Eviction protesters rally, sleep at US Capitol as eviction moratorium expires
Video-midnight rally on Capitol steps demands eviction moratorium be extended 41 sec
Update: After 5 days of protests new limited eviction moratorium in place
At midnight beginning Aug 1, the national (not the DC local) moratorium on evictions (due to covid) expired. At midnight beginning Aug 1, the national (not the DC local) moratorium on evictions (due to covid) expired. At the same time, protesters held a rally on the steps of the US Capitol demanding extension of the moratorium.
The Supreme Court had decreed that Biden needs an act of Congress to extend it. Housing activists are demanding that an extension of the eviction moratorium be included in any infrastructure bill that emerges from Congress. Some of them are now sleeping at the US Capitol until they get results
Midnight rally against the return of evictions. Some of these protesters have been sleeping outside the US Capitol
