Posts Tagged ‘Las Vegas’

From COVID-19 a Morally Bankrupt Town (Sin City) Go’s Upside–Down, Who Is Next?… 250,000 Las Vegans Face Eviction Next Month  Las Vegas is expected to become one of the focal points of the eviction crisis as nearly a quarter-million people could be removed from their homes in the coming weeks, reported AP News.  The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports a perfect storm of factors in Clark County including high unemployment, a high percentage of renters, collapsed travel and tourism industry, expiration of the state’s eviction mortarium, and the end of federal unemployment benefits could result in an eviction wave beginning as early as next month.  Las Vegas research group Guinn Center and the COVID-19 Eviction Defense Project in Denver estimates about 250,000 people in Clark County, or approximately 10% of the population, are at risk of eviction in September.  Nancy Brune, Guinn Center executive director, called the situation “a bad confluence of events.”  Brune said the virus-induced downturn had severely…