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There will be no rental evictions in New York until May 2021 – International


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All eviction proceedings already underway are put on hold in New York. Millions of the unemployed are struggling to pay their rent.

New York, once the epicenter of the pandemic in the United States, will extend its moratorium on rental evictions until May 2021, its governor announced on Monday. The text pauses the eviction procedures already underway for another 60 days and prohibits any new eviction until May 1, 2021.

“We want it to be simple, we don’t want people to be deported,” state governor Andrew Cuomo said in a press conference. The moratorium was due to expire at the end of the year. But the United States, the country most bereaved by Covid-19 in absolute terms, is still suffering from the ravages of the pandemic.

Possible further extension

Many businesses had to lower the curtain again this fall, in the face of the multiplication of contaminations. And millions of unemployed people, deprived of their jobs because of the pandemic, do not know when they will receive their next benefits, and therefore how to pay their rent.

The governor has not ruled out extending this moratorium even further if the health situation does not improve. “We’ll see what happens in May, but we want to protect tenants,” said Andrew Cuomo.

(With AFP)

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