More than 10 million Americans are behind on rent or mortgage payments, and more than 5 million say they are at risk of eviction or foreclosure, according to a Census Bureau survey.
The Biden administration has extended a moratorium on housing evictions through the end of June, continuing a stopgap measure for millions of Americans at risk of losing their homes amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
The move comes days before the ban on evictions for renters affected by the pandemic was set to expire. Housing and poverty advocates had been urging the administration to extend the protection because unemployment remains above 6 percent and around 1,000 people a day continue to die from Covid-19.
