The Supreme Court has ended the CDC’s eviction moratorium. All levels of government must take immediate action to stop evictions and improve the distribution of rental assistance (and we must continue to organize tenants to take collective action to stop evictions, permanently).  

  1. Tell the state to stop evictions. 
  • Contact
  • Government Lamont must issue an executive order staying all evictions and new eviction filings until the Right to Counsel for Tenants program goes into effect, and his emergency authority should be extended to facilitate this.
  • Government Lamont’s existing executive order requiring landlords to apply for UniteCT before filing evictions and temporarily staying evictions when a UniteCT application is made must be improved, extended for the duration of the pandemic, and continue to remain in effect once the Right to Counsel for Tenants program begins. The order must:
    • Require all landlords with pending eviction cases to apply for UniteCT (which means accepting the funds and withdrawing the case if the application is approved);
    • Automatically stay eviction cases and executions if a tenant or landlord applies for UniteCT;
    • Stay eviction cases and executions until the UniteCT application is fully processed and any payment is made;
    • Clarify that LLs must participate in or accept UniteCT, and that a refusal to do so is unlawful source of income discrimination and that failure to submit a complete UniteCT application prior to starting an eviction case is also in violation of the EO; 
    • Require landlords and UniteCT to notify the court when UniteCT funds have been issued to the landlord so that the court can automatically dismiss the case;
    • Missed rental payments or evictions during the pandemic or caused by the pandemic cannot be used as a basis to deny rental housing or reported to tenant screening companies, credit reporting agencies, or future landlords.
  • The CT Judicial Branch must automatically stay all executions and ejectments for the duration of the public health emergency, as it did through August of 2020.
  1. Tell Congress to pass an eviction moratorium. 
  • Contact your congressional representatives:
    • Senator Murphy, (860) 549-8463
    • Senator Blumenthal, 860.258.6940
    • Your representative:
      • Rep. Larson, 860.278.8888
      • Rep. Courtney, 860.886.0139
      • Rep. DeLauro, 203.562.3718
      • Rep. Himes, 866.453.0028
      • Rep. Hayes, 860.223.8412
  • Congress must immediately pass a moratorium on all evictions for the duration of the pandemic, regardless of the reason for eviction.
    • The moratorium must be automatic, and require no documentation or declaration from tenants
    • It must mandate that no new evictions may be filed, evictions in progress must be stayed, and executions must be stayed. 
  1. Ask municipal officials to take action to protect tenants from eviction.
  • Ask city councilors and the mayor to mandate that all landlords operating in the town/city participate in and accept UniteCT money, and to state that a refusal to do so is unlawful source of income discrimination and that failure to submit a complete UniteCT application prior to starting an eviction case is also in violation of the EO. 

Ask the local housing authority to stay all evictions and executions for the duration of the pandemic.