Protesters demand help to stop St. Louis evictions

1 month, 1 week ago

Officer injured at Ferguson protest shows improvement, transferred to rehab

ST. LOUIS — The Ferguson, Missouri, police officer who was badly injured during a protest on the 10th anniversary of Michael Brown’s death was moved to a rehabilitation hospital Tuesday, still not speaking but showing significant improvement, according to a family friend. More than 100 officers and first responders from several St. Louis-area departments escorted an ambulance that took Officer …

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6 months ago

She fought remodel evictions for years. Now she’s the one being evicted

LA Times

Maria Lopez faces eviction from her home in Long Beach after a new landlord is planning a substantial remodel. Working with the Long Beach Tenants Union, Lopez organized dozens of renters facing “substantial remodel” evictions across her hometown, speaking at City Council meetings and leading protests to draw attention to the rule, which allows landlords to evict tenants if they …

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9 months, 1 week ago

New York City won't offer 'right to shelter' to some immigrants after 30 days in deal with advocates

The Independent

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9 months, 1 week ago

New York City won’t offer ‘right to shelter’ to some immigrants after 30 days in deal with advocates

Associated Press

NEW YORK — Some immigrants in New York City could be formally denied emergency housing after officials and human rights advocates agreed to compromise on the interpretation of a unique legal decision that gives the “ right to shelter ” to anyone who asks, the mayor announced Friday. “This settlement safeguards the right to shelter in the consent decree, ensuring …

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10 months ago

Black Chicagoans slam Mayor Johnson for 'replacing' them with migrants, demanding 'REPARATIONS' carve-out on $6,000-a-year property taxes that whites, Asians and Hispanics would still have to pay

Daily Mail

Chicago activists are bashing Mayor Brandon Johnson for trying to replace blacks with migrants, and demanding an exemption from the $6,000-per-year property taxes that other groups would still have to pay. Howard Ray, a Chicago reparations activist, this week revived his Reconstruction Era Reparation Act Now campaign for carve-outs from property taxes for black households, saying Chicago's migrant surge was …

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10 months, 2 weeks ago

At risk of eviction in L.A.? These outreach workers are looking for you

LA Times

Bianca Lopez, an outreach worker with We Are L.A., a project of the Mayor’s Fund for Los Angeles, drops off fliers at an apartment complex in Los Angeles. Lopez and Jackson, who work with We Are L.A., a program of the nonprofit Mayor’s Fund for Los Angeles, were looking to help tenants avoid eviction by offering resources such as legal …

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10 months, 2 weeks ago

A record number of Americans can’t afford their rent. Lawmakers are scrambling to help

Associated Press

DENVER — Single mom Caitlyn Colbert watched as rent for her two-bedroom apartment doubled, then tripled and then quadrupled over a decade in Denver — from $750 to $3,374 last year. “Every month you just gotta budget and then you still fall short,” she said, adding what became a monthly refrain: “Well, this month at least we have $13 left.” …

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10 months, 3 weeks ago

L.A. tenants awaiting emergency rental assistance receive eviction protection

LA Times

The Los Angeles City Council moved to protect tenants who are waiting for emergency rental assistance from being evicted. The Los Angeles City Council adopted an ordinance Friday that prevents the eviction of tenants who are waiting to receive emergency rental assistance from the city. Rental arrears from Oct. 1, 2021, to Jan. 31, 2023, were due Thursday, the same …

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10 months, 3 weeks ago

What L.A. renters should know now that COVID tenant protections are gone

LA Times

Bianca Lopez, 25, left, an outreach worker, and La Bomba Jackson, coordinator with We Are Los Angeles, a project of the Mayor’s Fund for Los Angeles, shown with Maria Amezquita, of the Mayor’s Fund for Los Angeles, far right, inform tenants of their rights at an apartment complex on Jan. 18, 2024. Most renter protection programs launched during the pandemic …

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10 months, 3 weeks ago

Chicago's migrant population swells to 34,000: Mayor Brandon Johnson asks suburban mayors for help as Gov. Greg Abbott's buses bypass the Windy City and drop them off in nearby towns

