The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Fifth Judicial District of Pennsylvania (Allegheny County) · Pittsburgh · Pennsylvania
- Level
- Court
- Authority
- Pa.R.J.A. No. 1952(B)(2)(m) and (s)
- Issued
- 2021-08-04 Aug. 4, 2021
- Effective
- Granted by Supreme Court order of Aug. 6, 2021 (recited in MET-PIT-039) (read as 2021-08-06)
- End
- n/a (request) (read as 2021-09-30)
- In force
- Aug. 6, 2021 to Sept. 30, 2021
- Quarters
- 2021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Courts and public offices
- Addressees
- Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
- Magisterial District Courts
- landlords and tenants
- Functions reached
- Collection
- Pittsburgh MET-PIT
Operative words
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused ongoing economic losses to tenants and landlords and is anticipated to result in an unprecedented number of potential evictions.... Allegheny County and the City of Pittsburgh have been awarded over 80 million dollars in federal Emergency Rental Assistance Program (ERAP) funding... On February 24, 2021, the Fifth Judicial District, by Emergency Court Order, established procedures in the Magisterial District Courts to allow for sufficient time for tenants and landlords to apply for and receive this funding... This Order was reissued with minor changes on March 31, 2021, but has since expired.... The proposed procedures would allow for the initial hearings in Landlord/Tenant cases to be scheduled up to 15 days beyond the time set forth in Pa.R.C.P.M.D.J. 504
Enforcement
Notes
Records that over 12,000 ERAP applications had been received and about 60 million dollars remained to be distributed, with a 30-to-45-day processing time, in August 2021.