The Legislature’s appropriation for rental assistance comes nearly seven months after the pandemic began and after record unemployment.
Health
Where you live matters: Economic and social factors can affect your ability to live a healthy life
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Report: All 82 Mississippi counties have health issues, but some fare better than others. Food deserts, child poverty and median income are the strongest indicators of a county’s health outcomes.
Cartoon
Marshall Ramsey: Eviction
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Expedited evictions process: Bill to eliminate 10-day grace period for delinquent tenants awaits governor’s signature.
2019 Legislative Session
Expedited evictions process: Bill to eliminate 10-day grace period for delinquent tenants awaits governor’s signature
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Proponents say measure “clarifies that they can’t be left in the property indefinitely.” But critics argue that policies making it easier for landlords to evict will only add to Mississippi’s affordable housing problem.
Government
Eviction bill advances that shortens time for delinquent tenants to vacate
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Would allow for a warrant to be issued immediately upon an eviction judgement
eviction
‘System doesn’t work for anybody’: Repeat evictions take toll on tenants, courts and landlords
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Repeat eviction judgments are commonplace across Mississippi – ranked eighth in the nation for evictions – and justice courts are where most land.
Mississippi Roundup
Methodology used for report on Mississippi evictions
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In the reporting of “Fighting to keep my place’: How a housing program to help families out of poverty may trap some in it,” Mississippi Today used the following methodology:
Using Eviction Lab – a Princeton-based research team – data that aggregated every eviction across the nation from 2000 to 2016 and ranked Jackson fifth and Mississippi eighth highest for eviction rates, we analyzed trends and demographic data from the same 17-year window and narrowed our focus to DeSoto and Hinds counties. Tunica had the state’s highest eviction records according to the data, but we excluded it from original analysis due to its small population. We specifically zeroed in on Horn Lake, Southaven and Jackson – all of which consistently ranked highest for mid- to large-size cities for per-capita evictions compared to their county and the state overall, and represent very different parts of the state. In a Mississippi Today analysis of every eviction in DeSoto County from 2006 to July 2018 (more than 17,000 eviction court filings), we found a high rate of repeat evictions in justice court. Repeat evictions differ from estimates of actual removals, calculated by the Eviction Lab.
Equity
Eviction note: How a housing program to help families out of poverty may trap some in it
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Lax oversight in a federal housing program leaves a trail of evictions and unanswered questions over its benefit to desperate families