Evictions

Both 2024 presidential candidates have made housing part of their legislative priorities for this election. Two Florida economists weight in on how each of these might affect voters in Central Florida.

The USDA has cited the park in the past six months for numerous violations, including allowing animals to languish ill or injured. The park's owners are trying to challenge the eviction in court.

An eviction on your record can make it tough to find a place to live. But fighting the eviction in court can be costly. And it doesn’t always help.

An eviction on your record can make it tough to find a place to live. But fighting the eviction in court can be costly. And it doesn’t always help.

HB 621, on squatters' rights, would expand the definition of “transient occupants” in two ways: It would include renters without a notarized lease and tenants without a receipt of rental payment to the property's owner.

In 2022, Orange County had a record-high number of eviction cases, almost 16,000, the most in the last decade. So far, 2023 numbers are not much different.

When tenants face eviction from a mobile home park, they are often at risk of losing their own property, too. One Dade City woman shares her story.

Researchers linked information from 38 million eviction court filings to demographic data provided by the U.S. Census Bureau to create the most comprehensive snapshot to date of the population facing eviction.

National legal aid organization Legal Services Corporation says 40% of the cases it closed last year were related to housing issues -- a record for any one type of case. The numbers reflect the same in Central Florida.

Experts say that the cost of avoiding eviction can be just as damaging as an eviction itself. There's also no guarantee that landlords won't use an eviction hearing against renters in the future.

When landlords push renters out without using the court — in what’s called an informal eviction — there’s often no way to track it.

More than 1,500 renters were evicted in Hillsborough and Pinellas counties in March. That’s a 26 percent jump compared to January of 2020, according to data from the Eviction Lab.