Opinion

Tenant Eviction Moratoriums Create Hardships for Property Owners

6/7/2021|Updated: 6/8/2021

Commentary

When former President Donald Trump directed the HHS secretary and CDC director to consider halting residential evictions in August 2020 and the CDC followed the next month with its “Temporary Halt in Residential Evictions to Prevent the Further Spread of COVID-19” order (pdf), it made perfect sense. The order prevents landlords from evicting tenants for non-payment of rent if they have been economically hurt by the pandemic and make less than $99,000 per year. The loss of millions of U.S. jobs, almost overnight, threatened to increase evictions, homelessness, and the spread of COVID-19.

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Martha Rosenberg

Author

Martha Rosenberg is a nationally recognized reporter and author whose work has been cited by the Mayo Clinic Proceedings, Public Library of Science Biology, and National Geographic. Rosenberg’s FDA expose, "Born with a Junk Food Deficiency," established her as a prominent investigative journalist. She has lectured widely at universities throughout the United States and resides in Chicago.