Despite an eviction moratorium that was intended to keep people housed during the pandemic, landlords filed more than 95,000 evictions in just eight major cities across the South last year.  With the passing of the most recent stimulus bill, Senate Democrats approved more than $45 billion in rental and mortgage assistance, but it won’t be enough to stave off what housing advocates call the “tsunami of evictions” still to come.

But the fight to keep people housed didn’t begin when the country shut down, and it won’t end when people can safely dine in restaurants. 

The solution to the current crisis requires novel tactics just as much as it builds on old ones, tenants’ unions and advocacy groups say—particularly in the South.

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