Calls for eviction ban spread as coronavirus threatens paychecks

Local and state officials are calling for an eviction ban as the economy slows in response to the coronavirus pandemic and workers are quarantined or forced to stay home with their kids due to school closures.
“People must be able to focus on our community’s health — slowing the virus’s spread — and not on economic survival,” state Senate Housing Committee Chair Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, said in a statement calling for state and federal moratoriums o