The tenant eviction ban gets extended until June in the USA.

The Biden administration is continuing a federal moratorium on evictions of residents who fell behind on their rent during the coronavirus pandemic.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention moved on Monday to prolong pandemic-related safety, which was due to expire on Wednesday. The ban got extended until the end of June.

The ban, which was enacted last year, protects landlords because it is feared that making families lose their homes and move into shelters or sharing cramped quarters with family or friends during the pandemic would spread the extremely infectious epidemic, which has killed more than 545,000 people in the United States.

To be eligible for housing insurance, tenants must earn $198,000 or less a year for couples filing jointly, or $99,000 for single filers; show that they’ve requested government assistance to pay the rent; declare that they can’t pay due to COVID-19 hardships, and affirm that they are likely to become homeless if evicted.

To support homeowners suffering during the pandemic, President Joe Biden extended a moratorium on housing foreclosures until June 30 in February.

Housing advocates had anticipated the tenant eviction moratorium to be extended and had been lobbying the Biden administration, claiming that it was too early in the country’s economic recovery to let the ban lapse.

John Pollock, National Coalition Coordinator for a Civil Right to Counsel, said the moratorium is essential to ensure that there is sufficient time for emergency leasing assistance to be provided to Congress’ millions of needy people who would otherwise be evicted.

“Judges in Massachusetts have over 1,700 expulsions under the moratorium on federal eviction. Although some families are protected, obviously not all are protected,” said Denise Matthews-Turner, the City Life/Vida Urbana, Boston’s grassroots housing justice organisation, interim executive director. “The extension is a positive thing, but it’s concerning that the moratorium wasn’t also enhanced to keep families from dropping between the cracks, such as those with no-fault evictions or landlords who refuse to consider rent relief.”

Landlords in many states have filed lawsuits to have the order overturned, claiming it is causing them financial distress and infringing on their property rights. They remain resistant to any extension, claiming that it does nothing to resolve the financial difficulties that tenants and landlords face.