Daily Mail

Chicago's migrant crisis is creeping into the city's suburbs as Texas Governor Greg Abbott's buses bypass the city center with 34,000 people arriving since 2004. After Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson announced strict guidelines for buses dropping people in the city center, Texas governor Greg Abbott started busing migrants from the border straight to the suburbs, bypassing the city entirely. Progressive …

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10 months, 4 weeks ago

L.A. City Council votes to protect tenants while they await rental assistance

LA Times

The L.A. City Council moved to protect renters waiting to find out if they will receive financial aid. After a lengthy discussion, the Los Angeles City Council voted Friday to prohibit the eviction of tenants whose rental assistance applications have been approved but who have not yet received their funds. The City Council motion, introduced by Councilmembers Eunisses Hernandez and …

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11 months, 1 week ago

Missouri man who spent nearly 28 years in prison on a wrongful conviction sues St. Louis, police

Associated Press

ST. LOUIS — A Missouri man who spent nearly 28 years in prison until a judge determined he was wrongfully convicted filed a lawsuit on Wednesday, alleging that St. Louis police officers “detained, arrested, and framed him for a murder he did not commit.” Lamar Johnson, 50, seeks unspecified damages in the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in St. …

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11 months, 3 weeks ago

Chicago's progressive Mayor Brandon Johnson blasts Texas Gov. Greg Abbott for causing 'chaos' by flying migrants to Windy City... despite previously painting it as welcoming haven for the undocumented

Daily Mail

Brandon Johnson has blasted Greg Abbott for flying migrants to the Windy City - despite previously painting it as a haven for the undocumented. Chicago 's progressive Mayor Brandon Johnson is being called out for painting the Windy City as welcoming to migrants as he continues to blame Texas Governor Greg Abbott for causing chaos by shipping them to his …

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1 year ago

Chicago lawmakers are slammed for blocking efforts to put sanctuary city status on ballot after Windy City was inundated by 20,000 migrants

Daily Mail

Chicago's Democrat leaders have been accused of hiding from voters in a city buckling under a migrant crisis after they blocked a vote on ditching its sanctuary city status. Mayor Brandon Johnson ordered his lieutenants to quash a bid to put the controversial 'Welcoming City Ordinance' to a referendum on Chicago's March primary ballot. Mayor Brandon Johnson ordered his lieutenants …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Chicago is so unpleasant migrants are fleeing BACK to Venezuela after being dumped in shelters and refused jobs, with 20,700 border crossers so-far bused to Dem-run 'sanctuary city'

Daily Mail

Chicago has become so unpleasant that migrants are fleeing back to Venezuela after being dumped in shelters and refused better paying jobs. The Lone Star State's Governor Greg Abbott sent migrants to Chicago and other Democrat-run cities because of their proud status as 'sanctuary cities.' Venezuela-born Michael Castejon, 39, and his family have been sleeping on the floors of police …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Big city mayors get audience with administration officials to pitch a request for help with migrants

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Biden administration officials hosted big city mayors at the White House on Thursday to discuss how to manage a growing number of migrants, one day after those leaders sent a letter asking for more federal help. Denver Mayor Mike Johnston and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson met with White House chief of staff Jeff Zients and Homeland Security Department …

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1 year, 2 months ago

New York City limiting migrant families with children to 60-day shelter stays to ease strain on city

LA Times

New York City Mayor Eric Adams talks to the media in front of the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe on Oct. 4 in Mexico City. New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced Monday that he is limiting shelter stays for migrant families with children to 60 days, bidding to ease pressure on a city housing system overwhelmed by a …

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1 year, 2 months ago

NYC mayor to residents of Puebla, Mexico: 'Mi casa es su casa,' but 'there's no more room'

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1 year, 2 months ago

How The St. Louis Nuclear Waste Problem Is Ignoring Black People

Huff Post

Imagine waking up to find men in hazmat suits on rooftops and station wagons in your neighborhood, spraying an unknown chemical into your front yard. While this sounds like the plot of a horror movie, it’s the very real recollection of former residents of a St. Louis housing complex. An ongoing investigation by The Missouri Independent, The Associated Press and …

