evictions

Federal funds for New Mexico’s Emergency Rental Assistance Program are slated to run out this August. Winter Torres is the director of the New Mexico Eviction Prevention and Diversion Program, which helped get the money out across most of the state and is wrapping up this week. Torres told KUNM she sees New Mexico slipping back to pre-pandemic levels of eviction with fewer resources to keep people housed.

New Mexico’s Emergency Rental Assistance Program, which is backed by federal pandemic relief funds, is winding down and slated to end this summer. Those who work with it say the program allowed for rare and welcome flexibility. But now that it’s ending, they’re bracing for a wave of evictions.

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