Find out if your county is covered by the CDC Eviction moratorium
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) extended a federal ban on evictions to October 3, temporarily staving off fears for the millions of American renters who are still behind on rent payments.
CDC Eviction Protection County Lookup Tool
A county qualifying for protection must have experienced at least one day of substantial or high level of COVID-19 community transmission (at least 50 cases per 100k people).
The specifics are complicated but a tool has been developed to help people easily check if they qualify.
The tool, developed by ATJ Tech, has two versions built upon the same function:
- The first integrates with ATJ's existing CDC Declaration generator.
The tool acts as a filter, helping people understand if they qualify for federal protection and then generates the necessary documents for them.
This tool is meant for those that have never filled out the CDC Declaration form and are potentially pursuing eviction protection (or only just now qualifying) for the first time since COVID-19 started.
- The second version of the tool is a simple check for those who already have a CDC Declaration, allowing them to see if they are still protected by it.
The new CDC Eviction Moratorium protects people for 14 days from the last substantial or high level of COVID-19 transmission in their county.
For this reason, it is very important that tenants know the exact day that their county last experienced these levels.
Tenants need to know that they qualify for protection and also when their protection might expire.
Because they can only confirm their protection for a maximum of 14 days, people will likely need to check back regularly to make sure they continue to be protected.
The CDC said in a statement that Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the agency’s director, has signed a 60 day extension of the moratorium, which had expired July 31.
The order is intended to target specific areas of the country with heightened levels of community transmission (COVID-19 and the Delta Variant), which likely would be exacerbated by mass evictions. The halt covers most of the U.S. and goes through October 3, 2021.
The CDC enacted the order last year to prevent mass evictions for individuals earning $99,000 or less per year or couples filing jointly that earned $198,000 or less per year.
Renters were also protected by a patchwork of local and state protections, many of which have since expired.
Even with the national ban, some landlords were still moving forward with evictions, spurring warnings from the Biden administration.
The ban has faced multiple legal challenges and was even temporarily overturned by a D.C. District Court judge before a panel of judges in Washington sided with the Biden administration’s appeal for it to be reenacted. Earlier this month, a coalition of real estate groups asked the Supreme Court to nix the order.
This map from the CDC shows the counties in Kansas that are showing high levels of community transmission of COVID-19. The counties in blue are not covered by the ban, but most of the counties in Kansas are covered.
