Housing court cases are set to resume, with the court system facing an estimated backlog of about 200,000 cases that were placed on hold due to the pandemic-related eviction ban.
The majority of the pending cases are for non-payment of rent.
“We are sounding the alarm today in the face of what could be an avalanche of evictions to crash over tenants in this city, on a scale that we’ve never seen,” Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine said at a virtual press conference on January 18.
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