Housing is cheaper in Indiana, compared with other states, but the state’s eviction rate is still one of the highest in the country.
Around 70,000 evictions are filed against Indiana residents each year. A new report outlines how courts could reduce that filings rate. Advocates and lawyers say that would give much needed relief to families.
“If you give them some time, they can find the money to catch up on rent,” Fran Quigley, lawyer and one of the report’s authors, said. “If they can’t find the money to catch up on rent, they can find another place to live. So the family doesn’t end up in a car, or in a shelter or worse yet on the street.”…