A federal judge in Ohio has ruled that federal regulators overstepped their authority in ordering a national moratorium on rental evictions after the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic last year.
U.S. District Court Judge Philip Calabrese ruled in favor Wednesday of a group of property owners who argued in October that the ban, ordered by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, was an overreach.
Calabrese said in his 31-page decision that the halt on evictions exceeded the CDC’s authority provided under the Public Health Service Act.
Pacific Legal Foundation, arguing that landlords “deserve to be paid,” defended the judge’s ruling.
“The decision makes clear that federal agencies can’t exercise power Congress has not given them,” Pacific Legal Foundation Senior Attorney Steve Simpson said in a statement. “Now our clients no longer have to provide housing for free.”
The CDC ordered the ban last September and it was extended through March. It cited COVID-19 as a “historic threat to public health” and said evictions increased transmission risks. The order covers renters who make “best efforts” to make timely payments and have suffered “substantial loss of household income” due to the pandemic.
Calabrese stopped short of granting an injunction to stop the CDC from enforcing the moratorium, but renters advocates expressed concern.
“This order could immediately result in a flood of evictions of struggling renters resulting in increased spread of, and potentially deaths from, COVID-19,” National Low Income Housing Coalition President and CEO Diana Yentel told CNBC.
“The [Department of Justice] should immediately appeal and request a stay on the ruling.”
The coalition also called on the Biden administration to extend the eviction ban beyond March.
Last month, a federal judge in Texas also ruled that the moratorium is unconstitutional. The Justice Department has said it will appeal that decision.
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Just how many ways can the socialist communists devise to redistribute honest wealth to the dishonest who have not the moral integrity to refuse to take it. The secular American conquest from within proceeds on schedule. Soon nobody will invest in apratment buildings and the tent cities will replace them. Even the illegals leaving tent city counttires will soon have no place to hide, no place to live, and no place to invade and redistribute honest American earned wealth that will cease to exist, just as our borders cease to exists. More government criminal activity disguised as charity, never letting the crisis go to waste to increase governbment dependency which enlarges the Democrat voting block and destroys “Self-governing” ability of what Americans are supposed to be nurtured into, who stand in their way of American Socialist conquest. America’s ability as individuals to SELF-govern their lives is the real target they are aiming to shoot down, and they just got 1.9 trillion to do it with.
So the CDC will give up part of their budget to pay back the land lords???
N, they’l just DEMAND WE the tax victims, pay up…
The CDC is so worried about “transmission risks”, when it comes to covid? The CDC said nothing when the rioting was going on, with regard to covid and the CDC says nothing about the open borders covid positive people. The CDC stinks as much as Dr. Fauci. Secondly, the economy needs to be opened. People cannot pay their bills (rent or mortgage), when they are out of work and landlords cannot survive, if they are not being paid. Politicians and their control bull.
Even some of the larger apartment communities, don’t make 50k in profit a year… HAVING 2-3 not paying tenants for a full year, can SEVERELY remove even THAT amount of profit.
The Fed may have tried putting a moratorium on property taxes and ban banks from collecting payments or penalizing home owners and landlords until THEY put the nation back to pre-O’biden’Harris condition.
But that’s not how the property re-claim game is played.
THEY WILL never put a morotorium on property taxes. THEY GET TO MILK/rob us too much, for that to ever happen.