A SENIOR citizen has said she’s facing eviction for the first time ever.
Renter, Veronica Showers, is just one of thousands who risk being booted out of their homes in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Officials on the city’s housing commissions have restarted evictions after they were paused during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Showers is renting an apartment and is thousands of dollars in debt. She told the local Fox affiliate WAGA that her arrears stands at $11,000.
This is despite the fact that Showers said she’s worked every day for the last three years.
She said: “I work every day but what I make just cannot keep up.”
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City officials have warned that Showers is just one of around 12,000 people who could be facing the prospect of eviction.
Evictions are now being enforced more than a year after the federal law that blocked evictions during the Covid pandemic ended.
But landlords in the state have told how they are facing eviction backlogs.
Landlord, Laverne DeLoach, has claimed her tenant stopped paying rent in October 2022 before an eviction motion was filed last December, per the local CBS affiliate WANF.
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DeLoach told the outlet that she was waiting to have the case heard in court.
Landlord, Vladimir Yampolsky, said his tenant was living in a property seven months after an eviction notice had been submitted.
Courts across the state are scrambling to hire more judges and add more eviction calendars in a desperate bid to clear the backlog.
The U.S. Sun. has approached Andy Schneggenburger, of the DeKalb County Commission, for comment.
