The U.S. judiciary is set to rule any day whether the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) eviction moratorium extension is constitutional.
With millions of Americans struggling to pay rent, the CDC is touting the moratorium that is in effect through Oct. 3. The goal is to keep people off the street during the infectious-disease pandemic.
In some cases, mom-and-pop landlords with one or two tenants say not being able to evict is emotionally and financially paralyzing.
“There’s a lot of us out there that just need to reclaim our homes for our own personal reasons,” landlord Rosanna Morey told Fox News.
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Morey is fighting an aggressive form of blood cancer and tells Fox News she decided not to renew her tenant’s lease in June 2020. Morey and her tenant live in different sections of her Long Island home in us-regions. She wants her tenant out so family can move in.
“This is not a second-income home. This is not a property that we have that we’re making all this money,” she said.
Morey’s tenant declared hardship due to COVID-19, and Morey claims she’s now out $16,000 in rent.
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The U.S. Department of Justice wants to keep the moratorium in place. Attorney General Merrick Garland recently met with chief justices from 35 states’ highest courts to discuss eviction diversion methods.
