📰 **Landlords who were barred from evicting tenants during COVID are in settlement talks with DOJ to recoup as much as $1.5 billion**

Housing advocates maintain the policy kept families housed, noting a significant spike in evictions after the moratorium ended.

🔗 https://fortune.com/2026/05/03/landlords-tenant-eviction-moratorium-covid-pandemic-settlement-talks-justice-department/

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