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1 year, 3 months ago

‘Stop Cop City’ petition campaign in limbo after signatures presented to Atlanta officials

Associated Press

ATLANTA — Atlanta officials refused to verify tens of thousands of signatures submitted on Monday by activists trying to stop the construction of a police and firefighter training center, citing a recent court order. The activists had gathered jubilantly after obtaining what they said were the signatures of more than 116,000 Atlanta residents, far more than necessary to force a …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Over 40,000 eviction notices have gone out in L.A. this year, many to upscale apartments

LA Times

The Vine at 1600 Vine St. had 313 eviction notices from late January through July of this year. At Promenade Towers, a Bunker Hill apartment complex with 611 units that bills itself as “an urban oasis in the heart of downtown,” tenants received 371 eviction notices from late January through July. Across Los Angeles, more than 40,000 eviction notices, the …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Costa Mesa considers cracking down on unfair evictions, drafting rental protections

LA Times

Costa Mesa in June 2022 answer tenants’ questions about rental assistance and help them enroll in programs. Kimberly Hall Barlow said City Hall has received multiple complaints from people who’ve been evicted by landlords using false pretenses, such as repairs or remodeling, to force a turnover that will allow them to raise rents. “It’s easier to kick somebody out and …

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1 year, 5 months ago

New York City to give more than $13 million to over 1,000 Black Lives Matter protestors in mass arrests settlement

Hindustan Times

New York City is set to give over $13 million to more than 1,000 protesters arrested during the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests. A protester is arrested on New York's Fifth Avenue by NYPD officers during a march on June 4, 2020, following the death of George Floyd According to experts, the settlement, which allows the city to avoid a …

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1 year, 5 months ago

US judge temporarily blocks Mississippi law on state police permits for some protests

Associated Press

— A federal judge Thursday temporarily blocked a new Mississippi law that requires permission from state police for protests or other gatherings near state government buildings in the capital city of Jackson. Legislators also passed a separate bill expanding the role of the state-run Capitol Police department inside the city, creating a new court inside part of Jackson with a …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Tenants say a 3-year ban on evictions kept them housed. Landlords say they’re drowning in debt

Associated Press

SAN FRANCISCO — Retiree Pamela Haile has paid property taxes, insurance and other bills on a house she lets out in Oakland, but for more than three years her tenants have paid no rent thanks to one of the longest-lasting eviction bans in the country. While it’s more common to see tenants converging on city halls in California to demand …

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1 year, 6 months ago

Atlanta clerk sued for denying ‘Stop Cop City’ petition lets effort move forward

Associated Press

ATLANTA — Facing a lawsuit from opponents of Atlanta’s proposed police and firefighter training center, the city clerk on Wednesday approved a petition that seeks to force a voter referendum on halting the complex. The approval of the petition, which the clerk had twice rejected over technicalities, clears a significant hurdle for “Stop Cop City” activists, who have been gearing …

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1 year, 6 months ago

L.A. mayor reports that 14,000 homeless people have moved off the streets

LA Times

Tierra Signer waits with her belongings, to get housing under Inside Safe program, along 400 S. San Vicente Boulevard. More than 14,000 people experiencing homelessness have been moved off the streets during the first six months of her administration, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass reported Tuesday. Bass said the housing placements resulted from executive directives she enacted upon entering office, …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Citing migrant influx, New York mayor asks court to suspend long-standing ‘right to shelter’

Associated Press

NEW YORK — New York’s mayor asked a judge on Tuesday to let the city suspend its long-standing “right to shelter” obligation, saying officials are no longer able to house every homeless person because of the arrival of tens of thousands of international migrants. “It is in the best interest of everyone, including those seeking to come to the United …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Opinion: The mass evictions at Barrington Plaza will happen again if L.A. doesn’t act to protect renters

LA Times

Last week, corporate landlord Douglas Emmett Inc., announced plans to evict all tenants in its 25-story Barrington Plaza apartment complex in West Los Angeles. The company, which owns 18.3 million square feet of office space and 4,209 rental units in Los Angeles and Honolulu, has cited a city order to upgrade the building’s sprinkler system as the reason for these …

