Federal eviction moratoriums lasted nearly 18 months, from early 2020 through late August 2021. Even after the federal eviction moratorium ended, many cities and states continued preventing landlords from enforcing their lease contracts.
Some cities went so far as to use federal tax dollars to give free legal aid to tenants to fight lawful evictions long after moratoriums ended. And that’s even after taxpayers paid for nearly 10 million rent assistance payments, albeit months after it did many landlords any good.
But that’s behind us, right? Never to happen again?
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