While landlords fight eviction moratoriums at the local, state and federal levels, President Donald Trump’s administration has issued a clarification that could allow some eviction proceedings to begin sooner than expected.
Though the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s national moratorium on evictions remains intact through Dec. 31, the agency updated its information page on the moratorium late Friday night to clarify that landlords are allowed to begin eviction proceedings in court before the ban expires, The Washington Post reports.
The clarification may have been issued in response to the wave of legal challenges mounted against the moratorium, including one joined by the landlord trade group National Apartment Association, the Post reports. While the CDC’s moratorium, which the agency said it put in place to prevent a public health crisis that an increase in the country’s homeless population could cause, has indeed forestalled an eviction wave, it hasn’t been supported by rental assistance legislation that both landlords and tenants agree is necessary.
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