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1 year, 9 months ago

St. Louis prosecutor: Ouster effort is politically motivated

Associated Press

ST. LOUIS — The elected prosecutor in St. Louis, under intense criticism after a visiting teenage athlete lost her legs in a crash blamed on a man who remained free from jail despite multiple bond violations, is accusing Missouri’s attorney general of seeking her ouster for political gain. Democratic Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner filed a court response late Tuesday to …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Mandatory evictions for arrested tenants would be banned under new state bill

LA Times

An apartment complex in San Bernardino in 2020. Assembly Bill 1418 takes aim at local policies known as “crime-free housing,” which can force landlords to evict tenants accused of breaking the law or refuse to rent to those with prior criminal convictions. “It’s a way to exclude brown and Black people from living in their apartment buildings, living in their …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Activists rally behind Missouri lawmaker cut off in debate

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1 year, 10 months ago

L.A. City Council backs minimum threshold for evicting tenants behind on rent

LA Times

The Los Angeles City Council voted 9-2 Friday to back a proposal that establishes a minimum threshold for eviction for tenants who fall behind on rent. A proposal that establishes a minimum threshold for eviction for tenants who fall behind on rent was provisionally approved Friday by the council, while a separate item that would require landlords to pay relocation …

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1 year, 11 months ago

L.A. City Council votes to dramatically expand tenant protections ahead of deadline

LA Times

With pressure mounting and the clock ticking, the Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously Friday to dramatically expand protections for renters, heading off what advocates had feared could become a wave of evictions. Some renters, including those in rent-stabilized units, already have “just cause” eviction protections, but making them universal expands the protections to about 400,000 additional units, according to …

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1 year, 11 months ago

With deadline looming, L.A. City Council is set to vote on new tenant protections

LA Times

With Los Angeles’ longstanding COVID-19 anti-eviction rules expiring in less than two weeks, the City Council is set to vote Friday on a proposal that would substantially expand permanent protections for tenants. The legislation package under consideration would establish a minimum threshold for eviction for tenants who fall behind on rent and require landlords to pay relocation fees in some …

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2 years ago

Accused of illegally evicting Black and Latino renters, SoCal city, sheriff to pay $1 million

LA Times

Domingo Nuñez speaks with Brittany Johnson Thompson at the Victor Valley Resource Center in Hesperia in 2020. “These programs can uproot lives and destabilize communities often unjustly forcing people into homelessness and resulting in lost jobs, schooling and other opportunities.” The settlement, which still needs approval by a federal judge, requires Hesperia and the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department to …

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2 years ago

Bass’ emergency homelessness declaration approved during tumultuous City Council meeting

LA Times

Embattled City Councilman Kevin de León sits alone at the horseshoe in Los Angeles City Council chambers on Tuesday. The Los Angeles City Council approved Mayor Karen Bass’ declaration of a homelessness emergency at a fraught four-hour meeting Tuesday, giving the new mayor a potentially critical tool for addressing the city’s humanitarian crisis. Protester Greg Akili demands that council members …

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2 years ago

St. Louis mayor appoints commission to consider reparations

Associated Press

ST. LOUIS — St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones is appointing a reparations commission that will “recommend a proposal to begin repairing the harms that have been inflicted” by slavery, segregation and racism. St. Louis joins a growing list of places trying to determine how to make amends for past practices that have harmed Black Americans. We cannot succeed as a …

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2 years ago

NYC Mayor Adams faces backlash for move to involuntarily hospitalize homeless people

NPR

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2 years, 2 months ago

L.A. to end COVID eviction protections by February

LA Times

After nearly three years of COVID-19 emergency restrictions, landlords will once again be allowed to evict tenants who have fallen behind on their rent, the L.A. City Council decided Tuesday. “Now is time that we not only keep people off the streets but also protect people’s housing and preserve their financial well-being.” L.A.’s eviction protections were part of a robust …

