WILLIAMSTOWN â As affordable housing advocates, renters and homeowners brace for expiration of federal and state coronavirus pandemic protections against evictions and foreclosures, the townâs Affordable Housing Trust is ready and able to help. On June 29, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a plea from landlords to end the Centers for Disease Control and Preventionâs moratorium on evicting tenants who fail to pay rent during the pandemic, keeping the ban in place until July 31. Massachusetts pandemic eviction protections expired in October, but a new law extends hardship protections by continuing the practice of offering temporary continuances to tenants who have filed applications for rental assistance to prevent evictions in cases where tenants are unable to pay rent because of pandemic-related financial hardship until April 2022.