An entrance to the Providence at Champions apartment complex is seen, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Houston, Texas, U.S., July 22, 2020. REUTERS/Adrees Latif
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Last month, as the coronavirus was surging in Houston, recently unemployed hospital secretary Ramzan Boudoin got more bad news: She had six days to vacate her apartment for failing to pay the rent.
A Texas ban on evictions had enabled Boudoin to keep the two-bedroom place she shared with her daughter and granddaughter while she searched for another job. But that moratorium expired on May 18. The landlord took legal action and Boudoin couldn’t come up with $2,997 plus interest to settle the judgment.
