Renters: In Houston — the state’s largest city — nearly 40,000 eviction cases have been filed since March 2020, according to Princeton’s Eviction Lab.

 By Katy O'Donnell

07/31/2021 07:00 AM EDT

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On average, Houston sees about 58,400 filings a year, suggesting a surge in filings is likely as the city gets back to normal.

Ohio has not enacted any special protection for tenants, and nearly 134,000 renters say they are very or somewhat likely to face eviction. Florida’s state ban lapsed in October, and more than 350,000 people are behind on rent.

And while New York has strong tenant protections in place through August, it’s also been among the slowest states to award relief money, distributing none of the first tranche of funds provided by Congress through June. There is no public data on New York’s disbursal of any second tranche funding.

State and local governments say it has been a struggle to put federal aid in the hands of tenants and landlords because they were forced to come up with relief programs from scratch.

The apparent aid bottleneck in New York has raised fears that it will face its own massive spike in evictions a month from now when a state ban expires. More than 860,000 tenants in the state say they are behind on rent.

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