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"Black individuals make up about 21% of all renters, but they make up 35% of all defendants on eviction cases," says Peter Hepburn, a researcher for Princeton University's Eviction Lab.

Some landlords are evicting tenants despite an order from the CDC aimed at stemming the spread of COVID-19 by preventing evictions. That has led to calls to strengthen protections.

With rental assistance on the way, communities are scrambling to get ready to actually hand out the money to people who need it.

The economic toll of the coronavirus pandemic has wreaked havoc on the financial lives of many Texans, leaving many renters unable to pay rent.

Families are getting put out on the street despite an eviction protection order from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Advocates say the order needs to be extended and strengthened.

Communities of color are especially struggling to keep their homes. While more than half of white Texans are highly confident in being able to pay rent, only 21% of Black Texans and 14% of Hispanic Texans say the same.

Housing experts expect a wave of evictions when a national moratorium expires at the end of December. To get ahead of the surge, the City of Dallas is piloting a legal assistance program with Legal Aid of NorthWest Texas.

Building and Strengthening Tenant Action, or BASTA, has spent the past two weeks placing 10,000 plastic signs on the door handles of renters living in buildings where landlords have filed evictions over the past few months.

Since Sept. 17, court citations include information on how to apply for protections. But some eviction cases had already begun. And the moratorium will only delay proceedings for some renters.

Four positions on the state's highest civil court are on the ballot this fall.

Austin is known as a city of renters — more than half of residents lease a place to live. And each day, a dozen Travis County families are evicted. Audrey…

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