Evictions, rising after rent assistance ran out, back near pre-pandemic levels in Maryland

Several times a week these days, the woman who helped keep a roof over people’s heads during the pandemic gets a similar email from residents: “Do you have any rental assistance money? I need help.” Julie Peters, now the chief communications officer at SHORE UP Inc. and formerly the program manager for the rental assistance program at the Salisbury-based organization, helped her agency, in a few years, administer more than $8 million to more than 1,200 renter households on Maryland’s Eastern Shore.