Op-Ed (Nevada)
Hugh Jackson
Nevada Independent
February 3, 2017
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Tags: Housing: Eviction
Organizations mentioned/involved: Legal Aid Center of Southern Nevada
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There are a lot of reasons why Southern Nevada’s eviction rate is among the nation’s highest.
The transiency of Southern Nevada’s population has long been a convenient explanation for everything from crime to poverty to educational performance.
Yet there is no doubt that in good times and in bad, Las Vegas is a place where a lot of people come, and a lot of people go. “When you go, sometimes you skip out on the rent if you are poor,” said Barbara Buckley, the former Assembly speaker who directs the Southern Nevada Legal Aid Office, and thus knows both how eviction law was made and how it’s executed. If someone skips, the landlord may file an eviction case with the court because it can be more easily resolved than an issue of abandonment, Buckley said in an email exchange.