Louisiana SCR 58: HOUSING: Requests that the mayor and the City Council of the city of New Orleans study the rate of evictions in New Orleans including causes.

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2019 Regular Session ENROLLED
SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 58
BY SENATOR BISHOP AND REPRESENTATIVE BOUIE
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
To urge and request the mayor and the city council of the city of New Orleans to study and
make recommendations for changes to statutory law that will help to reduce
excessive eviction rates of household renters in the city.
WHEREAS, according to the report by Jane Place Neighborhood Sustainability
Initiative and Professor Davida Finger, Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, one
out of every nineteen renter households in New Orleans faced a court-ordered eviction in
2017; and
WHEREAS, the overall household eviction rate in New Orleans is nearly double the
rate of evictions nationally, with some neighborhoods experiencing evictions close to four
times the national rate, and in 2017 the eviction rate in New Orleans was 5.2% while the
national average was only 2.8%; and
WHEREAS, between 2015 and 2018, it was estimated that over 24,000 individuals
were displaced due to a court-ordered eviction.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Legislature of Louisiana does hereby
urge and request the mayor and the city council of the city of New Orleans to study and
make recommendations to the legislature by January 1, 2020, for changes of statutory law
that will help reduce excessive eviction rates.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to the
mayor and city council of the city of New Orleans.
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
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