New Jersey adopted some of the strongest renter protections in the nation to stave off a mass wave of homelessness during the COVID-19 pandemic.

If low- and middle-income families fill out a form and apply for rental aid, they can’t be evicted for having missed rent payments between March 2020 and August 2021. While California passed a similar measure, most states did not go so far as to make most evictions off-limits at the height of the pandemic.

And New Jersey’s eviction moratorium keeps the poorest in the state housed through the end of the year, one of the longest moratoriums in the country, while a federal eviction ban faced court challenges and was eventually struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court.

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