The Miami Herald and McClatchy News Sites are offering full coverage of the COVID-19 coronavirus to all, with no payment required. We want to ensure our readers can make critical decisions for themselves and their families. To continue supporting vital reporting like this, please consider a digital subscription. For more coverage, subscribe to our daily coronavirus newsletter.Gov. Ron DeSantis said Thursday he would consider a statewide moratorium on evictions given the effect the novel coronavirus has had on the economy.“I need to see what my
Miami Florida News authority would be and how it would work,” DeSantis told reporters. “If something happens with their business and they get laid off, and then they can’t make the rent payment ... those are extraordinary circumstances. So I would be supportive of figuring out what I can do.”The news comes after Miami-Dade, Orange and Hillsborough counties have made their own announcements suspending evictions locally.
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