Has the CDC Overstepped its Authority on Evictions?

It has been over a year since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and although many restrictions are beginning to lift, one that has not is the eviction moratorium. In August of 2020, (after the CARES Act eviction moratorium expired in July 2020) an executive order was issued by the President directing the Secretary of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) and the Director of the CDC to “consider whether any measures temporarily halting residential evictions of any tenants for failure to pay rent...
By: Smith Debnam Narron Drake Saintsing & Myers,

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