In a statement, the head of the Indiana Apartment Association said that the city's top priority should be getting funding to renters. The city plans to use roughly $800,000 to $900,000 from its federal relief under the American Rescue Plan Act to fund the pilot program for one year. City officials are still working out details to provide the program in Perry, Center and Franklin townships. "This program will encourage and promote landlords and tenants to have communication, and to make sure that we create soft landings for people that do have to move," said Judge Kimberly Bacon of Lawrence Township small claims court, one of two that have already piloted the program.Īll but three of Marion County's nine townships should begin the program next week. The new program is expected to assist an unknown number of residents facing eviction once the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention moratorium ends after July 31, nearly 11 months after the federal agency first issued a nationwide order to halt evictions related to the nonpayment of rent during the pandemic. Staffers from Indiana Legal Services, the Neighborhood Christian Legal Clinic and the Indianapolis Legal Aid Society will be available to provide legal advice, help with mediation between landlords and renters, and connect tenants to the city's rental assistance program.Īn awful year, a silver lining: COVID relief funds 'fully changed' Indy homelessness fight The tenant advocacy project will provide legal aid in six of the nine township small claims courts where eviction proceedings are heard, city officials announced on Thursday at the City-County Building. Indianapolis is expanding a new pilot program to provide legal staff throughout Marion County's township courts in an effort to keep renters housed as city officials brace for a surge in eviction filings once the expansive federal moratorium ends this week. Watch Video: Living on fixed income increases anxiety with eviction possibility
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