[20210802]LSB10632_CDC暂停驱逐的诉讼.pdf

CRS Legal Sidebar Prepared for Members and Committees of Congress Legal SidebarLegal Sidebari i Litigation of the CDCs Eviction Moratorium August 2, 2021 On August 1, 2021, the Centers for Disease Control and Preventions (CDCs) order imposing a nationwide, temporary federal moratorium on residential evictions for the nonpayment of rent expired. The order was designed to prevent the further spread of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) by preventing homelessness and overcrowded housing conditions that would result from evictions. The action followed an Executive Order directing the CDC to consider such a measure in light of the expiration of a narrower set of eviction protections provided by the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act (P.L. 116-136). The CDC originally issued the order on September 4, 2020, and it was set to expire December 31, 2020, but Congress extended the order through January 31, 2021, and the CDC extended it several times, resulting in the final expiration date of July 31, 2021. The eviction moratorium represented a broad federal inroad into what is traditionally state and local governance of landlord-tenant law and an unprecedented use of a