of eviction1
Example Sentences
And she praised the nonprofit Mayor’s Fund for Los Angeles for connecting Angelenos facing eviction with resources to stay housed.
The agency has kept the deals in place even after winning in eviction court, said Tina Booth, HACLA’s director of asset management.
"Every eviction that I've been through causes trauma and mistrust around figures of authority and the ways in which you're going to be worked with," she said.
India's government has an initiative focusing on tribal welfare, but the country has come under criticism in recent years for failing to protect against evictions.
The program includes homeless outreach teams, financial assistance for tenants at risk of eviction and funds for roughly 3,200 interim housing beds.
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More About Eviction Moratorium
is an eviction moratorium?
An eviction moratorium is an order that prohibits, under certain circumstances, landlords and property owners from evicting tenants, typically for not paying rent.
In 2020, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued an eviction moratorium during the COVID-19 pandemic. The order was intended to prevent people from losing a place to stay due to inability to pay rent upon losing income—ultimately to prevent further spread of the virus. The CDC’s moratorium did not release tenants from their requirement to pay rent and did not prohibit eviction for reasons beyond failure to pay rent, such as criminal activity.
The first CDC moratorium was issued on September 4, 2020, and was extended multiple times before expiring on July 31, 2021. At the time of its expiration, searches on Dictionary.com for the words eviction and moratorium increased.
On August 3, 2021, the in response to a rise in cases related to the Delta variant of the COVID-19 virus. The second moratorium was narrower, only applying to counties with significantly high rates of COVID-19 infections. It was set to be in effect until October 3, 2021.
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