Last Thursday, a federal court struck down the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s ban on evictions as unconstitutional, as the courts should be striking down any mandates or bans by the unconstitutional and unelected CDC.
This ruling comes in response to a lawsuit brought by the Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF) and the Southeastern Legal Foundation on behalf of several Texas landlords who’ve been prevented from evicting non-paying tenants because of the CDC’s order.
“My clients have continued to have the cost of their property, their property taxes, their mortgages, their costs of maintaining and upkeep,” says Robert Henneke, general counsel for the TPPF. “At the same time, in the last five months, they’ve been prohibited by the federal government from collecting rent. That’s caused them injury they can start recovering from here beginning today.”
Housing advocates, who’ve long supported a nationwide eviction moratorium, are less pleased.
“This court decision must not stand, the federal government must vigorously defend, extend, strengthen and enforce the CDC order,” said Diane Yentel, president and CEO of the National Low Income Housing Coalition. “Evictions risk lives, drive families deeper into poverty, and strain our already overstretched public health systems.”
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