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Official title: Amend the CARES Act to remove a requirement on lessors to provide notice to vacate, and for other purposes.
Introduced February 6, 2025 by Cindy Hyde-Smith · Last progress February 6, 2025
The bill restores landlords' and courts' ability to resume eviction actions sooner, trading faster resolution for a higher risk of eviction, housing instability, and potential increases in homelessness among low-income renters.
Landlords and property owners can file evictions sooner, allowing them to pursue unpaid rent or regain possession of units.
Courts and local governments may see faster resolution of housing disputes and reduced case backlogs from ending extended moratorium protections.
Low-income renters and other tenants face increased eviction filings and greater housing instability as eviction protections are removed.
Communities may see higher homelessness risk and related public costs if displaced tenants cannot find alternative housing or assistance.
Low-income tenants will have less time to secure rental assistance or alternative housing, increasing immediate financial precarity and loss of housing stability.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Removes a federal statutory subsection that limited eviction filings, leaving eviction filing rules primarily to state and local law.
Removes a federal statutory subsection that limited or paused eviction filings under the CARES Act-era provision governing a temporary eviction-filing moratorium. The change deletes that subsection from federal law, effectively narrowing federal limits on eviction filings and returning more authority to state and local housing laws and procedures for landlords, tenants, and courts.