A sweeping Housing Justice Package for upcoming General Assembly session was unveiled in Maryland Monday morning by a statewide coalition of rental housing advocates and state representatives.
A recent analysis by the consulting firm Stout estimated that between 100,000 and 200,000 Maryland renters are at risk of eviction. The total rent shortfall in Maryland could be between $206 million and $381 million by January, the report found.
Maryland’s low barriers for filing eviction actions make it an outlier. Eviction filing rates in neighboring states range from 5.3% in Pennsylvania to 16.9% in Delaware. Rates in New Jersey, the District of Columbia and Virginia range from 12.5% to 15.7%. Maryland’s rate in excess of 80% dwarfs them all.