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Eviction ban extended through May 1
Housing activists rally in September against evictions. File photo by Todd Maisel
BY KEVIN DUGGAN
State lawmakers passed an extension
to ban residential evictions until
May 1 during a special session in Albany
on Monday, Dec. 28.
The new law will allow renters and
homeowners to avoid evictions or foreclosures
for nonpayment of rent or
mortgages if they fi ll out a form saying
they’re struggling fi nancially amid
the COVID-19 pandemic. The legislation
will potentially save thousands of
New Yorkers from being kicked out of
their homes in the months ahead, according
to the law’s sponsor.
“From the beginning of the COVID-19
pandemic we have understood that
housing security must be an essential
part of our effort to protect the health
and wellbeing of all New Yorkers,” said
state Sen. Brian Kavanagh (D–Brooklyn
Heights). “By enacting this comprehensive
residential eviction and foreclosure
moratorium, we are delivering
real protection for countless renters
and homeowners who would otherwise
be at risk of losing their homes, adding
to the unprecedented hardship that so
many are facing.”
The new law expands protections
for renters, homeowners, and smalltime
landlords, just as a patchwork of
measures from the federal and state
governments preventing some evictions
are set to expire come Jan. 1.
The bill creates a standardized
form for residents to send their landlords
or housing courts declaring they
can’t pay rent or afford to move because
of economic struggles or health
concerns connected to the coronavirus
pandemic, preventing them from
being evicted or halting an ongoing
eviction case against them.
Previously, tenants had to prove in
court that they suffered fi nancial hardship
due to COVID-19 under a partial
moratorium issued by the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention and an
executive order by Gov. Andrew Cuomo,
but housing advocates said that was too
high a hurdle for most residents.
A blanket moratorium dating back
to the start of the pandemic in March
was lifted by New York courts in October.
City marshals then began carrying
out the fi rst legal evictions in November,
starting with cases that were
fi led in court prior to the pandemic, including
one household on Ninth Street
in Gowanus, Law360 reported.
Tenant advocates rallied repeatedly
in and around Downtown Brooklyn’s
housing court starting in the summer,
at times storming offi ces of local housing
lawyers and staging protests outside
a city marshal’s offi ce.
The new bill halts all pending evictions
and those fi led within the fi rst 30
days of the new law for at least 60 days
to give tenants time to fi le the forms.
However, tenants can still be
evicted if they violate their leases by
disturbing or endangering other tenants,
the bill reads.
For more, visit BrooklynPaper.com.
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