![]() The CDC issued a new eviction moratorium through Octobut only in ares of “Substantial” COVID transmissions. RESIDENTIAL EVICTION UPDATE – August 13, 2021 Landlords are well advised to provide delinquent tenants with info about the financial assistance programs since rent could have been paid directly to the Landlord. Additional rental assistance and legal aid can be found at or call 85. See: This website also shows other resources available to assist with the payment of rent and utilities. Tenants should be loooking for rental assistance programs such as the one established by the Illinois Department of Human Services and the Illinois Housing Development Authority. The courts in Cook County have set up an Early Resolution Program in which trained mediators help resolve the rent payment issues to the benefit of both the Landlord and Tenants. Landlords should be consulting with their attorneys about the local procedures for evictions. The Cook County Sheriff has published a guide for Landlords on eviction procedures, and this is certain to be modified shortly. The Sheriff’s Office will be inundated with eviction orders and it will take time to process all of the eviction orders which have been stayed over the past 18 months. In Cook County the Sheriff’s Office had suspended enforcement of residential evictions – except for emergency orders from the court – due to the the Governor’s Executive Order staying evicitons. The rubber will meet the road at the Sheriff’s Office. But don’t expect any immediate evictions. This ruling will not mean any immediate evictions, but it allows Landlords to start the eviction process. The CDC’s moratorium was set to expire October, so this ruling deals with the situation while the legal fight continues over the moratorium, leaving Landlords and Tenants at odds over rent payments and evictions.īut the bottom line is that Landlords can now start eviciton proceedings which had been stayed. This was a temporary ruling and only deals with whether the moratorium should continue on a temporary basis while the lower courts thoroughly consider the the underlying challenge. Landlords are now allowed to start evicting millions of Americans who are behind on rent because of the Pandemic. ![]() The justices divided along party lines, with the court’s three liberal justices dissenting from the unsigned eight-page decision. Basically, SCOTUS ruled that the eviction moratorium mandated by the CDC exceeded it’s authority under the law. ![]() It has been a tortured road for Landlords during the COVID-19 Pandemic as the story is told in this blog. COVID Rules for Residential Evictions RESIDENTIAL EVICTION UPDATE – Aug– SCOTUS weighs in.įinally, some clarity to the situation by the source least expected – the U.S. ![]()
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