Shivani Pandey –
Published on: August 16, 2021 11:55 IST
The US Supreme Court on Thursday obstructed a significant chunk of an Eviction Moratorium in New York State.
“This is a very serious setback for our ability to protect tenants in the middle of a Pandemic,” mentioned State Senator Brian Kavanagh, a Democrat and one of the supporters of the Moratorium Law.
Randy M. Mastro representing the landlords who challenged the law stated that “Court’s decision would permit Cases that have been stopped in their tracks by the State Moratorium Law to proceed so that both landlords and tenants can be heard”.
It was not evident how many people could be affected by the ruling on Thursday. More than 830,000 houses in New York State, a bulk of them in New York City, lacked on rent with a total estimated debt of more than $3.2 Billion, as per an analysis of Census data by the National Equity Atlas, a research group working with the University of Southern California.
Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul, who is to become New York’s next Governor in 2 weeks said that “No New Yorker who has been financially hit or displaced by the pandemic should be forced out of their home”.
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