New York Becomes the Latest State to Drop Its COVID Restrictions
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Crashing website and impenetrable government bureaucracy greet the tenants and landlords trying to access billions in federally funded rent relief.
The latest ruling from the a U.S. District Court in D.C. finds the agency vastly exceeded its powers in banning landlords from trying to evict non-paying tenants.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau claims to be enforcing a law that prohibits "false or misleading representations."
The Massachusetts Congresswoman is a two-time supporter of the Rent and Mortgage Cancelation Act.
The Founders could not have possibly imagined the Commerce Clause covering an eviction moratorium.
The agency will be extending its controversial eviction moratorium through the end of June.
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The national eviction moratorium and Arizona’s business restrictions were based on dubious assertions of authority.
A nationwide ban on evictions is well outside the congressional power to regulate interstate commerce, ruled U.S. District Judge J. Campbell Barker on Thursday.
Biden's willingness to extend a nationwide eviction moratorium, while declining to mandate masks nationwide, demonstrates a worrying inconsistency in his views on presidential powers.
Eviction bans were enacted as an emergency public health measure. They’re quickly becoming a permanent policy.
A growing number of states are enshrining eviction moratoriums into laws that won't expire until well into next year.
Congress' extension of a federal ban on evictions does little to address the legal problems with the policy.
Despite fears that a pandemic-ravaged economy would force renters from their homes in droves, evictions were down nationwide at the end of summer.
A mounting number of lawsuits are challenging the Trump administration's claim that it can adopt any policy it deems reasonably necessary to combat the pandemic.
The National Apartment Association has joined a lawsuit brought by four individual landlords arguing the CDC's nationwide eviction moratorium is both illegal and unconstitutional.
A new lawsuit argues that the city and state's eviction bans are an unconstitutional impairment of contracts unrelated to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Trump administration's new nationwide eviction moratorium provokes a backlash from some congressional Republicans.
The Trump administration is pushing the envelope of its executive authority by issuing a new blanket eviction moratorium for all rental properties nationwide.
Democrats in Congress are floating plans for billions more in rental assistance, and a blanket nationwide moratorium on evictions to forestall a potential housing crisis during the pandemic.
What started as a largely uncontroversial emergency response to the COVID-19 pandemic has now become subject of intense legal and policy battles.
Democrats' HEROES Act is mostly about messaging. And it sends all the wrong messages on housing.
Yes, tenants are losing their jobs because of the COVID-19 shutdown, but forcing businesses to provide services for free would have a ripple effect.
Emergency measures can easily become routine policy.