{"id":2330,"date":"2020-10-20T00:05:18","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T00:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businessner.com\/?p=2330"},"modified":"2022-04-27T09:50:13","modified_gmt":"2022-04-27T09:50:13","slug":"tens-of-thousands-to-be-evicted-after-moratorium-across-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businessner.com\/tens-of-thousands-to-be-evicted-after-moratorium-across-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"Tens of Thousands to be Evicted After Moratorium Across USA"},"content":{"rendered":"
As per a Boston Business Journal<\/a> article, tens of thousands of Americans may become homeless as the statewide eviction&foreclosure moratorium just expired last Saturday, October 17.<\/p>\n According to an estimation from the Metropolitan Area Planning Council, approximately 60 thousand renter households across Massachusetts are faced with imminent eviction, but this may be an optimistic estimation, as\u00a0 the housing advocacy group City Life\/Vida Urbana puts the number of potential evictees at 100,000.<\/p>\n The statewide eviction and foreclosure moratorium was put in place initially as a method to deal with the situation in the aftermath of the coronavirus pandemic, or, to be more exact, with the government imposed restrictions on small and medium businesses which put a lot of people in dire straits financially speaking.<\/p>\n State Governor Charlie Baker is now contemplating an extension of the moratorium, with winter and the flu season approaching, which may lead to a second surge of coronavirus cases. However, Mr. Baker already extended the moratorium twice before and he did not signal his intention to do it for the third time.<\/p>\n The situation in Massachusetts is not singular, as 2020 was a nightmare year for renters across North America. Currently speaking, there are local, state and federal eviction bans in many states, that offer temporary protection from eviction.<\/p>\n