The state Supreme Court denied a request from the Allegheny County President Judge to extend eviction protections for an additional month.

Now, those tenants who qualified for rental assistance could be on less solid footing.

“Judge Kim Berkeley Clark had a previous order that had said in some cases of tenants not paying rent on time, they could get more time to apply for federal rental assistance,” explains WESA reporter Kate Giammarise. “Her order did not halt all evictions or eviction filings, it basically stretched out a timeline to allow people to get rental assistance.”

The state Supreme Court denied Clark’s request to extend her eviction protection order, so the county is technically back to pre-pandemic court procedures.

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