A bill signed into law Monday requires renters get a two-week notice before being evicted in Montgomery County.
Now, landlords have to notify renters 14 days before eviction overriding the six-day minimum mandated by the state. The state allows local jurisdictions increase the six-day requirement up to 14 days.
That means landlords now have to notify the county’s Department of Housing and Community Affairs of any scheduled evictions at least 14 days in advance.
The County Council unanimously passed the legislation last week.
“Every eviction is a set of policy failures,” the bill’s lead sponsor Councilmember Kristin Mink said ahead of the bill signing in Rockville. “And here we are working to get those numbers down to zero.”
County Sheriff Maxwell Uy, who leads the agency that carries out evictions, supports the bill.
“We are a community, and we’re all working at this together,” Uy said.
Though it might seem “pretty unusual,” Mink said, to have a sheriff speak at a bill signing that has to do with reducing evictions, Uy and his team have been “champions of trying to reduce the number of people who actually end up on the street despite having to do the job of the actual evictions,” by communicating with the county where possible.
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With the advanced notifications, not only will residents get to plan in advance, but the county will also be able to step in, said Mink.
Burtonsville resident Harold Hill, who has faced eviction in the past, said he personally knows 16 families facing eviction now just before Christmas. “For them, this legislation is not abstract.”
“It is not technical; it is not political. It is hope, it is time, and it is dignity,” said Hill.
County Executive Marc Elrich said evictions are on the rise in the county. In fiscal year 2021 there were 254 evictions. In FY25 there were 1,362. County shelters are already full, and homelessness is expected to continue to increase, he said.
Evictions are not just about losing housing, Elrich said — “you lose everything sometimes.”
“The best way to reduce homelessness is to not have people be evicted,” said Councilmember Will Jawando, a co-sponsor of the bill. “When you get to the eviction point… you’re in a really tough space, and it’s really hard to pick up the pieces of your life and you can lead to a further downward spiral.”
“We have seen tenants outside in the rain, in the heat, snow,” said Tonia Chestnut, President of the Enclave Tenant Association. “These are things we want to prevent.”
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