Housing activists and parishioners march towards Governor Kathy Hochul’s New York office and demand an end to the evictions on Tuesday in New York City. The state extended its eviction moratorium on Wednesday. Michael M. Santiago / Getty Images Hide caption
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Housing activists and parishioners march towards Governor Kathy Hochul’s New York office and demand an end to the evictions on Tuesday in New York City. The state extended its eviction moratorium on Wednesday.
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New York renters will be protected from evictions until at least January 15, 2022 after New York state legislators vote to extend an eviction moratorium.
New York’s protection is now one of the most extensive in the nation, where many people are struggling to keep their homes amid a disrupted pandemic economy and ongoing health threats from the coronavirus.
Tenants have sporadically been covered by a patchwork of protective measures since the beginning of the pandemic, many of which have expired, been topped up and worked their way through legal challenges.
New York deployed the new evacuation protection shortly after the Supreme Court lifted the Biden administration’s temporary eviction ban on Aug. 26.
New York Governor Kathy Hochul ordered an extraordinary session of the state legislature to address the eviction crisis and called the Supreme Court decision “heartless”.
“Under my supervision, we’re not going to exacerbate what is already a crisis here in New York State,” she said. “We will not abandon our neighbors in need, especially as New York State has failed to meet its responsibility to get out the money that Congress distributed to those in need earlier this summer.”
Tenants who are behind on their rent should get another form of support to help them stay in their homes: federal aid – but the distribution was spotty in some places.
This story originally appeared on the Morning Edition Live Blog.
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