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Tenants behind on rent in pandemic face harassment, eviction

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BALTIMORE – Jeremy Rooks works the evening shift at a Georgia fast-food restaurant these days to avoid being on the street past dusk.

He needs somewhere to go at night: He and his wife are homeless after the extended-stay motel where they had lived since Thanksgiving evicted them in April when they couldn’t pay their rent.They should have been protected because the state's Supreme Court has effectively halted evictions due to the coronavirus pandemic.

But Rooks said the owner still sent a man posing as a sheriff’s deputy, armed with a gun, to throw the couple out a few days after rent was due.

The pandemic has shut housing courts and prompted most states and federal authorities to initiate policies protecting renters from eviction.

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