Through an executive order, the Trump administration has halted evictions through the end of this year.
Allowing people to remain in their homes will promote self-isolation and social distancing to continue and help contain the COVID virus, said the CDC, which announced the ban on 2 September.
The administration also feared a rising tide of homeless families might drown the president’s re-election hopes.
A previous moratorium expired, along with federal weekly unemployment payments, at the end of July. Congress has been unable to agree on a continuation.
TRENDPOST: The ban to thwart mass evictions does not address how landlords will pay mortgages and upkeep expenses and taxes without getting income from tenants.
And, it counters President Trump’s insistence that the COVID virus has been defeated and the economy is “going up like a rocket ship.”
