President Joe Biden and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention may think there are no costs to the nationwide eviction moratorium, in force for almost a year and now extended over the objections of the Supreme Court until October. The president needs to meet Lincoln Eccles of Crown Heights.
The son of Jamaican immigrants and named for Abraham Lincoln, Eccles is what’s known as a mom-and-pop landlord. He relies solely on income from a 14-unit, four-story walk-up building (where he lives himself) to support his wife and 4-month-old son.
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