Metropolitan St. Louis Equal Housing and Opportunity Council

The eviction crisis advocates fear is on the horizon will likely have a disproportionate impact on communities of color, single female-led households and households with children. That’s according to a new report from the Metropolitan St. Louis Equal Housing & Opportunity Council, which found that more than 5,000 evictions were filed in the city of St. Louis and St. Louis County between March 2020 and January 2021.

St. Louis Circuit Judge Rex Burlison and Sheriff Vernon Betts have agreed to temporarily halt evictions to allow people to seek rental and mortgage assistance. Housing advocates say the break is necessary, as many people have lost income during the coronavirus pandemic.

St. Louis has the fourth-highest mortgage denial rate for Blacks in the U.S., according to a new study. Compared to the region’s overall mortgage denial rate, Black borrowers in St. Louis are about three times more likely to have their loan applications rejected.

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Evictions used to be rare enough in the United States that the government never made an effort to track them on a federal level. That’s changing.On the…

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