New CDC ban on evictions leaves most tenants where they were last week
By Michael E. Kanell - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Lizzie Kane - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Troy Warren for CNT #covid-19 A new eviction moratorium was widely viewed Wednesday as effectively echoing the previous ban, protecting most of the tenants who were shielded under the earlier order. The new mandate from the Atlanta-based U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was issued late Tuesday, pegging a moratorium to the level of coronavirus infections. The order applies to all but three of Georgia’s 159 countiesand covers most tenants who said they were unable to pay their rent. . A resurgent COVID-19 spurred calls for an extension of the…