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The Neighborhood Building Owners Alliance recently held a
webinar on the significant developments involving evictions.
President Michael Glasser said evicting a tenant is a last
resort.
“We don’t get there easily, we do it painfully,” said Glasser.
“We don’t want to be filing evictions, we try many strategies
and approaches to avoid filing, and as we all know sometimes
it’s just necessary.”
Attorney Michael Zink with the firm Starr, Bejgeirt, Zink and
Rowells said that the funds could cut down on evictions.
“Rental assistance, whatever form it ends up taking in the
larger picture in the upcoming months, I would hope that it is
reinstated, and to an extent, expedited,” said Zink.
Plaintiffs in eviction cases may now use special process servers
immediately, and not first place the case with the sheriff for
service.
Peter Selke, director of the Strategic Response Unit with the
Illinois Housing Development Authority, said the latest round of
funding is not intended to benefit just the tenants.
“We are kind of funding an ecosystem or infrastructure of
sorts,” said Selke. “It’s not just for the tenant, we know that
housing providers need their funds to pay their rent and
insurance and all the other costs.”
Illinois provided over a half billion dollars in taxpayer-funded
rental assistance to more than 57,000 applicants in the Illinois
Housing Development Authority’s rental assistance program last
year.
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