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2 years, 3 months ago

Los Angeles County commits to ending eviction moratorium by year’s end

LA Times

Los Angeles tenants and housing rights activists protest in October 2020 for a halt to rent payments and mortgage debt during the COVID-19 pandemic. Officials will “perform robust outreach” to make sure that tenants and landlords in the county’s 88 cities are prepared for the end of the renter protections, said Supervisor Kathryn Barger, who introduced the motion. Supervisor Sheila …

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2 years, 4 months ago

Evictions spiking as assistance, protections disappear

Associated Press

Jada Riley thought she had beaten homelessness. “I don’t want to have my son experience any struggles that I went through.” Eviction filings nationwide have steadily risen in recent months and are approaching or exceeding pre-pandemic levels in many cities and states. “Our numbers of evictions are increasing every month at an astonishing rate, and I just don’t see that …

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2 years, 5 months ago

California’s eviction moratorium to lift at midnight, despite rent relief concerns

LA Times

A limited three-month extension to California’s eviction moratorium is scheduled to expire on Thursday at midnight, despite opposition from tenant advocates who say the state still hasn’t done enough to keep renters housed during the COVID-19 pandemic. Lawmakers in March moved the eviction moratorium’s expiration date from April 1 to July 1 for California tenants who’d applied for the state’s …

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2 years, 8 months ago

Can US tenants cope with COVID eviction protections ending?

Al Jazeera

Housing rights campaigner Rob Robinson and Legal Aid’s Beth Mellen on the housing crisis in the United States. “Once the courts open up, we will see a rush to evict,” says housing rights campaigner Rob Robinson. You need support.” Beth Mellen, the director of Legal Aid’s Eviction Defense Project, says preventive solutions such as aid from the federal government can …

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3 years ago

Evictions on the rise months after federal moratorium ends

Associated Press

BOSTON — Soon after losing his trucking job amid the pandemic, Freddie Davis got another blow: His landlord in Miami was almost doubling the rent on his Miami apartment. But housing advocates say they’re on the rise in many parts of the country —- though numbers remain below pre-pandemic levels due to the infusion of federal rental assistance and other …

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3 years, 3 months ago

Supreme Court blocks Biden’s extension of eviction ban

LA Times

The Supreme Court ruled for a group of Alabama landlords on Thursday and blocked President Biden from extending for two more months a nationwide pandemic-related ban on evictions. “If a federally imposed eviction moratorium is to continue, Congress must specifically authorize it,” the court said in an unsigned order. As justification for its latest extension, the CDC cited “recent, unexpected …

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3 years, 3 months ago

Billions In Federal Rental Aid Sit Unspent By Local Governments

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING Eight months after the federal government approved billions of dollars to help people pay their rent, more than 50 counties and cities still haven’t spent a single penny. The numbers come from the Treasury Department’s latest data on the distribution of rental assistance, which Congress first authorized in December 2020. State and local governments have faced pressure …

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3 years, 4 months ago

Landlords look for an exit amid federal eviction moratorium

Associated Press

NEW YORK — When Ryan David bought three rental properties back in 2017, he expected the $1,000-a-month he was pocketing after expenses would be regular sources of income well into his retirement years. “Without rent, we’re out of business, ” said Gary Zaremba, who sold 40 of his properties in Ohio due to the moratorium and still has a quarter …

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3 years, 4 months ago

Ferguson mayor: Progress, yes, but still a long way to go

Associated Press

— Seven years after Michael Brown’s death turned a bright spotlight on the criminal justice system in Ferguson, Missouri, the town’s mayor says progress is being made, but that there’s still a long way to go. Months of unrest followed Brown’s death and sparked examinations of how Ferguson police and courts treated Black residents. Mayor Ella Jones on Monday noted …

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3 years, 4 months ago

Eviction moratoriums aren’t enough to rescue millions of Americans behind on rent, experts say

CNN

New York CNN Business — Shanta Matthews and her family were three months behind on rent last week and were preparing to be booted from their two-bedroom condo in Charleston, South Carolina, when they got a last-minute reprieve from the federal government. Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg/Getty Images The existing stay on evictions may prevent law enforcement from removing renters from homes, but …

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