For those who think a rent moratorium is keeping people from being evicted in Baltimore as temperatures drop and Covid-19 cases soar, Zafar Shah is here to say it isn’t so.

An attorney with the Public Justice Center, Shah says hundreds of Baltimore renters are being evicted each month, and advocacy groups like his are scrambling to keep up with the demand for aid and legal representation.

“In text messages, I have a quote from a case now, where a landlord told my client, ‘Pay up now or you are no longer a tenant,’” Shah said.

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