Thread by @MichelleRindels

.@GovSisolak says he is extending the state eviction moratorium for two months (shorter than three months of CDC moratorium extension).

"Much progress has been made, but there is still more to be done," he said.

https://twitter.com/GovSisolak/status/1377019077009436673

@GovSisolak A new element for Nevada moratorium: When providing notices to tenants, landlords must notify them about rental assistance that is available.

"Help is available for those in need, but only if they know about it."

@GovSisolak "Originally, I did not plan on extending this moratorium today, but I'm not going to put thousands of Nevadans at risk of losing their homes, while funding exists to help them and the landlords."

@GovSisolak Kevin Schiller of @ClarkCountyNV notes that undocumented people ARE eligible for county's rental assistance program.

@GovSisolak @ClarkCountyNV Hard-hit Clark County has helped 22,500 households through rental assistance programs since July.

But there are now 23,500 applications in the backlog -- even more than have been processed to date.

Expected pace is 1,700 apps per week. There's $161M to give in Clark County.

@GovSisolak @ClarkCountyNV Sisolak indicates "this is the last extension for the moratorium. The eviction process will have to start taking place."

@GovSisolak @ClarkCountyNV Governor on whether he'll lift Nevada mask mandate:

"I want to get a needle in every arm that we possibly can. And if the time comes when the time comes that we can list the mask mandate, we'll go ahead, but the immediate foreseeable future - we're not lifting the mask mandate"

@GovSisolak @ClarkCountyNV Asked by @metzsam the logic of having state moratorium shorter than federal moratorium, governor says it's so landlords can start filing eviction paperwork for a month ahead of when tenants, generally, are eligible to be evicted

@GovSisolak @ClarkCountyNV @metzsam Nevada is far from the only state struggling to administer rental assistance. Many others have sent out only a fraction of their allotment, sometimes because they've made complex eligibility requirements, per @AP: fox5vegas.com/coronavirus/st…