The eviction bans were understandable. A lot of people lost work and some were unable to pay rent. With the housing shortage, finding a place to move to could become very difficult. The housing market is still jammed now with demand vastly exceeding supply even in unlikely places. But allowing the government, let alone the CDC, to impose an eviction ban was a huge power grab. And illegal. Like a lot of the illegal emergency measures of the pandemic, little was done about it at the time. But a judge appointed by President Trump is providing some relief. In a 20-page ruling, U.S. District Court Judge Dabney Friedrich, who was appointed by Trump, ruled that the agency exceeded its authority with the temporary ban.
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The Trump administration imposed the eviction moratorium in September using the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention s quarantine authority. Most recently, the Biden administration said it would remain in effect through June 30. Friedrich concluded that the CDC exceeded its authority by issuing a broad moratorium on all rental property evictions. The question for the Court is a narrow one: Does the Public Health Service Act grant the CDC the legal authority to impose a nationwide eviction moratorium? It does not, Friedrich wrote in the 20-page opinion.
The court filing was one of several in the past year involving property owners under financial duress due to the moratorium reached this year to challenge the blanket freeze. For instance, U.S. District Court Judge J. Philip Calabrese in Ohio
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