evictions

Jonathan Herman thought he found a stable apartment in Norwalk, where he’d been living for nine years.   He and his wife were hoping to stay there while shopping for a home now that they had just had a baby. Just days before Christmas, though, those plans got derailed after they received a notice that their lease wasn’t being...

Evictions are rising in Connecticut. So far this year, the highest number of eviction filings in the state were in Hartford.

Evictions are rising in Connecticut. “We’re seeing a very large number of evictions right now,” said Dahlia Romanow, Connecticut Fair Housing Center staff attorney. Eviction filings in the state were around 20,000 in the years leading up to the pandemic with 20,597 in 2017, 19,940 in 2018 and 19,106 in 2019. Then, there was a big drop with 6,429 in…