“You can imagine the upheaval of losing your home, especially when you don’t have the means to provide another one right away, is super stressful and also has health effects.' Texas regulations favor landlords over tenants, and people are suffering.
Miguel Valencia has a court date on July 29. He’s facing eviction from his home in Garland, just northeast of Dallas. He’s two months behind on the rent for his house, which has been in disrepair due to foundation problems since he moved there in 2019.
Evictions are at or above pre-pandemic levels in the state’s largest cities, according to data from Eviction Lab, which tracks weekly evictions in 31 cities and six states across the U.S. . Houston ranks second among the cities the lab tracks, behind New York City. Since the start of the pandemic, the South Texas city has seen more than 101,000 eviction filings. The raw numbers are stark, but it’s worth noting that evictions are naturally higher in more populous cities.
“Texas tends to be on the more landlord-friendly, more eviction-friendly side of the spectrum,” said Peter Hepburn, a research fellow with the Eviction Lab. “There are a number of regulations that make the eviction process relatively cheap, fast, and easy for landlords to pursue. Those sorts of regulations, those sorts of statutes tend to result in higher eviction filing rates.”
Valencia, the Garland resident who’s facing eviction, found a place for his family to go for the near term. It’s about an hour and a half away from Garland, where Valencia works as a warehouse supervisor. But he has no choice but to commute. Evictions are traumatic events. In some cases, residents are escorted out of their homes by law enforcement, their belongings piled up outside.
“What we’re seeing right now is kind of a perfect storm of bad elements leading to rising and evictions pretty much across the board in the state of Texas,” said Ben Martin, research director for Texas Housers.
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