The City of Cleveland will suspend evictions “caused by economic hardship resulting from the coronavirus pandemic,” city council president Kevin Kelley announced this afternoon.
Legislation on that front is expected to be passed a week from today at city council’s next meeting but Kelley, in a letter to Cleveland Municipal Housing Court Judge Mona Scott, insinuated that the court should stop as soon as possible.
A spokesperson for Judge Scott didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment or clarification on the topic.
The legislation is expected to only cover cases where hardship is tied to the pandemic, so evictions tied to anything criminal, for instance, could go on, a council spokesperson told Scene.
It has been less than a week since some states and cities have taken drastic and needed measures to curtail the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. Those measures have already produced dire financial effects, and those economic realities will continue to accumulate over the coming months.
As restaurants, bars and other small businesses temporarily shutter and/or layoff employees, and as hundreds and soon thousands will be self quarantined, cities such as Philadelphia, San Francisco, New York and others have instituted moratoriums protecting renters from being evicted.
This article appears in Mar 11-17, 2020.
So, are landlords going to get suspensions on having to pay their mortgage, taxes and insurance payments?
And how about us lowly property owners??? Will we be able to forgo paying our outrageous property taxes in this corruption-filled county???
If they can change the law on a whim why can’t I? I’ll just go pile there stuff on the curb and let the chips fall where they may. Now I have to subsidize the government housing? So now they get free rent and than when there finely evicted it will be a year and my expenses still go on. Of course the morons answer is it’s to protect the citizens from exposure from the CHINESE virus. If you want to keep them in there houses you can subsidize it! Why should I have to shoulder the burden? Here’s a question for the genius’s in government, Are you going to place the same burden on the shoulders of section 8 property owners and stop paying them?