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New Yorkers Get Another Chance To Apply For COVID Rent Relief arrow People gather for a protest calling on New York to cancel rent outside of Brooklyn housing court August 6th, 2020. JUSTIN LANE/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock After failing to disburse more than half of the federal funding in a COVID-19 rent relief program, New York state has opened a new application window—with broader eligibility criteria—in order to hand out the remaining $60 million. With lawmakers and activists fearful that unspent federal dollars would need to be returned, the state agreed to loosen the...

New York Bans Most Evictions as Tenants Struggle to Pay Rent The Legislature, addressing hardship caused by the pandemic, convened an unusual special session between Christmas and New Year’s to pass the measure. The existing eviction ban in New York is set to expire on Dec. 31.Credit...Scott Heins/Getty Images Dec. 28, 2020 The New York Legislature on Monday overwhelmingly passed one of the most comprehensive anti-eviction laws in the nation, as the state contends with high levels of unemployment caused by a pandemic that has taken more than 330,000 lives nationwide. Tenants and advocacy gr...

Holiday travelers at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta on Dec. 23.Credit...Nicole Craine for The New York Times Sunday was the busiest day for U.S. airports since mid-March, underscoring concerns that a spike in holiday travel may contribute to the spread of the coronavirus, even as new cases remain alarmingly high and officials plead with Americans to avoid taking unnecessary risks. The Transportation Security Administration screened nearly 1.3 million people on Sunday, the most since March 15, when airline passenger numbers were in free-fall as the pandemic began to take h...

The Tenant Safe Harbor Act allows renters to cite the pandemic as a legal defense in court if they’re facing an eviction. But renters have been worried, Cea Weaver of the Upstate-Downstate Housing Alliance said.