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A national “eviction moratorium” issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on September 4, 2020, initially was set to expire December 31, 2020, and subsequently was extended through January 31, 2021, and then to March 31, 2021, and most recently to June 30, 2021. Unlike the California statutory eviction moratorium that currently prohibits residential notices to vacate and unlawful detainer actions through June 30, 2021, the CDC moratorium is not self-actuating, and must be claimed by the tenant through direct communications with the landlord, but it also does not limit or affect the landlord’s right to recover rent through remedies other than eviction or dispossession of the tenant. It is an unusual regulatory intervention by a federal agency, compelled by executive order rather than legislation, into landlord-tenant law, which is traditionally within the province of local and state governments a