The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention may have ordered a moratorium on evictions through the end of this year to contain the spread of COVID-19. But housing advocates say that doesn’t mean Baltimore renters won’t face a mass eviction crisis.

“Unfortunately, a lot of people have already been harmed. And some people irrevocably harmed,” said Tisha Guthrie, a commissioner for the Affordable Housing Trust Fund.

Guthrie said she saw evidence of two of her neighbors being evicted the day after the state’s moratorium on evictions expired July 31, but a full month before courts reopened to hear eviction cases on August 31.

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