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With millions of renters staring down evictions during the pandemic, the CDC on Monday extended its nationwide ban on evictions until June 30, but that’s not stopping some landlords from giving renters the boot.

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In March, a sheriff's deputy walked up to a home in Oklahoma and told the woman inside to leave.

The woman, with a family of 5 children, was financially supported by a non-profit that had already paid her landlord the $5,600 she owed. She was evicted anyway. (2/7)

Her landlord, Gary Ramey, had signed a document agreeing to drop the case after the back rent was paid, but he still moved forward with the eviction.

“I don’t remember that,” Ramey said. “I thought they were just helping them catch up with rent.” (3/7)

Interviews with renters, legal aid attorneys, housing experts and affordable housing advocates at the local and national level show a process that can be subject to the whims of local politics or geography. Judges hearing eviction cases might ignore the ban. (4/7)

Across the country, landlords are continuing to find ways to get tenants out, in some cases by declining to renew their lease or claiming that tenants broke the lease’s terms. (5/7)

“Many landlords have flouted the order and its protections,” said Diane Yentel, CEO of the National Low Income Housing Coalition.

“It’s especially disappointing because the Biden admin. knows very well what the flaws ... are and still failed to correct any of them.” (6/7)

The White House said in a statement that the federal government was “strengthening the enforcement tools to ensure the moratorium is implemented,” and encouraged tenants to reach out to the CFPB and Dept. of Housing and Urban Development for help. (7/7)

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