Months after the Centers for Disease Control issued a nationwide halt on certain evictions, advocates and lawyers say the order isn’t helping all Maryland tenants.
Interpretation of the CDC order can vary from judge to judge, said Matt Hill, an attorney with the Public Justice Center. Hill, who represents tenants in eviction cases, said he’s seen a rise in landlords simply terminating or not-renewing leases instead of going through the normal failure-to-pay rent eviction cases.
“It’s not being applied consistently to all types of eviction actions,” Hill said of the order.
And even though Maryland courts have issued their own halt to failure-to-pay rent cases through the end of the year, tenants are still being evicted, Hill said.
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