which left many people like alexys hatcher in a precarious situation.one of the first in the state to be evicted. she had been a manager of a shoe store, which closed during the pandemic. she loster income anfell behind on her rent. court documents for her eviction case show hatcher filed the necessary cdc declaration saying she faced homelessness. still, this week, a judge allowed for the eviction to move forward. >> effectively, what happened with alexys was, the cdc moratorium was still there. it didn't go away. but the texas courts decided that the cdc order no longer applied in texas, as crazy as that is. they started allowing landlords to evict people at will. >> in texas, you have one of the first states to challenge the cdc moratorium, and successfully so. >> narrator: throughout the pandemic, emily benfer was tracking how states were handling evictions. >> much of a tenant's experience during the pandemic was completely dependent upon the zip code that they lived in. whether or not you stayed in that home depended almt entirely upon whether or

call on the separate line but i wanted to play part of the film where we hear from the woman alexis hatcher and her situation. >> moratorium on convictions is unconstitutional. the judge ruled while individual states have the power to put such restrictions in place the federal government does not. >> and then separately the texas supreme court began allowing infections to move forward which left many people alike alexis hatcher in a precarious situation. she became one of the first in the state to be evicted. she had been a manager of na shoe store which closed during the pandemic. she lost her beincome and fell behind on her rent. >> court documents show hatcher filed the necessary declaration still this week the judge allowed the eviction to move forward. to>> what happens with alexis and when the cdc moratorium was put there it didn't go away but texas of course decided that that cdc were no longer applied in texas. as crazy as that is. they started allowing landlords toevict people at will . >> in texas you have one of the first states to challenge thesucdc moratorium and successfully s

host: bonnie bertram, we see alexis hatcher trying to get a place to stay. many places did she have to bounce between before she found a longer-term rental situation? guest: she first had to find a hotel for her daughter and herself to stay in. there was that round of phone calls. in two weeks later, another round of phone calls to around of apartment buildings. it is a full-time job for these people to do the application for rental release and reorganize their life in that scramble. there is another tenant way profiled in new jersey, who like a lot of people during the pandemic, worked an overnight shift. she fell behind in her rent and was evicted. you can see her struggle, where she is trying to get organized, she is trying to get some rest, but she is sleeping most of the day because she has been up all night. i do not know if you have ever worked an overnight shift, but it is really disorienting and hard to do things that other people take for granted, because you are struggling to stay awake. this woman, every single thing is a challenge for her. zoom

your door and what judge you appeared before. >> and bonnie bertram, the narrator saying that alexis hatcher, one of the first evicted under texas law, how did you connect with her and were able to be there when the day she was being essentially evicted? >> so, we have been in touch with mark milton, who is an amazing attorney in dallas, and he was a tax attorney. but he quickly realized that tenants had so many questions about how to navigate the moratorium on evictions. he assembled a group of dozens of attorneys who are all volunteering and working pro bono to help answer peoples questions. so, we had been in touch with mark and mark said, there is an eviction going on right now because alexis was the first person in texas to be evicted under this weird gap where alexis thought she was covered by the cdc moratorium, right? because if you are a renter, you hear oh, there is a cdc moratorium, no evictions. and so, she figured she was covered. texas, as emily benfer said and mark referred to in the piece, texas supreme court did not extend an emergency order. the emergency order was the inst