With the federal moratorium on evictions expired and Maryland courts reopened, renters and their advocates protested outside of the District Court downtown to try and stop the wave of evictions they foresee as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.

“We are calling on the mayor, the governor, to show humanity, and good common decency to extend the moratorium, to cancel the rent,” Baltimore renter Lillie Robinson said yesterday through a microphone to the crowd of 50 people.

“People are still out of work, and don’t have income to pay their rent,” she continued, while renters and landlords lawyers entered the Fayette Street building where rent court takes place.

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