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November 2, 2021

Nevada Current
Michael Lyle

The Legal Aid Center of Southern Nevada was recently designated to provide statewide assistance and support for victims. Lawmakers passed Assembly Bill 481 in the 2021 Legislative Session that enabled the Division of Child and Family Services to create the first Statewide Victim Assistance Center to offer support services, training and technical assistance to communities.

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May 20, 2021

KLAS News
Caroline Bleakley, Joe Moeller

Thousands of Southern Nevadans are struggling to stay in their homes and could be facing eviction, but local leaders and agencies have collaborated to help those facing an eviction notice. Gov. Steve Sisolak’s eviction moratorium expires on May 31, and the CDC’s eviction moratorium expires on July 1.

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June 1, 2021

Las Vegas Review Journal
Subrina Hudson

The holiday weekend finished on a low note for many Nevadans who have been unable to pay rent since last year. The state’s eviction moratorium ended Monday, allowing landlords to serve eviction notices for nonpayment of rent.

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June 9, 2021

Las Vegas Sun
Hillary Davis

Social services providers across Southern Nevada are encouraging tenants still struggling to pay their rent to apply for pandemic housing relief before it’s too late.

Jim Berchtold, an attorney with the Legal Aid Center of Southern Nevada, told a crowd gathered Wednesday morning for a housing resource presentation at the Desert Breeze Community Center that an estimated 100,000 to 140,000 Nevadans are at risk of eviction. Nevada’s eviction moratorium ended on May 31, and eviction notices are going out in local courts.

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April 16, 2021

The Nevada Independent
Jannelle Calderon

Leaders in the Legislature say they are considering a way to speed up the backlogged process of distributing hundreds of millions of dollars of federal rental assistance, but no bill has been introduced with 10 weeks left until a government eviction moratorium lifts. Senate Majority Leader Nicole Cannizzaro (D-Las Vegas) said lawmakers are working on a plan with the Supreme Court and the counties to make sure that rental assistance funds reach those in need, but did not offer details about what that would look like.

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April 23, 2021

Las Vegas Review-Journal
Sabrina Schnur

The Vegas Strong Resiliency Center was recognized Friday by the U.S. attorney general’s office for its work with victims of the Oct. 1, 2017, mass shooting on the Strip.

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March 19, 2021

Nevada Independent
Janelle Calderon

Two weeks before the expiration of a statewide eviction moratorium, Clark County says it has more than 17,000 applications for rental assistance money still waiting to be processed. The update on the status of federal funds set aside to help people pay overdue rent came at a virtual town hall on Wednesday hosted by Clark County Commissioners Tick Segerblom and William McCurdy II and Las Vegas Councilwoman Olivia Diaz. 

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March 4, 2021

Las Vegas Review-Journal
Bill Dentzer

A bill that would automatically seal eviction records for nonpayment of rent during the pandemic and require landlords to give some tenants longer notice for a no-cause eviction drew vocal opposition in a legislative hearing Thursday from landlord groups..

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January 21, 2021

8 NewsNow
Orko Manna, Carolyn Williams

President Joe Biden signed more than a dozen executive orders during the first day of his term. But how much of an impact will those decisions have on Nevadans? One order of particular importance to the Silver State fortifies the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) immigration program, which shields certain people who came to the U.S. as children from deportation.

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December 8, 2020

Nevada Independent
Michael Lyle

Like many people during the pandemic, Cristina found herself abruptly unemployed for the first time in five years after the embroidery business she worked for closed down. But the $1,500 a month in rent she pays, which has kept her and her three children, ages 13, 17 and 18, housed during the health crisis, was still due each month.

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November 17, 2020

Nevada Independent
Michelle Rindells

Enrique González was already facing tough times when he had his hours as a cook at the Aria Resort and Casino cut to two or three days a week and saw the unemployment checks that buoyed him earlier in the pandemic dwindle to nothing some weeks. But he was still shocked last Tuesday morning when authorities showed up to his door, gave him 15 minutes to grab essentials and booted him from the home he’s lived in for five years. González has a pending application for government-funded rental assistance and has invoked a federal eviction moratorium in effect until the end of the year, but it was still ineffective against a court order that he be removed.

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October 29, 2020

KTNV Las Vegas

Las Vegas residents facing summary eviction action may avoid a trip to the Regional Justice Center by using online filing from a computer or cellular telephone. The process is user-friendly; tenants will answer a series of questions and their answers will automatically prepare the required legal documents.

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October 16, 2020

Las Vegas Review-Journal
Subrina Hudson

Renters looking to resolve an eviction notice can skip being in line at the Clark County Regional Justice Center in downtown Las Vegas. A new service by the Civil Law Self-Help Center allows Clark County tenants to file their response to an eviction notice electronically. Tenants previously needed to visit Justice Court to file their signed paperwork.

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