October 19, 2020 – Governor Pritzker has again extended the stay on evictions in Illinois. The governor’s office announced the executive order on Friday and the eviction moratorium will be extended until November 14. “There won’t be any major news but we are looking at how we might make adjustments,” Pritzker said. “Nothing really has changed in terms of the effect of COVID-19 and its effect on the economy, its effect on people’s jobs and their ability, or inability, to pay their rent or mortgage.”
Pritzker’s eviction ban is one of the more expansive in the country and contains no means testing mechanism or other documentation on behalf of a tenant to prove a hardship. However, some property owners are struggling, with the moratorium causing them to pay for property taxes and mortgages.
The National Multifamily Housing Council tracks rent payments in more than 11 million properties. The council found 94.6% of renters it tracked had paid rent in September of this year, a .9 percentage point difference from the same month in 2019.