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Realtors Want to Sell You a Home. Their Trade Group Backs Evicting Others.
The National Association of Realtors is advocating an end to a pandemic-era order meant to keep renters in their homes.
Credit.Robert Neubecker
April 17, 2021, 3:00 a.m. ET
Some of the same people in charge of selling you a home have sued to make it easier to evict people from one.
In September, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention barred evictions for most renters. The C.D.C. recently extended the moratorium through the end of June. Two very different presidents have signed off on it.
But in November, members of the National Association of Realtors the nation’s largest industry group, numbering 1.4 million real estate professionals tried to persuade a federal judge to remove it. Both the Alabama and the Georgia Associations of Realtors sued the federal government over the matter, and the national association is paying for all of the legal costs. A hearing is scheduled for April 29.