When President Donald Trump signed an executive order Saturday to shield tenants from the threat of eviction, he said it would "solve that problem largely, hopefully completely."
Yet not only would his action fail to halt evictions, it wouldn't do much of anything to immediately help the 20 million or so Americans who face the loss of their homes in the next few months amid the coronavirus crisis.
Trump's order does not extend the lapsed four-month eviction moratorium, which itself covered only about a quarter of the nation's 44 million rental units. Instead, it merely directs the Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Disease Control to "consider whether any measures temporarily halting residential evictions" are necessary to halt the spread of Covid-19.
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