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NEWSBRIEF: GEORGIA TENANTS GET ONLY TEMPORARY REPRIEVE IN EVICTION HALT

News Roundup for Monday, August 9, 2021. 

Photo by Clay Duda - 2012 article about Family occupying vacant home in Pittsburgh told to leave
Photo credit: Clay Duda/CL File
2012 Photo of Atlanta Family Being Evicted
Despite the Biden administration’s two-month extension of a pandemic-mandated moratorium on evictions, tens of thousands of reprieved Atlantans remain at risk of being homeless after its  October expiration date. A GPB report says that for many vulnerable families living precariously in the margins, “the realities of finding and maintaining safe, affordable housing were much more complicated long before the pandemic hit.” gpb.org