CDC issues new eviction moratorium which covers most of the U.S. through Oct. 3

On the heels of the recent expiration of a pandemic-related eviction ban, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued a new eviction moratorium which is slated to last until Oct. 3.

The moratorium would temporally stop evictions in counties experiencing substantial and high coronavirus transmission and would apply to areas where 90 percent of the U.S. population dwells, according to the outlet.

The move came after the Biden administration had let a prior moratorium to lapse. 

"Administration officials had previously said a Supreme Court ruling stopped them from setting up a new moratorium without congressional backing. When the court allowed the eviction ban to remain in place through the end of July by a 5-4 vote, one justice in the majority, Brett Kavanaugh, wrote that Congress would have to act to extend it further," according to the AP.