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How Maryland is Distributing Aid to Help Tenants

A federal freeze on most evictions enacted last year is scheduled to expire Saturday, after President Joe Biden’s administration extended the original date by a month.

The moratorium, put in place by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in September, was the only tool keeping millions of tenants in their homes. Many of them lost jobs during the coronavirus pandemic and had fallen months behind on their rent.

Landlords successfully challenged the order in court, arguing they also had bills to pay. They pointed out that tenants could access nearly $47 billion in federal money set aside to help pay rents and related expenses.

Advocates for tenants said the distribution of the money had been slow and that more time was needed to distribute it and repay landlords. Without an extension, they feared a spike in evictions and lawsuits seeking to boot out tenants who were behind on their rents.

Even with the delay, roughly 3.6 million people in the U.S. as of July 5 said they face eviction in the next two months, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey. The survey measures the social and economic effects of the coronavirus pandemic every two weeks through online responses from a representative sample of U.S. households.

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7 thoughts on “How Maryland is Distributing Aid to Help Tenants”

  1. I wonder how many recipients took the money and bought TV’s, rims, bling, and other high-priced items instead of putting it away for the inevitable pay-back time?!

    They get no sympathy!

    1. They claim people can’t live unless they make $15 dollars an hour and in the same breath expect people on SS to do just that.

  2. Why are they getting this giveaway government money / reprieve from paying their bills when I have to. There are plenty of jobs out there that they can work at even if they have to get 2-3 jobs instead of having to have 1 job for $50,000 a year.
    These lazy bums need to be mandated to get a job. They want the Democrats SOCIALIST / COMMUNIST government.

    I have to live off a SSI check and pay taxes on these monthly checks and barely survive paying my living expenses and medical / prescriptions

  3. So the stimulus money was supposed to be used to pay your rent..!! If it did not then landlords are WELL WITHIN THEIR RIGHTS TO THROW YOU OUT! If tennants paid landlords then lanlords dont need help! The problem gonna be for those who didnt pay, screwed the landlords and expect to be let go and continue to live rent free!!!

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