With deadline approaching, DeSantis extends evictions, foreclosure deadlines to August
Floridians will have a little less to worry about when it comes to foreclosures and evictions.
Late Tuesday night — only hours before his original order was set to expire — Gov. Ron DeSantis extended an executive order that gives residents a later deadline for mortgage foreclosures and evictions. The new deadline will be 12:01 a.m. Aug. 1, according to the order.
On April 2, DeSantis issued a 45-day suspension of evictions and foreclosures so that Floridians could adhere to the statewide stay-at-home order that he had issued to prevent the spread of novel coronavirus, which at that time was nearing 8,000 cases statewide of COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus.
DeSantis has since extended the order twice. The most current order would have expired Wednesday, July 1.
U.S. Rep. Ted Deutch, the Democrat who represents parts of Broward and Palm Beach counties, told the Orlando Sentinel Tuesday, “I don’t understand the governor’s decision always to wait until the last minute when he knows people are suffering, and when he knows people are losing their homes and getting kicked out in the street.”
On Tuesday, Florida’s Department of Health confirmed 6,093 additional cases of COVID-19, bringing the state’s total to 152,434 confirmed cases and 3,505 deaths.
This story was originally published June 30, 2020 at 10:16 PM with the headline "With deadline approaching, DeSantis extends evictions, foreclosure deadlines to August."
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