The state eviction protection policy expired on Friday

CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) – The state eviction protection policy that was enacted to help residents during the pandemic expired on Friday, and evictions are already on the rise. Under the now-expired law Chapter 257, people were unable to be evicted from their homes if they had applied for rental assistance and were waiting for it to come through. Eviction filings are already reaching pre-pandemic levels once again and have nearly doubled over the last year. A recent analysis of Massachusetts Housing Court data by The Boston Globe found that eviction filings have almost doubled from last year ahead of the…