For instance, one report, entitled Human Rights
at Home: Miami's Housing Crisis and its Perpetuation of Poverty, analyzed raw data collected by Legal Services of Greater Miami and the Community Justice Project to show how Florida's rent deposit statute disparately impacts low - income people's ability to defend themselves: even if a tenant has a sudden financial
hardship to overcome or alleges legitimate concerns about housing conditions, that tenant must deposit all the unpaid rent into the
court to even have the dispute
heard.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that the originally scheduled trial date is continued for any reason, and upon motion of any party, the
court after
hearing shall require the tenant or occupant claiming under this section to deposit with the clerk of the
court, the plaintiff's attorney, or other secure depository each month (or
at such other intervals as the
court deems just) the amounts due for use and occupancy, calculated according to the fair market value of the premises, which amounts shall be held in escrow pending final disposition, unless the
court determines that such requirement would result in undue
hardship to the tenant or occupant.