Over 11m Americans risk eviction as housing protection expires in June

More than 11m Americans who are behind on their rent could risk eviction as the national housing protection scheme expires in June.

There is currently a national eviction ban in place which was approved in September which is set to be lifted on 30 June. The ban reduced the normal number of eviction filings by at least half, reported CNBC on Monday.

Around 15% of adult renters are behind on their housing payments which has led to landlords criticising the CDC’s policy, claiming they can’t afford to house people for free.

Advocates for the scheme said that lifting the ban is a terrible idea at this time as both property owners and tenants could suffer the consequences, with states struggling to distribute the $45bn in rental assistance allocated by Congress to address the crisis.

The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities also found that states would be affected differently. There are nearly 1 in 4 renters are behind on their housing payments in Florida and South Carolina, compared with 6% in Maine and Kentucky.

Minorities would also suffer more from the end of the ban as black renters are nearly four times as likely to be behind on rent than white renters.

People over the age of 65 are also heavily at risk as over 100,000 people in that age range are expected to be evicted within the next two months.