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Cuomo to extend eviction moratorium as N.Y. lawmakers reach deal on expanding protections for renters and homeowners Denis Slattery ALBANY Gov. Cuomo intends to keep a temporary moratorium on evictions in place as COVID cases continue to climb and New York lawmakers weigh expanding protections for tenants. Melissa DeRosa, the governor’s top aide, said Wednesday the state will extend current bans on both residential and commercial evictions. “It’s still in place … through Sunday, so obviously we update these things as we go, and we’re not going to let anybody who’s evicted due to these circumstances be evicted,” DeRosa said during a remote briefing in Albany. ....
Cuomo to extend eviction moratorium as NY lawmakers reach deal on expanding protections Updated Dec 23, 2020; By Denis Slattery | New York Daily News Albany, N.Y. Gov. Cuomo intends to keep a temporary moratorium on evictions in place as COVID cases continue to climb and New York lawmakers weigh expanding protections for tenants. Melissa DeRosa, the governor’s top aide, said Wednesday the state will extend current bans on both residential and commercial evictions. “It’s still in place … through Sunday, so obviously we update these things as we go, and we’re not going to let anybody who’s evicted due to these circumstances be evicted,” DeRosa said during a remote briefing in Albany. ....
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GOING TO THE SOURCE: Crown Heights Tenant Union and other NYC housing organizations members march on December 11 from the Brooklyn Housing Court to the law offices of Balsamo, Rosenblatt & Hall, a law firm that specializes in evicting tenants.Photo: Sue Brisk. Tenant organizers in Massachusetts, New York, Texas, Missouri, Illinois & California speak out. The United States could see a Hurricane Katrina of evictions next month, as the federal Center for Disease Control’s limited moratorium on evictions and two programs expanding unemployment benefits are scheduled to expire by Dec. 31. In late September, the National Council of State Housing Agencies projected that by January 2021, up to 8.4 million renter households containing more than 20 million people could have eviction cases filed against them. It estimated that would include more than 1 million people in California, 860,000 in Tex-as, and 730,000 in New York. ....
Andrea Stewart-Cousins (Getty) UPDATED, Dec. 15 2020, 4:38 p.m.: The New York state legislature is a house divided when it comes to extending protections against eviction. The state Senate is pushing a blanket moratorium on all residential evictions for an indefinite period, according to sources, but the state Assembly opposes the measure. The move to block all residential evictions would be a departure from the legislature’s approach in recent months. Lawmakers have ceded control to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who has preferred to extend existing legislation. The law governing residential evictions, the Tenant Safe Harbor Act, allows property owners to seek money judgments, rather than evictions, for non-payment cases. The protections the law grants expire in two weeks. But the spike in coronavirus cases across the state has pushed the Senate, which secured a Democratic supermajority in November’s election, to consider taking things much further. ....