The Houston metro area has seen 42% more eviction filings in the last year than in a typical year before the pandemic. More than 500 evictions have been filed at The Life at Jackson Square apartment complex alone, more than one a day.
Harkness attributed the high number of evictions at The Life at Jackson Square to its size. But enough evictions have been filed there in the last year to account for more than 1 in 3 of its units — or a filing rate of about 37% — well above the overall rate in Houston.
Munroe and McDonald arrived early and sat together near the back. Attorneys, landlords and tenants filled the six rows of wooden benches and waited quietly for the proceedings to begin at 8 a.m. sharp. When he resumed hearing eviction cases in July 2021, García welcomed legal aid workers from the University of Houston, who helped stall illegal evictions while moratoria and other diversion programs were in place. Another group wrote rental assistance checks to landlords and tenants on the spot, he said.
In one such case, a county judge found García had improperly directed a constable to evict a tenant instead of freezing the case for 60 days, theGarcía relegated legal aid workers to a small vestibule with no air conditioning between two sets of automatic sliding doors at the building’s entrance, away from the side door tenants are directed to enter. When they tried to set up inside the building, García moved their table himself.
The attorney, John Burger, is a regular in Harris County eviction courts, working for a firm that handles eviction cases on behalf of property owners all over the state, including the company that owns The Life at Jackson Square. For each case, a clerk called out the tenant’s name three times. Often, there was no response — an automatic win for the landlord.
She applied to the state rental assistance program but still hadn’t heard back, she said, and when she tried to negotiate with management, they moved forward with the eviction anyway.
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