{"id":46277,"date":"2020-04-03T21:42:20","date_gmt":"2020-04-04T01:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=46277"},"modified":"2020-04-03T21:42:27","modified_gmt":"2020-04-04T01:42:27","slug":"gov-ron-desantis-suspends-evictions-foreclosures-for-45-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2020\/04\/gov-ron-desantis-suspends-evictions-foreclosures-for-45-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov. Ron DeSantis suspends evictions, foreclosures for 45 days"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Gov. Ron DeSantis suspends evictions, foreclosures for 45 days<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/ron-desantis-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-42765\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/ron-desantis-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/ron-desantis-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/ron-desantis-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/ron-desantis.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>April 1 was the first day monthly bills were due, and many residents across Florida have struggled to make payments on housing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, if you are heavily impacted by COVID-19, there is relief in sight if you own or rent a home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the COVID-19 Mortgage Foreclosure and Eviction Relief Order, which went into effect Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It suspends all evictions and foreclosures in the state for the next 45 days to ensure cost-burdened people remain in their homes during the stay-at-home order and pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development defines &#8220;cost-burdened individuals&#8221; as those paying more than 30 percent of their income for housing, and the severe rent burden pay more than 50 percent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A 2019 rental market study by the Florida Housing Finance Corporation found there are double-digit numbers of people spending more than 30 percent of their monthly income on housing in South Florida.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Palm Beach County 32 percent are cost burdened; 24 percent in Martin County; 32 percent in St. Lucie County; 30-percent in Indian River county and 24 percent in Okeechobee county.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s important to note, the Mortgage Foreclosure and Eviction Relief Order only provides \u201ctargeted, temporary relief.&#8221; It does not relieve a person\u2019s obligation to make mortgage and rent payments, which means the rent accrued is due at the end of the 45-day order<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Ron DeSantis suspends evictions, foreclosures for 45 days April 1 was the first day monthly bills were due, and many residents across Florida have struggled to make payments on&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":42765,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46277"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}