He’s also asking other state employees to answer calls on the state’s overburdened unemployment hotline.
Gov. Ron DeSantis is suspending all evictions and foreclosures in Florida for the next 45 days in an effort to keep people in their homes while Floridians are supposed to stay indoors to slow the coronavirus.
Democrats and tenants’ rights groups have been calling for the governor to stop evictions and foreclosures for weeks. DeSantis said the suspensions were warranted “given the circumstances.”
“I’m not sure you’re going to rent out a lot of new places right now anyway,” DeSantis said. “But nevertheless, you just don’t know how people act…”
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