Hundreds of Florida renters evicted during pandemic despite CDC order

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“How does the tiny courtroom and tiny landlord overrule something in place by the government? By the president?” said one evicted Hillsborough tenant.

Nicole Kelley felt confident when she dialed into her eviction hearing in late September.

A Lyft driver whose income had dropped off during the pandemic, she had submitted to the court a copy of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention form in which she swore, under penalty of perjury, that she fit the criteria to be protected from eviction until 2021.

But the hearing lasted five minutes, and she felt like the judge barely acknowledged the form. A few weeks later, her landlord texted to say she had to be out in three days. She sat on the floor of her Brandon rental duplex and cried.

“I feel like I failed my kid,” Kelley, 44, said in a phone interview from the Tampa Woodspring Suites hotel, where she’s living now with her 13-year-old daughter thanks to financial help from loved ones, she said.

Kelley still can’t understand why her case ended this way: “How does the tiny courtroom and tiny landlord overrule something in place by the government? By the president? … I feel like we got lied to.”

https://www.tampabay.com/news/business/2020/11/27/hundreds-of-florida-renters-evicted-during-pandemic-despite-cdc-order/

There will be a lot more of these stories coming out in another 6 weeks or so.

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