Evictions increased across New York City, with the monthly rate of legal lockouts beginning to mirror pre-pandemic numbers in the second half of 2023, according to the Gothamist.
City marshals completed roughly 12,000 residential evictions last year as unpaid rent mounted and the court system worked through a backlog of cases, according to a data analysis by the news outlet of records filed with the city Department of Investigation as of January 4.
Evictions nearly tripled in 2023 as compared to 2022, when the end of statewide tenant protections enacted early in the pandemic triggered a steady rise in the number of legal lockouts across the five boroughs, Gothamist reported.
