ACTIVISTS who spent five days camping out on the steps of the US Capitol building to demand that the government extend its ban on tenant evictions have welcomed a decision by the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to extend it until early October.

Last Thursday, Congresswoman Cori Bush wrote to her Democratic colleagues calling on them to do everything possible to extend the federal eviction moratorium after the House of Representatives adjourned for the summer before voting on the proposal.

“I have been unhoused and evicted,” Ms Bush said in her letter.