""I'm not excited about the numbers," said BASTA's Shoshana Krieger, "but I think there's a lot of opportunities for us to be making inroads on this issue.""
""My team has been out door-knocking at night at properties where we have tenants associations, and they've seen tenants frantically packing boxes, saying that the manager threatened to call ICE if they didn't move out the next day," she continued. "All of those stories are captured in the numbers that I'm about to talk about.""
Eviction filings in Austin and Travis County have risen sharply since the 2020–21 moratorium ended, returning to pre-pandemic levels in 2022 and climbing through 2024 and early 2025. Travis County recorded 13,210 eviction filings in 2024, the highest on record. In the first three months of 2025 there were 10,545 filings compared with 9,305 in the same period last year, indicating continued increases. Typical case duration from filing to eviction is about 20 days. Many tenants move out before filings are recorded, and organizers report threats including managers threatening to call ICE. BASTA presented findings to the City Council Housing and Planning Committee and urged policy action to curb the trend.
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